The Art Dream

I began to draw at a very young age, I used to admire my older sister's work and often copied from her. Later I got into comics and learned from observing the artwork and drawing my own characters.
I then went to SVA in Manhattan for art school where I had a blast learning from all of my amazing professors.
Later when I became an art teacher I wanted to come up with unique projects for my kids so I began dabbling in crafts. It just grew and grew and I discovered my love for arts and crafts.

Barely, I've made so many things over the years! But some of my first projects were pop-up illustrations and cards. I loved cutting out all of the layers and combining them to create the illustration. It was so amazing to make them three dimensional too.

As much as I try to come up with ideas on my own it's difficult without inspiration. Instagram is a great place to connect with other artists and teachers, I find a lot of inspiration through them.

I try to keep everything in a storage unit I bought at Target, it has draws and cubes to keep bins, of course my collection of stuff keeps growing and growing but I generally am an organized person and like to have all of my materials within reach.

Hm I used to listen to music more often while working when I was younger, but generally I love my Colbie Caillat, I can listen to the same songs on repeat forever.

I generally love to make kids crafts, I find them so charming, innocent and cute of course, it makes me so happy to see when the children are happy and excited. I'm a big kid at heart and I intend to stay that way!

Thanks to Cut Out + Keep for giving me this awesome opportunity, I hope my ideas reach some people out there and bring a smile to their faces!