Studio 2
Creative community through sustainable art
Category: My Artwork
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Behind the Scenes: Creating an Illustrated Map for the Quad Cities Ecological Corridor
Recently I completed an illustrated a map for the National Wildlife Federation featuring The Quad Cities Ecological Corridor in collaboration with Quad City Arts. I wanted to share a little bit of the story behind this project, successes and challenges.
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Winter Creative Updates: Workshops and Events
Greetings Fellow Creatives! Meg with Studio 2 Makings here dropping a chilly late January line in an attempt to stay warm this winter. We’re almost through. Stay focused, we got this! We’ve got some news on events new and old, a fun creative collage challenge, and some behind the scenes studio projects to discuss in…
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Februllage Week 2: Studio Vlog
Week 2 of Februllage just concluded, and for this week I wanted to experiment with documenting the process of working in multiples. February is the best time of the year for mixed media collage artists: It’s Februllage! In this video, I take you through a studio vlog entry of my process of working on 4…
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Februllage 2025: 1-9(ish)
I discovered Februllage last year in an internet rabbit hole. I loved it. In the depths of Midwest Winter, this is the creative project that seems to kick me back to life from the WInter SADs. What is Februllage? Februllage is a collaboration between Edinburgh Collage Collective and the Scandinavian Collage Museum. This initiative invites…
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Take Me To The Moon: A Mixed Media Video Collage
Greeting from Winter Hibernation! I’ve been inspired by video/collage artist Kyle Mccarthy after discovering him on Tiktok a few years ago. His work has had a huge impact on how I approach experimenting in my own collage, both analog, and digital. Throughout my analog collages, video collage, and prior installation work, I’ve always wanted to…
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The Power of Imagination makes Us Infinite
Inspired by #februllage2024 prompt: Escape, I made this video collage…animation…thing…in Blender. Using a photo from my trip to Iceland, maps and illustrations from the public domain , and Blender’s Grease Pencil, I made this little thang as a practice and experiment. Working in collage is a great way to stay loose, throw perfection out the…
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The Power of Placemaking: Front Yard Prairie Conversion
In an effort to finish a project, I’m throwing this video out to the void. One of my meditations recently has been in the power of place making, and how we can work in the spaces we already exist within to contribute placemaking to our community. One if the ways I chose to do this…
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Blender Practice: Raindrop Visualization
For my 9 to 5, I teach Game Design. While I don’t focus on game design specifically, I do get the opportunity to practice and hone my 3d modelling, motion graphic, and digital art skills. This motion graphic was created in Blender, through a few tutorials, primarily this one. I’d like to extend th is…
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Adventures in 3D Modelling: Low Poly Unicorn
For my 9 to 5, I teach Game Design. While I don’t focus on game design specifically, I do get the opportunity to practice and hone my 3d modelling, motion graphic, and digital art skills. This graphic was created in Blender, through a few tutorials, primarily this one. This was a spapshot from one of…
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New @ Studio 2: Handmade Vintage Journals, Notebooks, and Sketchbooks
The Studio has been busy, busy, busy! We’ve had our noses in vintage hardcovers, hiding within the depth’s of Colorado Spring’s local bookstores, because we’ve been stuck on our latest project: handmade journals.