April - 2021

Process

Process

Today’s prompt: to show you how I make the things. But what do I show- the bridal bouquet floral preservation process- mixing and pouring resin- ink and watercolor? My head is spinning with all the options and I’m suddenly remembering why most artists stop when they’ve gotten good at one thing. For my sake, and probably mostly for your sake, I’m just going to talk about my creative process. (If you’re curious you can see drawing and digital painting, and resin process in my s

From the Archive

From the Archive

Before the city portraits and the resin work, I was doing these 4ft x 3ft animal portraits, with acrylic paint gradient backgrounds, stippled images, and gold leaf. Stippling is a shading technique using small dots in varying degrees of density to give the illusion of darker or lighter shades. It would take forever. And I really only made 1 or 2 a year. At the time each of the animals represented something I was working through in my life: gentleness, grace, playfulness, bala

Focus & Priorities

My main focus at the moment is working to attain some relative balance between work, art, and just general living my life. I do consider myself a workaholic and I’ve recently stepped into a new role at my full-time job + have this pretty cool and booming art side-hustle + just really like spending time with my husband + NEED time for rest and play. In regards to my art “work”- I’ve been trying to focus more on not only making art for sale and commission requests, but also lea

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In Use

In Use

For today’s post, I’m supposed to show you what my art looks like on display, out in the wild. Here's an 8” square resin preservation piece I made from my own wedding bouquet flowers. Sitting on our mantle with this cool snow-globe-like picture frame and some small floral resin cubes. I love the way the sunlight hits it in the afternoons and makes the flowers sort of glow. Behind it is what we used for our guest book at what ended up to be a “micro” wedding due to COVID. We’r

Portrait

Portrait

Here we see the artist in her natural habitat. Please remain quiet as you approach, or you may startle her. Pittsburgh emerging artist, Jen Joyce, has exhibited artwork in group shows including Art All Night and the Fort Pitt Museum. Jen is honored to have worked in collaboration with local businesses some of her favorites have been with Wigle Whiskey, and Kimpton Hotel Monaco Pittsburgh. In 2019 Jen was engaged with Papyrus’ Artist in Residence Program. Jen received her BA i

Small Detail

Small Detail

I often get the request to sign my work. It’s a fair request- why shouldn’t artwork be signed? Prints, original pieces- they all deserve the artist’s mark. But hey- here’s a heads up- each of my pieces ARE signed (with the exception of resin). You don’t have to ask me for it. It’s already there. Take a look around. It’s the sunshine in your hair. It’s the shadow on the ground. It’s the whisper in the wind. Ahem. So sorry- do you ever just burst out into song like a Disney pri

Learning Curve

Learning Curve

Learning to love my own art can be a tricky business. It’s about just as difficult (if not EXACTLY the same thing) as learning to love myself. It’s absolutely true that I am my own harshest critic. I constantly undermine my ability and find it hard to tell myself I’ve done a good job. I’m a perfectionist and I could probably keep working on one thing forever. It’s been such a learning curve for me to stop when I’ve reached “good enough.” I hate my own art hanging in my house-

Work in progress

Work in progress

Here's a little something I’ve been working on. In this image, it’s just in the beginning stages- little lines drawn on papers. What will it turn into? I always hate when people post a work in progress image and then there are days, weeks, months before the final reveal- if there even is one at all. I know I’ve been the culprit of this before. I’m so sorry. Don’t worry- I’ll post the finished piece tomorrow, pinky swear. Wham, bam- almost no patience necessary. You’re welcome

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