| smooth seas never made a skillful sailor |

An attempt to play around and experiment with hand drawn type. 

• Ink and watercolor •

| 3/5/15 |

16 x 20' mandala painted with acrylic gouache paint. Love how this turned out!

| 1-18-15 |

A sketch I did today. Uber pleased.

| etsy shop is live! |

So happy to announce my etsy shop, Mystic Moonrise, is finally live! For now I have some of my favorite art pieces that I made into prints for sale and my next step will be including hand-dyed and screenprinted shirts. This is something I've wanted to do for quite some time now, and grateful that 2015 has given me the push to make my visions into reality. Excited for everything that the future holds, and can't wait to see where this take me next!

| new year, new art |

Excited to see more of my creativity unleashed in 2015--just finished this cow skull mandala, my first work in the new year.

• watercolor, ink, pencil on vellum •

| color theory |

• acrylic gouache on vellum •

Not sure why I waited until my senior year to take this class, waking up at 8 AM isn't so bad when you get to paint!

| practice |

Some of my drawings I've done on slow shifts at my work, all hand drawn with pencil and ink. 

| red mandala |

• acrylic and ink on canvas •

11-18-14

Just finished fall quarter a few days ago and taking advantage of my spare time to paint. These are some of the mandalas.

•Acrylic and ink•

| fall display |

First display I got to create from concept to building for my internship this quarter at Lewis Boutique.

10-13-14

Mandala I doodled up at work today, importing into Illustrator for future design magic ✨

Ink on paper

| Design Project 01 |

First art project of the fall quarter.

Had to recreate words using line and shape : from top right clockwise: fountain, isolated, broken, embraced, wilted, flow. 

// spirit animal //

Working on concepts for future prints, so a sketch came out of a Sunday spent doodling. 

Sanskrit Mandala

Mixed media on canvas by me, Rachel Sims. Acrylics and India ink 

// moon phases //

Moon Phases--India ink and acrylic

India Ink

Spent this Sunday playing around with a fresh new bottle of Bombay India ink in blue...I want all the colors now!