If you grew up loving our family’s (famous :) pizza… here you go! Click below to download.

For your snow days and holiday enjoyment, a free sewing pattern!

DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS: Click on the image you want to download. The “merry-go-round” gallery will appear. Scroll down (depending on screen size you may not see the full page), look towards the bottom right-hand corner and click on “VIEW FULL SIZE.” A new tab will appear with the image. Click and drag to Desktop.

HVWS Grades 6 – 8 (or public drop-ins!)

***These exercises were written for my current students, assuming they have some background knowledge of how to begin. If you are new to drawing I have been be sharing more detailed “how-to” videos via Instagram.

***HVWS Parents, please allow students to work as independently as possible with the written exercise using their own capabilities, minimizing screen time and allowing a quiet, focused space for drawing.

HVWS Grades 6 – 8 (or public drop-ins!)

***These exercises were written for my current students, assuming they have some background knowledge of how to begin. If you are new to drawing I will be sharing more detailed “how-to” videos via Instagram and possibly YouTube and will update them at the bottom of this post as soon as they are available.

***HVWS Parents, please allow students to work as independently as possible with the written exercise using their own capabilities, minimizing screen time and allowing a quiet, focused space for drawing.

This observational exercise is to be ongoing. The goal is to observe a single tree bud over the next few weeks. Students should complete two 20-minute drawings per week and they may do daily and/or longer drawings if they prefer. They should check on their buds daily and if they notice any changes, they should ideally make a new drawing or even a quick sketch between longer drawing sessions. Even if changes do not seem to occur, students should still make the required two drawings per week. If your buds die off or do not open, simply select a new branch. It’s fun to label the drawings, noting the days (Day 1, Day 5, etc) and students are welcome to make additional observations by writing notes either on the same page or elsewhere. Step 3 should be completed a minimum of twice per week. I may introduce additional exercises as we progress in our work from afar.

Please bear with me while I adjust to teaching in this way! If you have any general “how-to” questions that may also be helpful to others, I welcome you to write them in the comments below. For more specific inquiries regarding your child, you can send me a message via the Contact form on my website, or via the school website under Faculty. Depending on how we progress, I may add some special tabs for each grade. I am happy to send the below image as JPEG via email. I’m testing the lesson format here below for the first time and will edit accordingly.

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For “Public Drop-Ins” (non-HVWS students) visit INSTAGRAM: Click to watch a 5-min video on “Blind Contour Drawing” or an 8-min video on “Tree Bud Study” drawing.

I have been working a new series of illustrations for Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School’s biweekly newsletter. I needed to come up an image for every class at the school, from our three kindergarten classes all the way up to twelfth grade. The challenge was create something that gave both a larger picture of the entire Waldorf curriculum while highlighting a theme from each year. I did my best to represent as many subjects as possible while maintaining some degree of flow from one image to the next. Here are the final results! If you are interested in purchasing some of my work, please keep scrolling down to the prior post. [The below illustrations are currently not for sale.]

I’m still waiting for my dream (paid) illustration job to land in my lap, so if you happen to know what it is… please send it my way! Something not too big, not too small…