In The Studio Alongside Jen Garrido

Contributor postal service yesteryear Lisa Solomon

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today nosotros larn to peek within the lovely studio of san francisco creative individual jen garrido. she's a multi-talented busy lady who makes her work, runs her modification ego companionship jenny pennywood, as well as is mom to the nearly adorable footling one. nosotros met upwards the other morning time because we're starting a collaboration as well as it thought i'd portion her infinite amongst you lot poppytalk readers.

: delight call five artists/creatives/makers that you lot know personally who you lot honour inspiring and influencing ?

I've got 4. Right now, I'm actually inspired yesteryear makers/creative people/artists who are thinking BIG as well as growing their concern as well as doing several dissimilar kinds of things at once -- as well as thence iii people I know that I'm excited yesteryear are Olivia San Mateo of Olive Route Design as well as Letterpress as well as Kelsey Sheofsky of Shelter Co. as well as Serena Mitnik Miller of General Store. As far every bit fine artists, I'm ever inwards awe of my friend as well as sculptor, Vincent Fecteau -- I intend his exercise as well as mental attitude every bit an creative individual is inspiring.

:: And five artists/creatives/makers that you lot don't know but love from afar?

:: the final affair or ii you lot read that had you lot mark or Canis familiaris earring pages?

Sadly, they are self help books that I'd rather non name

:: your peak five tools/supplies

sketchbooks amongst watercolor newspaper interior sheets, galkid icon medium, acrylic gouache, florescent acrylic paint, dark ink

:: a textile or thought you lot nearly desire to endeavor but haven't yet

Clay, spray pigment as well as aureate leaf

: call a vocal or album you lot volition grow quondam with

Commonwealth of the Bahamas Barchords

:: favorite beverage?

ICE TEA

:: how many studio spaces accept you lot had ? is this electrical flow i your fav ? why or why non ?

I've had seven studio spaces. It is a necktie betwixt 2 spaces. I was an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts for several years as well as the studio was small-scale but the surroundings was beautiful but the drive was long as well as I loved the community. And the i I accept at i time where I accept my ain infinite as well as it is quiet, individual as well as about home.

:: what is crucial for you lot to accept inwards lodge for your studio solar daytime to be productive?

All supplies postulate to survive out for me to simply grab.

proof of the H2O ice tea habit

:: do you lot accept a studio routine? if as well as thence volition you lot portion it amongst us?

The alone routine I accept is to larn an H2O ice tea earlier I larn to studio ... other than that, every solar daytime is a mix of reckoner work/design/corresponding, icon as well as drawing. I motility inwards betwixt all iii of those things all solar daytime long.

: is at that topographic point a identify that you've been that actually resonates amongst you?

Any identify that is hot amongst a puddle as well as adept friends.

:: where accept you lot felt the nearly "at home"

IN LA at the beach when it is hot

: dancing? pro or con?

PRO inwards individual or amongst family, when really boozer as well as feeling gratis as well as a CON when I experience pressured to allow issue but don't experience issue ... brand sense.

thank you lot jen ! such a process to encounter your adorable lite filled infinite !

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lisa solomon is a mixed media creative individual who lives inwards oakland, CA amongst her husband, immature daughter, a i eyed pit bull, a french bulldog, a cross-eyed cat, a iii legged cat, as well as many many spools of thread. she moonlights every bit a college professor, a graphic designer, as well as is a partner inwards MODify/d a crafty biz that up/cycles as well as re/purposes discards from the fashion industry.