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
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This Week @ Emily Lupita Studio:
I’m excited to share that the pre-order listing for The Artist’s Alphabet book is now up in my Etsy Shop. This is cool because if you’d like a copy, you can order it now online and as soon as the books arrive at my studio I’ll ship one out to you. I’ll sign each pre-order copy and will also be happy to dedicate the book to someone special, just let me know who in the “notes to seller” section at checkout.
This is the link: www.etsy.com/listing/169174662/book-pre-order-the-artists-alphabet-26
The book will also be available on Amazon.com in December, but anything ordered directly from Amazon won’t be signed or dedicated since the books ship out directly from the warehouse and won’t pass through my hands.
I was so happy to receive the special “Thank You!” cards I designed this week. I’m really pleased with how they turned out and find myself picking them up over & over and smiling. Now that the cards are here, I’ve started writing my thank you notes to each of my 75 Kickstarter backers. I’ve enjoyed spending time with each note & thinking about each individual person as I write to thank them. I hope my backers love their cards!
I’ve also been continuing my work on the original alphabet paintings. I’ve finished drawing a few more of the canvases – Friendship and Gratitude.
Sending wishes for a beautiful week ahead,
-Emily Lupita
Connect with Emily Lupita
Gallery & Artwork Shop: http://emily-lupita-studio.artistwebsites.com
Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/emilylupitastudio
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EmilyLupitaStudio
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyLupitaArt @EmilyLupitaArt
Website & Blog: http://www.EmilyLupitaStudio.com
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
Connect with Emily Lupita
Gallery & Artwork Shop: http://emily-lupita-studio.artistwebsites.com
Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/emilylupitastudio
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EmilyLupitaStudio
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyLupitaArt @EmilyLupitaArt
Website & Blog: http://www.EmilyLupitaStudio.com
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
Connect with Emily Lupita
Gallery & Artwork Shop: http://emily-lupita-studio.artistwebsites.com
Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/emilylupitastudio
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EmilyLupitaStudio
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyLupitaArt @EmilyLupitaArt
Website & Blog: http://www.EmilyLupitaStudio.com
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
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EmilyLupitaStudio
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyLupitaArt @EmilyLupitaArt
Website & Blog: http://www.EmilyLupitaStudio.com
In my Lupita artist alphabet, B is for beauty.
