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graphic black and white inspiration ONE / TWO / THREE / FOUR / FIVE / SIX / SEVEN / EIGHT / NINE / TEN / ELEVENdon’t make me choose! I love the graphic punch and they both go with everything....

started the week (ended the weekend?) at a fun brunch with my friend claire. it was a ‘PJ’s, Pumps & Pearls’ theme so obviously I took the theme seriously and ran with it. instead of pearls, I wore a couple...

spring 2019 if you haven’t figured it out yet, my color this spring is orange. it’s fun to wear and fun to paint. I picked up this super comfortable shift dress from mango and paired it with an extended jane...

ONE / TWO / THREE / FOUR / FIVE / SIX / SEVEN / EIGHT / NINE like I mentioned before, I’ve been pinning all the orange and yellow and pink while we’re waiting for spring to finally show up...

hey there! my hope with this lately thing is to check in weekly and share what I’ve been working on, like a recap of sorts, for you to enjoy but mostly so I can remember. 😬 working on my line...

so, it’s been awhile… … like a little over a year now since I quit my job and started working for myself. I did a lot of painting and experimenting but not so much business. I told myself when I...

pilfering green paint chips like it was my jobcardart 18 will go down as my very favorite cardart ever. it's heavy on the green but I don't care because the idea came to me way back in october, I thoroughly...

spring palette / elizabethcraneswartz.com I logged into my site and saw this post draft from last year. I pinned all of the above in february 2018 and have been pinning a slew of similarly colored images this february. I guess...

my youngest had a field trip with her arts administration class to Mass MoCA this past saturday. north adams, massachusetts is about a 2.5-hour drive from providence so it only took two seconds to decide to meet her there. I'm...

in my search for studio space, I stumbled upon a few things that sounded like they might be fun to try - like figure drawing. I haven't done this since college and I was a little worried 1) it would...

photo by erin mcginnphoto by erin mcginnphoto by erin mcginn it was a surreal experience having someone watch and photograph me while working but I'm so so so happy I was able to have erin mcginn take these and so...

four trips to home depot, three trips to IKEA, two trips to the storage unit, one gallon of white paint and my studio is done. I've been aiming for the last week of march as a goal to be completely...

last month my friend faith provencher, of design fixation, came by our place and took some photos for houzz. that piece is live now and we're so excited to share it!! not surprisingly, fenway inserted herself in most of the...

now that I'm working for myself, I've been planning not only what I want to do, but how to get it done and figuring out who I can ask for help and guidance. top on that list is my personal...

I've been slowly updating my new studio - getting things out of storage and figuring out what I still need. I sold my original setup after we sold our house. they were makeshift things from IKEA that I never really...

I've worked remotely for the last two years but commuted down to new haven on mondays. I'm not a morning person so it's hard for me to get up and make that early train. on top of that, I have...

full disclosure: I wrote this post over a year late. cardart 17 was a struggle not only because I was laid up after my foot surgery and had to do all my supply sourcing online, but because I was completely...

once my father launched his challenge to us all last summer, I started wondering if I could find a way to make things again. I spent the fall and winter fantasizing and then a couple of weeks ago I found...

we wrapped up 2017 and kicked off 2018 in florida with my family to celebrate my father's 80th birthday and great fun was had by all.we revisited my father's question to all of us last summer - what's one thing...

between the years 1990 and 1994 I graduated from college (see above), moved to NYC, worked at GQ, got engaged, got married, moved to upstate NY and had my first child. (go ahead, do the math...) it was everything I wanted....