Blue

Screenprinting is easily one of the most frustrating and incredibly complicated processes of art I've ever practiced. I've only barely scratched the surface of how to use this medium, but this is my latest project. 

A gift for my mother, this piece was really special to me. She hails from the east coast, in Massachusetts, where these buds flourish! We kind of both have a thing for hyrdrangeas, and I created this specifically with her in mind. So this one's for you Maggie! And you'll be getting your actual print of it sometime very soon :) 

"Blue" by Kelly Lawler

I've also decided to make this print available for sale in an upcoming art show that I'm a part of planning. 

2nd Annual: The Art Show will be held at Heartland Community Church on April 15th, this print any many other amazing pieces of art will be sold for CHEAP, all for the good of a non-profit "Artist's Helping the Homeless," who is based out of Kansas City. 

Kelly

ps: Happy Baseball Season! 

gradiest mesh wha?

Trying to spruce up the ole portfolio, for a specific job I'd love. Its the kind of job you want so bad, you'd almost rather not apply because then you can still hope that you would have gotten it. Dream. Job.

 Check out a birthday card I made two years ago... Been nitpicking it for the past couple hours and trying to perfect before I send some things in. Critiques? Ideas? Start over? Let me have it! The lettering is done by creating lots of tiny versions of that specific letter, but in the space of that specific font's stroke. (Aka, the letter "H" is made up of a bunch of tiny h's)

Happy Birthday Mark!! (two years ago... )

Kelly

pintaycolorea

One of my favorite bloggers, who my bud Liz introduced me to, featured this artist about a month back. But ever since I've been pretty mesmerized by her style. She's been published in International Magazines, famous blogs, and many others... but gosh this girl (Inés Iglesias Heras) is great. Check out one of my favorites from this amazing illustrator/designer extraordinaire.

http://www.pintaycolorea.es/

Is this amazing or what? Tell me what you think. If you check out her site...I'm also completely obsessed with her other overlapping pieces. The lines... oh my heart.

Dinner tonight: free banquet food. No cooking for me today!

Kelly

Thanks, Mr. Butcher

Steak, garlic roasted brussels, carrots, red onion, and golden potatoes, sprinkled with thyme. This recipe was one of my own...not very complicated at all!

Steak & Veggies by me.

Since I'm a poor college student with no grill, and it snowed today, (believe it or not!) I cooked this steak inside. Funny story about the steak... I was browsing around the meat counter at the grocer this week, and the butcher asked to help. Who knew that if you told a butcher you were looking for deals he'd give you free steak!? Well, it was incredibly delicious and I really loved making my own steak-- so much more affordable!

I roast these vegetables in a 400f oven for about ten minutes, with olive oil, thyme, and a fair share of salt and pepper. I might have sprinkled some minced fresh garlic in there too. The steak: rub down with steak seasoning and sear the outside, turn down heat and cook to your preference. Yummy and no sauce needed!

Kelly 

Real Simple: good food & good design

Welcome to Eat&Design. 


I can't wait to share good looking design, and yummy food with you. This weekend I spent making over 50 pages in a publication I am working on, and had a lot of great food that I made for myself on my new attempt to stop spending money eating out. 


So much graphic design and food in one weekend inspired me to blog about it. So here goes...


Real Simple. One of my favorite magazines of all time. Not only did their first issue ever catch my eye with its clean typography, and beautiful photography, but its guides to life, funny stories, random facts, and great recipes have kept my attention. My mom and I often fight over copies of backed issues. 


This week I decided to try a new recipes from their very pages: Huevo's Rancheros. 

Huevo's Rancheros by Real Simple. Check out original recipe here: http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/huevos-rancheros-00000000055009/index.html

This stuff was tasty. And super different than anything I've ever made before. Simply brush corn or flour tortillas lightly with olive oil, bake for about ten minutes on 400f. Mix cumin & lime juice into some black beans, and serve it all up with fried eggs, feta cheese, avocado, red onion, cilantro and salsa. 

My tip: use pico de gayo instead of salsa....thats what I was wishing mine was the whole time. But this was seriously tasty. Glad I tried it. (And sooo cheap! 'Cept the feta)

Okay, moving on... Design. Here's a sneak peek for all you MNU students out there. This is page three of our yearbook coming out on May 2nd. Illustration by Ryan House... 

In case the title of the page is confusing you, this year's book is called "Home." Each division of the book is a room of a house, with feature stories called Real Rooms, which are features on the actual spaces around campus that we will remember for the rest of our lives. A special thank you to Ryan House, for creating five original illustrations, and beautiful cover art for this project!

I'll leave you with this quote, that has inspired me to never get lazy on designs:

"Try to make every assignment better than the last. When you finish a project, look at it, hard. scrutinize, nitpick. be critical. do more. do better. don't become complacent. ever. complacency is death."

Kelly