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Garrott Designs Travel Sketchbook 2019 Wall Calendar is Here!

Love to Travel?! Me too! As an urban sketch artist, I love travel…
Art Collector Original Watercolor Art Garrott Designs Moleskine Postal Notebooks

Moleskine Messages- Original Art by Mail

Moleskine Postal Notebook I recently got hold of these brilliant…

“Natural Selection” Interior Decor: Pink Stag Beetle

Natural Selection For those who follow my work, you know Natural…
World Trade Center Westfield sketches

Urban Architecture Sketching NYC: World Trade Center

Westfield World Trade Center For my third summer sketch location…

Sketch Journal: Savannah, GA

Nothing helps relax more than traveling to beautiful places and sketching favorite places. I haven't traveled much this year as other projects are taking my attention. However, a little get away for a long weekend to familiar and laid back Savannah, Georgia was a perfect respite between projects. We stayed at a tranquil and historic Bed n Breakfast that was everything we wanted.

Spring Cleaning Like a Designer

It's that time of year when we freshen our spaces, take a deep breath and enjoy a fresh start. Spring cleaning! I love to take this time to wrap up projects

Natural Selection Habitat Decor- Create Your Space

Creating a space you love and a lifestyle that speaks to your natural instincts can be a daunting task. I'm here to help you see that it really is very affordable and not as time consuming as you may think.

New Year’s Resolutions- Design Yourself

WOW, it's been way too long since my last post and I'm really sorry about that! I had such great momentum there for a while. Unfortunately, " you can do it all, you just can't do it all at once"

Design Thinking: Sketching to Solve Problems and Sell Ideas

The Design Thinking process of discovery started for me last spring when I was invited to participate in a co-creatorship to design a commercial home beverage product.

Fashion Burlesque Sketch Night NYC

I love life drawing from a model, especially when those models are curiously fabulous in fashion or costume.Society of Illustrators in New York City offers a weekly dose of fashion and costumed sketch opportunities

Creativity Triggers: “Tea Time”

Have you ever spent the work week anxiously anticipating the weekend so you can get to that personal project you’ve been dying to create? Then, when Saturday morning comes you inexplicably can’t

Successful Creative Habits: Keeping a Sketchbook

From the day you went to art school you were told to always keep a sketchbook with you, to draw every day, to draw from life as often as possible. Do you? Do people you know?

NYC Summer Friday: Sketch the High Line

Summer is so short in New York City, it lasts all of a New York minute. Most Friday's I'm out shopping stores for trends. This past Friday, being my Birthday Friday, I decided to take a little time for myself.

Composition is Everything

You may recall my post last March sketching in the Savannah Bonaventure Cemetery, or at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery last fall. I love sketching on location and I find a sense of natural beauty

Spectrum Fantastic Art: Live! and Active Culture

For the past four years I've been attending Spectrum Fantastic Art Live in Kansas City, MO. This year was the first year I was not participating as an exhibitor. I've made a firm decision not to exhibit