Unique & Colorful Artwork by Artist Emily Lupita
“Butterfly #1” ink drawing and color illustration by Emily Lupita.
Sending happiness,
-Emily Lupita
Website & Blog: http://www.EmilyLupitaStudio.com
“All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.” – M.C. Richards
All content © Emily Lupita Studio 2014
Happy New Year from Emily Lupita Studio!
Sending out wishes for a happy and prosperous new year!
I love writing New Year resolutions & this year I decided to create a fun poster to display some of them here in my studio.
Sharing here the steps to make one of your own…I’d love to see what you create!
New Year Resolutions Poster Project:
#1: Find a picture or photograph that you love. (I used one of my landscape paintings I made of San Cristobal.)
#2: Divide the picture into 9 squares. Fade out the middle square and four of the corner squares.
#3: Write the year in the middle and your resolutions in the corners. Play around with the fonts & colors.
#4: Put up your inspirational poster somewhere you’ll see it every morning and visualize your dreams coming true!
Happiness,
-Emily Lupita
Connect with Emily Lupita
New Artist’s Alphabet Book Now Available: http://www.etsy.com/listing/169174662/art-book-the-artists-alphabet-26-words
Amazon.com Artist’s Alphabet Book Page: http://www.amazon.com/The-Artists-Alphabet-Encourage-Creativity/dp/0615887406
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This Week @ Emily Lupita Studio:
An exciting time in the studio…The Artist’s Alphabet books are here!
It has been an amazing artistic journey to get to this point and I’m so happy with how the books turned out. Sending many thanks to everyone who has encouraged and supported me along the way!
The books have now been sent out to my wonderful group of Kickstarter backers and should be arriving in the mail by the end of the week. I hope you enjoy all the bright colors in your special book packages!
A huge thank you goes out to my mom, Juana Maria, for spending time here at the studio to help me wrap, package and mail all the books. It was definitely a two artist job…and we had fun talking & listening to music together while we got it all done. Sharing here a photo of the dining room table during our book wrapping party.
How to Order:
I have a limited number of signed books available for sale in my Etsy Shop. I’m happy to dedicate the book to someone special as well, just let me know in the “notes to seller” section at checkout.
This is the direct link to order a signed & dedicated copy of the book:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/209702057/art-book-the-artists-alphabet-26-words
Once my supply here in the studio runs out, the book will remain available for sale on Amazon.com, but those books ship directly from the warehouse, so they don’t pass through my hands and won’t be signed or dedicated.
I’m excited for my books to make their journeys out into the world.
Sending wishes for a beautiful week ahead,
-Emily Lupita
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This Week at Emily Lupita Studio
The final few days of my Kickstarter project are here! (The project ends on October 31st.) I’m truly grateful to the 55 amazing people who’ve backed my project so far. I now have 93% of the total pledges needed to fund The Artist’s Alphabet book. Almost there…
This has been one of the busiest weeks here at my studio and also one of the very best. I’ve been enjoying the time I spend each day working on finishing up all the details of the book design. These are two screen shots from my latest layout to give you an idea of how the book will look when finished. (I also shared a few different screen shots on my Emily Lupita Studio Facebook page earlier this week if you’d like to see more.)
I added a colorful first letter to the title word on each definition page as well as a fancy text divider underneath to better balance out the spacing . I still have a few more definitions to write because it takes me awhile to think of how I want to phrase each definition & I go through so many drafts for each word.
The book cover is coming along nicely. I still need to format it to the printer’s specifications, but this is the latest design I’m working with as of today:
It’s hard to believe my Kickstarter project will end on October 31st, only four days from now. It’s been an incredible journey so far and I’m excited to see where the next four days will take me.
Sending you all many heartfelt thanks for your support & encouragement,
-Emily Lupita
Kickstarter Project Link:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/835782441/the-artists-alphabet-an-art-book-by-emily-lupita
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Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/emilylupitastudio
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This Week at Emily Lupita Studio
Week 4 of my month-long Kickstarter project begins today. I had 7 wonderful people back my project in the third week and now have 60% of the total pledges needed to fund my art book project.
It has been a joy designing the book pages and receiving such great encouragement & support from my incredible group of backers. I’m still hopeful that the remaining 40% of pledges needed will find their way to my project before October 31st.
