Wedding and the New Year

Happy New Year! I have been largely absent from blogging for the past 8 months or so because I was busily planning my wedding, which took place a couple weeks ago on January 5th. Part of what kept me so busy planning for the wedding was that we decided to design and make many of the details for our wedding ourselves. We worked together to "diy" our save the dates, invites, place cards, and programs. I also made the bouquets for myself and my bridesmaids out of paper.
Here are some photos of the invites, which included tree illustrations done by me, and a custom ink stamp that we designed from one of my tree drawings:

Also, here are a couple photos of the bouquets I made. They are based off a paper flower pattern that I found at ellinee.com.
The bridesmaid bouquets were white and black.

My bouquet was gold and white.

New Work: Four Seasons

I have not been a reliable blogger lately at all. Apologies. But I have some new work to share, so I'm back! I made these four pieces as a short series inspired by the four seasons. I've been playing more with watercolor lately and it has been pretty fun.
"Winter":

"Spring":

"Summer":

"Autumn":

And here they are installed in a recent show that I took part in:

Big Move

I have been really negligent about posting for the last few months. But there is a good reason why. I've moved out of Brooklyn and back to my home state of Massachusetts. For a while my life was a lot like this all the time:

I am excited to be back in the Boston area and I am beginning to feel settled in. The move went well and included a lot of incidents like this one:

I am happy to have a bright, sunny new space to work in as well:

I am in fact going to go sit there and work on some new projects right now.

Distance

My recent move has been a strange experience for me, filled with a lot of conflicting emotions. I am excited for all the new things I am starting in Boston but I am also sad to have left behind people and places that I love. Today I decided to take some time and make a simple accordion-fold artist book about moving. I titled the book "Distance."

Recent Private Commission

I recently finished this piece for a family in New York. It is three separate drawings on paper that will be framed and hung together as one piece. The imagery came from a personal source provided to me by the family. I really enjoyed working on this project, especially the challenge of making three drawings that would work together as one. I can't wait to see how it looks framed and installed in their house! (You can click on the above picture to view it a bit larger).

Moving and Etsy Sale

This blog has been hibernating for the past coupe of months... apologies for my neglect. There is a really good reason for it, though! In the coming month I am moving out of New York City, where I have lived for the past 10 years, and back to my hometown of Boston, MA. I am getting really excited about this move, but it is also taking up a lot of my extra time and energy. I hope once I get settled there to be able to update again with more projects and things I have been working on. I am currently working on a commission that I am excited to share once it is finished.

Also, getting ready for my move I am having a big sale in my Etsy store until June 1st. Everything is 20-30% off, which is a really great deal (I think)! The store will probably be closed for a good part of June while I am moving, so if you want prints or cards, get them now while they are super cheap! lauramccabe.etsy.com

Three images from my new "Swarm" series

About a month ago I started working on a new series. I have always enjoyed drawing multiples of things. So I decided to focus on drawing some "swarms" and make them into a little series. I have completed the first three images, and here they are:



The backgrounds of these images are watercolor wash, which is a new way of working for me, and I am really enjoying experimenting with it. I've always used gouache before, and it is interesting to see what different effects I can get from watercolor.
I have more images planned and will continue to work on this series for the next few months. I hopefully will have these available as prints in my Etsy shop soon as well.