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Through MySoti, t-shirts are now available featuring the vector illustration of my favorite SEA MONSTER:And for the tea snobs like me out there, declare your love with your choice of Green Tea:Herbal Tea:or Black Tea:

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Got slammed by a flu or cold this weekend, which I'm still woozy and recovering from. I did see that Coop of A Patchwork of Flesh received my submission to his online blog gallery of Frankenstein's monster.I assume from my portfolio work, people don't see me drawing dark pieces but I do like to make them. I just like to make the dark aspects subtle. With Frankenstein's monster, the surgical

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While in NYC to attend the Society of Illustrators Student show, I picked up a few items of note. Postcards from the Met are great to use when determining colors in a composition. They had a gorgeous exhibit on 19th and 20th century painters: Vuillard, Mucha, Sargent, Lautrec, Van Gogh, ect. I was very pleasantly surprised and awed by the touches of perfect color in the Degas pastels.I finally

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New tinasweep.com re-design!My simple website re-design and update has just been finalized and launched, due to the not-so-simple coding efforts of my sister, Cas, who is a website developer and designer for Absolute Marketing Group.CSS and I are still on rocky terms, but my sister coded everything to meet the key goals for the design as follows:1) Employing CSS instead of iframes to make the

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Looking back on the 50s and 60s, ads told a story to sell the product through text and illustration. Plenty of the ad stories and illustrations were irreverent to what the product actually did, rather more like fairy tales than ads and at times not even showing the product itself. In this image I wanted to make a tongue-in-cheek ad for an AARP article, illustrated as a dreamy fairy tale inspired

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So much so that I had my squid printed on a t-shirt. The squids in my sketchbook were the results of stress relief from coding my website in CSS. Style Sheets and I are not on friendly terms, unfortunately.And then there's the little pieces I meant to post ages ago. E&M is a situational piece about relationships and showing interaction without explaining the interaction. Also, fun with patterns.I

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I'm a bit in shock right now. Just now I found out that one of my pieces made it into the 2009 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship competition, so this will be my third and final year in the student show.It also means come May 6th through June 6th there will be a large empty space on my wall where this painting used to be:In all, 34 Ringling students' pieces were selected by the jury. I'm

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To my shame the moving in stage of moving in was delayed for a while.While I enjoy my two office rooms, my whistling radiators, my teeny tiny kitchen, the local overly cautious SUV-drivers, the stark winter colors, my eerily quiet neighbors, the relative difference of 65 versus 67 degrees and a thousand other aspects to my new town and apartment, it has not been a smooth transition. My homes have

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The weather's turned, the leaves are all manner of gorgeous colors and I've been able to dress in layers, all simple events that are miraculous after four years in Sarasota.I've moved into an apartment in a building that might have been a hotel, where I can keep my gesso brush in the fridge. This gives me no end of happiness on both accounts.While the website design and update is developing, I

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When you combine baking and painting pictures, the best part is is eating the results. The baked goods, not the painting.

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Recently, I ordered and received a signed copy of Cory Godbey's 28-page paperback illustrated book Ticket."Ticket is a story in pictures and a collection of all things Cory loves to draw. From windmills flying above grassy hills to massive birds landing in Grecian vineyards, Ticket follows the story of a girl, her hat, and the curious events which transpire."Reminiscent of Shaun Tan's The Arrival

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To make a post after a long absence is always a challenge. But it becomes easier after that, or so I hope.I have some work from Printmaking and Illustration left over that I want to get caught up on before anything else."The Beautiful Things" is a series of 20+ chine colle prints, using the same etching on a multitude of different postcard backgrounds. The postcards actually came from a sheet of

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I was waiting to post until I had better news than 'I'm coping with living out of boxes', but no. At least there are plans in motion that should resolve the big box debacle of 2008 relatively soon.Good thing I do have brief highlights of the long road trip I took in May with my mom that I can post.It started with a last visit to Publix for a Publix veggie sub and a bottle of flavored tea. I will

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Tuesday, April 29th was the last day of classes for the year at Ringling, and on Friday the qualifying seniors walked across the stage to receive their diploma cases. (The real diplomas are in the mail.) As my name was called, I was elated and deeply gratified to hear my friends, faculty, administration, and family cheering and clapping for me. In the final hour, it still felt more like everyone

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The last month and more as a senior at Ringling College was a non-stop run of activities here, there and everywhere. Senior thesis and the senior illustration show opening reception preceded the final two days of classes and events, packing and family time, graduation, and finally, moving and sight-seeing. These occurrences sound so benign and casual when listed out, but they were jammed on top

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The opening reception for the show was fantastic! Thank you everyone, new friends and old friends, who made it to Foley's Fine Art for a little food, wine, chatting, and art last night. It was a grand, successful night, and because of your encouragement, I am setting my goals for the future now even higher than I had imagined a month ago. I greatly appreciate the comments and advice everyone gave

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This coming Friday, April 4th, Jane Radstrom and I will be showing at a local gallery opposite a collection of Pablo Picasso's prints and drawings. The opening reception will be from 6 to 9PM at Foley's Fine Art, on Main Street. If you are in the area, please consider stopping by to support us.A huge amount of thanks goes out to all of the people who made this possible for us. Thank you, Thiel

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The brochure and postcard invitations for the Ringling College of Art and Design 2008 Senior Illustration Show are currently being printed. Poster image and title text by Erin McGuire, building diagrams by Andrew Wright, and design by Tina Sweep.

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I'm preparing for a little re-design. I love shoes, especially brown Mudd shoes with chunky heels or Skechers flats with embroidered red and blue and yellow and purple goldfish. But I might love antique AM radios even more.

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My mom had originally given me this recipe, and it's a great one to share. For my Friday critique and bake group, you guys make all the difference.

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It's been posted before, but now Basic Needs is one of 27 Ringling College entries accepted into this year's Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition! I am extremely honored to once again be a part of the show, and I owe many thanks to the Society staff and jury members who made the competition possible. Thanks for all of your hard work especially, Scott!The show will open on

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A little commission I'm working on, based on my Tea illustration.

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My grandfather makes small metal vehicles and other objects, cars, tractors, trains, bulldozers, excavators, et cetera. Last summer, my grandfather and grandmother asked me if I wanted any of the creations, and I came away with the Model T and the little windmill that became the subject of my first woodblock print.This deep copper plate etching was in the acid for about five hours. I used China

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Drypoint copperplate etching.Hint: it's battery-powered by 4 C-size batteries.

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