I designed this special “Thank You!” card especially for my awesome backers. I have it all prepared to send to the print shop on November 01st, hoping my optimistic actions might somehow help give my project that extra boost of positive energy needed for it to succeed in the final week.
This is another hopeful design I made this week, “A Note of Thanks.” I love how the paintings & letters flow together to create a bright & colorful thank you card. This might be another option for my special backer cards – or perhaps I’ll try to create a combination of the two designs.
I’ve been working on the letters for such a long time – now that they are all finished I’m really enjoying the process of combining them into words & special designs. Here’s another I made as an update to my project page.
Thanks for all your encouragement. One more week…
-Emily Lupita
Kickstarter Project Link:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/835782441/the-artists-alphabet-an-art-book-by-emily-lupita
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This Week at Emily Lupita Studio
Week 3 of my month-long Kickstarter project has started and a huge thank you goes out to the 11 wonderful people who backed my project in the second week. I now have 47% of the pledges needed to make the book a reality. But I still need to raise more than half of my funding goal in the next two weeks, so the butterflies in my stomach are growing.
I had a beautiful moment this week when I finally finished the alphabet poster, something I’ve been slowly working toward for years. Each letter represents an original watercolor painting & design process that was a labor of love. The day I finished it also happened to be my 36th birthday, so I felt like this was a good sign I’m on the right path.
The definition pages are slowly emerging – I’m all the way to “hope.” I’m writing my own definitions for each word based on the traditional Oxford Dictionary, but modified with my own feelings & experience with the word. Two of my favorite definition pages so far are Dreamer & Friendship.
Thanks for all your encouragement!
-Emily Lupita
Kickstarter Project Link:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/835782441/the-artists-alphabet-an-art-book-by-emily-lupita
Connect with Emily Lupita
Gallery & Artwork Shop: http://emily-lupita-studio.artistwebsites.com
Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/emilylupitastudio
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This Week at Emily Lupita Studio
I’m entering Week 2 of my month-long Kickstarter project here at Emily Lupita Studio. I’m so grateful to the 13 people who backed my project in its first week & to those who’ve shared the project link with others. It’s exciting to see that I have almost 30% of my funding goal, but nerve-wracking to know I have a whole 70% to go in the next 3 weeks in order to make the book a reality.
I’ve been working hard on finalizing the letter designs for the book. I have two new designs – “E” is for Encouragement and “I” is for Imagination. They make me smile!
I’ve also started designing the definition pages that will face the letter pages. I made mark ups using a book of the same size to be able to format the layout correctly. Here are the first two pages – a glimpse of what the book will be like when finished.
I’m just praying the Kickstarter campaign will be successful so I will be able to send the finished book files to the printer in November.
Thanks for all your encouragement!
-Emily Lupita
Kickstarter Project Link:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/835782441/the-artists-alphabet-an-art-book-by-emily-lupita
Connect with Emily Lupita
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Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/emilylupitastudio
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This Week at Emily Lupita Studio
This week I finished my Artist’s Alphabet series! I’ve been working on the paintings & pairing them up with the letters to create these designs for years now & it is wonderful to see them all together.
I’m especially excited start collecting these designs into the book I dreamed up all those years ago when I first started sketching The Artist’s Alphabet out in my art journal. I look forward to seeing where this project takes me next!
Wishing you every happiness,
-Emily Lupita
Connect with Emily Lupita
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This Week at Emily Lupita Studio
This week at Emily Lupita Studio I created a few collages to include on my new “About” page here on my blog.
It was a joy putting them together & finding the best way to match my paintings with the photos.
To check out my new “About” page, click here:
https://emilylupitastudio.wordpress.com/about/
Wishing you every happiness,
-Emily Lupita
Connect with Emily Lupita
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Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/emilylupitastudio
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This Week at Emily Lupita Studio
This week at Emily Lupita Studio I’m finishing up my designs for my new book, The Artist’s Alphabet. I’ve made it all the way to “W” is for Wonder.
This book has been almost a decade in the making & it truly is wonderful to see all the paintings merging with the letter designs. The whole thing is really coming together…I’m excited!
Wishing you every happiness,
-Emily Lupita
Connect with Emily Lupita
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Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/emilylupitastudio
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New Painting: “Lupita Aya Sofya”
“Lupita Aya Sofya” has been months in the making and it gives me such joy to see it all finished. This painting features three sets of color combinations, more than my usual two, making it extra bright.
