How does Lindsay create her artwork?Updated 5 months ago

The process is a bit different, depending on the type of art!

Lettered Art: Fun fact – Lindsay started her journey in calligraphy in the fifth grade when her mom enrolled her in a summer enrichment program that offered a calligraphy class! Here we are, thirty years later! On older pieces of lettered art, like Heritage, she used a calligraphy pen to create the lettering, scanned the paper in, and then prepped the artwork for print in Photoshop. Now, thank God for iPads, the more recent lettered pieces like Come on In are created digitally with an Apple Pencil in an app called Procreate. After the design is created, she brings the file into Photoshop to finalize and add whatever background color(s) she likes before saving the finished artwork.

For the typography pieces: like Welcome Here, Lindsay either creates those in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Lindsay went to collage and received a degree in graphic design and Visual Communications, and it's still her second love and passion!

For paintings and sketches/drawings, Lindsay typically uses acrylic paints (although the Abstract Minis were created using oils) and no paint is off limits – it doesn't matter how cheap or how expensive the paint is, she loves it just the same! She usually creates her paintings on small, 12x16 illustration board or canvas panels, so that it can be scanned in on a super quality scanner. (She uses an EPSON Expression 10000XL – which took years to save up for!). If she happens to paint larger (her favorite, but harder to reproduce), a photographer will take a quality photograph of it. (This is usually how we handle in-person vintage finds as well). Then, the file is color corrected and finessed, formatted to the correct size.

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