Artist & Aesthete

This post contains affiliate links, which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Let’s say you’ve recently gotten the big pack of Tombow Dual Brush Pens, how do you organize them? I’ve had mine for a while, but I just got a replacement set (perks of being a part of the design team.) and wanted to do show you how I organized them! Color Designation

Hey my friends, I have a fun product review to share with you today! Have you heard of Totally-Tiffany? Totally-Tiffany is a company that makes creative storage solutions for organizing craft products and supplies, and I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined their Blogging Troop! This means that I’ll have the opportunity to try out their products and share my reviews with my readers, YOU. Also, according to FTC regulations, this also means that I must disclose to you that I

Hey guys! This is a project I originally shared on Tombow’s instagram account, but as you know I’m a huge space nerd, so I wanted to share it here too. Today I’m  showing you how to make a Lunar Calendar Spread in your bullet journal/planner! Supplies: Planner or Journal. For my planner this year, I’m using a Bloom Daily Planners Dot Journaling Planner. I added one of my Galaxy Girl stickers to the cover to customize it , but I love the marble background too. Tombow Twin Tone

Hey y’all, I wanted to let you know about my latest tutorial for Tombow! DIY Geometric Rainbow Art! I used Tombow’s new Rainbow Twin Tone Markers & Templates by Josie Lewis to create these “watercolor” geometric designs. Using the markers makes this super easy, because they dry a bit faster than regular watercolors, and are super vibrant. Find the full tutorial on the Tombow blog here. #tombow #tutorial #watercolor

This post contains affiliate links, which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase  using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hey everyone! I have a new post up on the Tombow USA blog today: How to paint a Watercolor Constellation Self Portrait! I had so much fun with this project, and I’m really pleased with how it turned out. In the past I’ve always struggled so much with self portraits (w

This post contains affiliate links, which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase  using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hey guys, Today I am unboxing Tombow’s September 2018 VIP Club box! and it has a really cool new product in it! If you want the September box, they have limited quantities available and once they’re sold out they’re gone. so get it now. Alright, let’s get to it: What

This post contains affiliate links, which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase  using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hey everyone! Did you know that you can use Tombow Dual Brush Pens on a Gelli Arts printing plate? I tried it for the first time recently and you totally can! It can take a bit of experimenting to find the right amount of water to use, but it makes for very fun, vibra

This post contains affiliate links, which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase  using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hey y’all! You know how much I love galaxies AND drawing girls, so today I am showing you how to paint galaxy hair. I’ll be using Tombow Dual Brush Pens for a watercolor effect. Supplies: Tombow Dual Brush Pens (I’m using the Galaxy pack) Watercolor Paper Paintbrush +

Hey y’all, today I have a new mini album to share! I love making mini scrapbooks, and it’s already been 2 months since I arrived home from my Alaska trip so I figured it was about time to document it, right? 😉 I had such a great time in Alaska! I used a flip book by Paper House Productions  for the album. I’ve actually had this album base in my stash for 1-2 years now and hadn’t decided on the perfect photos for it until now! It works so well for these. My only complaint is

Hello everyone, My latest post for Tombow USA is live and I wanted to direct you over to it. In the post I am sharing my top 5 tips for sketching in your planner! I doodle on everything (I always drew on my schoolwork as a kid. Thankfully I was homeschooled and my Mom didn’t mind), so obviously my planner is going to be filled with random sketches too, right. I know you would expect nothing less. 😉 Tombow partnered with Bloom Planners to supply those of us on the design team

This post contains affiliate links, which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase  using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Today I wanted to do a little product feature of Tombow’s new XL Blending Palette and show you some of the ways that you can use it! The concept of the blending palette isn’t a new one, they’ve been selling their original Blending Palette for quite a while, but they’v

This post contains affiliate links, which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase  using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hey guys, Today I am unboxing Tombow’s July VIP Club box! and it is AMAZING AND HAS A HUGE VALUE. If you want the July box, they have limited quantities available and once they’re sold out they’re gone. so get it now. Okay, let’s open up the box: What I love about Tom

*This post is sponsored by Walnut Hollow and Tombow USA and includes affiliate links. By purchasing through these links, I may receive compensation at no additional cost to you. With that in mind, I only ever promote products I love and use.* Hey y’all, today’s blog post combines two of my favorite brands: Tombow and Walnut Hollow! I’m no colored pencil expert, but I’ve been trying to learn them more, and lately I’ve been liking the look of colored pencils on wood, so for thi

(*This post includes affiliate links: By purchasing through these links I may receive compensation at no additional cost to you. These links help support my art, and I only ever promote products that I use and love. Hey friends, it’s a new week and time to share a new project for Tombow USA!  I had so much fun with this one. This week Tombow partnered with Archer and Olive to send us all some of their Dot Grid Notebooks. Despite my love for notebooks, I’d never working in a d

Hey guys, I have a new project up on the Tombow USA blog today that I wanted to share with y’all! Wedding season is coming up, and if you’re headed to any this summer, you might need a gift, and that’s where this project comes in. I’m sharing how to create a fun wedding couple doodle, that will make a really cute gift for your friends! In the tutorial I share some tips for sketching out each character to customize them to the wedding couple, as well as how to color them in us

Hey everyone, I wanted to let y’all know that I have a brand new online class out on Big Picture Classes, called Tombow Techniques! This will be my third class taught with Big Picture Classes and I absolutely love working with them to bring you some really fun techniques. What’s the new class? Tombow Techniques! What’s it about? Exactly as the title suggests, this course is all about using Tombow products. I’ve been on the Tombow design team and ambassador team for 3 years no

*This post contains affiliate links.  which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hey everyone, fun project today! I recently took over the Tombow USA Instagram account to share a project using their brand new MONO Edge Highlighters, and I wanted to show y’all too! I discovered a fun way to really make drawings pop by coloring them in with highlig

This post contains affiliate links.  which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase  using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hey guys, today I have another fun project to share with you that I created for Tombow USA! What is it? Double Exposure Art! I really love creating paintings inspired by double exposure photography so I thought I’d show you an easy way to do that too! A double exposu

Hey friends! I wanted to let you know about a new tutorial I have on the Tombow USA blog! This week we partnered with Webster’s Pages who sent me some of their products to try out, including this lovely Travelers Notebook! For my tutorial I am showing y’all how to include maps into your journals. Find the full tutorial on the Tombow blog. #artjournal #tombow #tutorial

This post contains affiliate links.  which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase  using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hey guys, I recently did some watercolor stamping in my journal and after being asked about it a couple of times, I thought I’d show y’all how you can achieve a watercolor effect using stamps and water based markers! For today’s project I’ll be using Tombow Dual Brus