Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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A little less than two weeks ago I got an email from Mike. He and his wife have seen photos of Joaquin’s nursery on Flickr, they love it, and would like to know what shades of yellow I used when I painted our room. So I tell him, and I mention that one of the [...]
A few days ago I went through one of my recurring “I suck” lows. I won’t bore you with the details; I’ll just say that this latest episode, combined with some lingering thoughts after writing about my style as an artisan, made me think a lot over something I have put away for about a [...]
Oh dear… Anabel Sousa, creator behind the super chic “Crear es Creer”, has honored me throwing this challenge my way… She’s figured out hers, and now asks me to define which of my artisan works can be considered my “sello personal”. Meaning — as I understand it — which item (or collection of items) has [...]
Here’s something I have come to know about myself over time… I need recognition. I hate to admit it to myself, but it’s the truth. On my first jobs out of college, and then, out of Business School, I got plenty of recognition from all of my bosses, and bosses’ bosses. Life was great and [...]
Although the idea of selling prints of some of my artwork has hit me several times, it is only this weekend that I’ve started to really think seriously about it. Assuming that there’s a market for my stuff, I would like to offer a good quality product. That is, archival inks, heavyweight paper, a professional–looking [...]
Finally ending the story of my experience painting stripes in our baby’s nursery, here I’ll talk about the method I followed to tape the masks for the stripes. As I said earlier, I do have relatively flat walls, so this post is not about how to effectively mask stripes on heavily textured walls. This is [...]
It’s the morning of my 35th birthday, and while I’m getting ready for our second childbirth class, I realize that for the first time ever, today I’m not thinking that today, 35 years ago, I was born. No. This morning, 34 weeks deep into pregnancy (that is, 3-7 weeks away from labor), what I’m thinking [...]
Continuing the story of my experience painting stripes in our baby’s nursery, here I’ll discuss a few more of the decisions that went into making the finished product beautiful, subtle, and exactly what I was looking for. Previously, I talked about color. How I went far beyond my usual way of selecting paint colors only [...]
The process of painting stripes was a lot easier than I expected. It involved a few decisions, a healthy dose of planning, a little algebra, and a bit of color tweaking, but the actual masking and painting of stripes in our baby’s room went a lot faster than all other steps in my very ambitious [...]
Tutorial posts may sound a little pretentious, like I’m some professor of life kind of “expert”, but they serve two purposes: One, I get to brag about something I just made. And two, it’s my way to give back to the Internet for all the times that I’ve searched for “how to” do this or [...]
With the baby bedding finally concluded yesterday around sunset, I took some quick photos of the room and started creating some Photoshop mockups to plan the nursery wall color and mural. After much deliberation today (1 2 3), I think I have a plan I like a lot. Much thanks go to mom and Joey [...]
It’s been an embarrassing long time since I asked Marla to play a game of Illustrator tennis with me. We got excited, agreed to play, got busy with work, then the holidays… I feared my first move… I didn’t want us to start with an illustration similar to the other two I’ve done. I didn’t [...]
Art has always been a big passion of mine. I love to see artistic representations of people, urban scenes, landscapes, rain, water, buildings, light and shadow. “Red Dot on Canvas” doesn’t impress me. You won’t find that kind of art here.
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