Art can be captivating and can take you to another world. Whether this world is from your own imagination or from a memory you have long forgotten, art has the ability to stir emotion within us and to make us feel something we hadn’t expected to feel. Personally, I believe this is because behind every great piece of artwork, there is a story. A story of creation that gives the piece soul and emotion. And while some would say sharing this story of what goes on behind the curtains takes away the magic, I would argue that that is where [...]

The hardest part of creating my images sometimes is not the costuming or the props... it’s not even finding the location.   Sometimes it is just seeing the image… imagining it before I can bring it out to the light. This has been the case with Daughters of the King in particular. I attribute this to the fact that this series is depicting a set of beliefs, not something concrete that can serve as a jumping off point to begin my story-telling. How do you depict something you can't hold in your hands, and that has the same number of interpretations as there are [...]

Last October, when I shared my image “To Bring Forth Fruit”, I shared the process of how I created this piece but somehow completely forgot to tell you about what inspired me to create the image in the first place! It's kind of surprising to me, because it's one of my favorite things to do when I share a new image. So while I wrote about my editing process, I realized recently that a girl standing in the middle of the forest holding a plant doesn’t really scream the idea of Faith, which might have been confusing for you. Because of this, I decided that I [...]