I also added a layer of shimmery gold to each color in the robe & halo, and around the flower petals in the background as well. I love how the gold makes the painting sparkle in the light.
This painting was inspired by the mosaics in the Aya Sofya (Hagia Sophia) in Istanbul, Turkey. For more background on the mosaics, check out my blog post from July 30th.
“Lupita Aya Sofya”
Irodori watercolor & Sakura ink on Canson watercolor art board
by Emily Lupita Plum-Guclu, 2013
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Where do you paint?
My favorite place to paint is next to the window in my studio room in the mornings. I play uplifting music, open the windows, make a nice tea, and spend some quality time with my colors to start my day. My dogs love it, too, and sit at my feet or up on the arm of the sofa to watch me paint.
Sometimes I enjoy going outside to sit on my rose garden bench to paint. I like to watch the world going by and it is always a good way to meet new neighbors. My mom and I are planning to go to the Botanical Garden to paint the next time she comes for a visit. Can’t wait!
Where do you like to paint? Do you ever go to coffee shops or parks or mountain tops to be inspired?
Happiness,
-Emily Lupita
I have a new online gallery…hurray!
Creating it has been a true labor of love for some time now, so I’m delighted to see it this morning fully up and running. There are still several paintings and a few collections I need to add to it, but I’m excited with how it has turned out so far. I especially love how I can group the paintings into different collections, as well as have one collection showing all paintings together.
This gallery also serves as my new artwork shop. I’ve partnered with Fine Art America, the premiere artist support company online, to do all the printing. Because they have such a wide network, orders can be placed & shipped world-wide and products include professional artist prints in a range of paper (like watercolor, rag & velvet), prints on canvas, metal & acrylic, greeting cards and even artwork prints on iphone cases. (I’m especially excited about getting a new iphone case with my artwork on it!)
They also offer a wide range of framing & matting options in a variety of sizes, so you can customize the painting to fit where it will hang. The best thing is they have full customer service for buyers and a money back guarantee on all products. I’m so very grateful for their partnership with all of this amazing support and look forward to the places this new path will take me.
I’d love for you to visit the new gallery & post a comment below.
http://emily-lupita-studio.artistwebsites.com/
Happiness,
-Emily Lupita
This week as I reflect back on my travels, I am so grateful for a very special journey I took with my mother to her hometown of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. We went there to visit my mother’s sister, my Tia Mago, and her brother, my Tio Lito. It was such a pleasure to witness my mother laughing & talking for hours over good food with her brother & sister. She hadn’t seen them in so many years, but they seemed to just pick up right where they left off. I also got to spend time with my cousins & their families on this journey, meeting many of them for the first time, and really cherish the days we spent together.
I especially love this photo of the three siblings at a candy vendor just as they discover their favorite sweet treat from childhood. “Dad used to make this!” they all three said, pointing to the pile of candy at the same time. “Remember?” And they started to share memories of my grandfather making candy in big copper pots. My Tia Mago placed a piece in my hand and said, “And now you can share this memory, too.” What a beautiful moment.
Not too long after we visited, my Tio Lito passed away, may he rest in peace. My mother told me that when she heard the news of his passing, she was overwhelmed with gratitude that we were able to go and visit, that she had these precious days to remember and photos of us together to treasure. I felt the same way.
This journey to Mexico remains as one of the most heartfelt trips I’ve ever taken. From it I am reminded that travel can give us the greatest gift of all…time together with the people we love.
My mom, Juana Maria Plum, sent me this beautiful painting as a thank you card. It was such a joy to open my mailbox and find this treasure! My mom is a master artist and is the inspiration for my own artwork. She taught me everything I know about color, beauty and form. She paints across mediums and is skilled in oils, acrylics and watercolor…not to mention wood carving, pottery, sewing (and more!). I am forever grateful that the talented Juana Maria is also my mom & master artist.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/113858150/4-x-6-custom-name-set-of-4-lupita?ref=shop_home_active
I posted a new item to my online art shop for custom name combinations of my Lupita Artist Alphabet Series. You can design any combination of letters you like. Some ideas are to spell names for a child’s room, create a family name series for your entryway, or for a reminder sign for the day on your stairway, like “love” or “hope.”
Full details are listed in my Etsy shop at this link:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/113858150/4-x-6-custom-name-set-of-4-lupita?ref=shop_home_active
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein
