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From hand-lettering adventures, to tutorials, to snapshots into my daily life, the Jillian Kaye Art blog has a little bit of everything.

lunar baby shower

My womb-to-tomb BFF Angela had a beautiful little girl this past autumn and, just a month before Luna made her arrival, I was part of a great team of ladies who threw her a lunar-themed baby shower! And when it comes to my part on a team, you KNOW I’m all about paper and design. I haven’t had a post on here about party design in a while but, whenever I have the opportunity to use design for my friends’ and family’s parties — I’m stoked!

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let them eat art

For my art demonstration this year, I decided to do quick portraits (for free!) for whomever wanted one. I ended up doing 30 portraits (about 36-38 faces) in a span of 3 hours! I was confident I’d be able to do it but I had no idea how well it would be received. It was wonderful getting to know the people sitting across from me, learning their names and a little bit about themselves while I studied their face(s).

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write_on 2020: love in the time of corona

How fortunate that this bizarre time of self isolation would coincide with National Lettering Writing Month! For the past few years, I’ve been participating in a letterwriting campaign called #write_on. Each day in April, you write a letter. It’s that simple. Make the envelopes as fancy or as simple as you’d like. I prefer to go all-out.

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how to paint your first mural (or, at least, how I did it)

Painting a mural… where to start? I work on a pretty small scale - both digitally and traditionally - and my painting experience has been limited to a canvas. Nonetheless, it was an itch I needed to scratch. I saw two options: I could tell clients I was offering this service, make up a pricing structure, have a client sign a contract, and hope for the best… or I could practice and make sure this was a service I could confidently offer.

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