Limited Edition

Wow, we can't believe our limited edition print, "Bamboo" is almost sold out!

It's a very limited run of only 20, and we just sold our 19th today!

Looks like we'll have get to work on some new prints...

Sundays and Tulips

Hi guys! I wanted to show you all our newest print, "You're Lovely".

We've had a lot going on this weekend, including an interview we're working on with Sarah from Apothecary Fox--it's an amazing blog, so we're really excited about it! We'll keep you posted.

Hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend!

Owl Patterns

I added this new 8x10 print, "Owl Patterns", to our store yesterday.

I have all of these really fantastic, vintage dress patterns that I have been using in art projects for several years now

(I'll have to get some pictures of my old projects up).

At any rate, I had scanned a few sheets to play around with and came up with these delightful, little birdies.

Hope you like it!

You're So Easy to Love

Happy Friday to you all!

I just wanted to show you guys our latest print, "You're So Easy to Love".

It was inspired by my three favorite guys!

Hope you like it!

Have a great weekend! xoxo

Cut and Paint

We're so happy! Jimmy and I finished our first painting today for Love Sugar, which is for sale in our shop here.

It was so much fun to create it together.

I've included a few pictures to illustrate the process of stencil painting--which is kind of a tricky and lengthy endeavor, but luckily Jimmy has had years of practice.

The first step is to choose or create your image. I chose a design I had previously made in Photoshop, and then I converted the image to b&w using the hue/saturation panel and printed it out on a sheet of transparency film. My design was pretty straight forward, so I didn't have to worry about too may technical details when creating my stencil.

The next part is the least fun, really, and that is to cut your stencil out. We find that using a glass mat makes for the best surface against a very sharp X-acto knife.

After everything was carefully cut out, Jimmy helped me pick a color palette. I was originally thinking of going with a range of browns, but he felt that a light blue, off white and red would be the way to go. I'm really happy with the way this combination turned out.

Jimmy then masks everything off and the painting process begins.

Check out this very short video tutorial on stencil painting:

How To: Stencil Graffiti Art 101 - Watch more top selected videos about: Art, Stencil, Graffiti, Paint, Cut, Adobe_Photoshop, Klaus_Nielsen

Love Sugar Newsletter

I just wanted to let everyone know that we will be launching our newsletter soon. How exciting!

We're giving our subscribers special offers like discounts, freebies and more on prints and such--we'll definitely come up with something special to show our customers just how much we appreciate them!

Click here if you'd like to sign up.

New Projects

I'm really excited because Jimmy and I are planning some very cool collaborations starting this weekend.

We plan on making some stencil paintings on wooden art boards and canvases, so, we'll hopefully have at least a couple of new paintings in our LoveSugar shop by this weekend.

Jimmy has produced some amazing stencil work through the years, so I am so incredibly happy to get to work with him on some new projects together!

This is a picture from our back porch where he has set up his outdoor studio. We're going to pass by Utrecht and see what their Montana paint selection looks like.

Good times, indeed.