Out & About: lucy light forest

In the spirit of all the Christmas lights up all around Boston, I wanted to write a post about the beautiful lights I experienced a few months ago.

On October 13th I had the pleasure of going to the Lucy Light forest on the esplanade in Boston. 

The Lucy Light Forest is an interactive light and sound experience created to celebrate movement and the women who love it. The forest is a bit larger than a football field and consists of more than 10,000 solar powered LED lights. Amber hues of light and complementary tones of sound are activated by movement as people pass through the forest. (source)

I sadly didn't get to fully experience the Light Forest since I didn't find out about it until the last night, but the people from Lucy Activewear held assorted fitness classes for free held by local fitness instructors. It really was a magical experience, and one of the favorite events I've ever attended in Boston.

Find these items here: top//pants//socks//thick headband//double headband

After posting some pictures on instagram, the kind people at Lucy reached out to me and offered to send me something. When I came back from visiting Baltimore over Thanksgiving I opened up the BEST package!

I am so in love with all my activewear and it certainly has inspired me to get back into exercising more. I've been meaning to pick up yoga again and I'm taking this as my inspiration. All the clothes are insanely comfortable and I'd wear the pants every day if that was socially acceptable.

Make sure to follow Lucy on facebook so you don't miss out on their next installation. I'm hopeful that the light forest will be back next year so I can really have a chance to enjoy it!

Thanks again to the generous people at Lucy! 

Don't forget, there's still a few days to get your holiday orders in from the shop! -b

An Overdue Update: i graduated college!

I'm going to write it here so it has to happen: I will blog more. 

I've even taken specific photos on purpose just for the sake of blogging.  And I haven't done it. But those photos still exist and belated posts are better than nonexistent ones. So here I am, and I've had so many blog worthy moments in the past few months that I will be blogging this week to catch up. 

First things first: I graduated college! I'll miss the heck out of Massart and all the amazing things it brought to my life, but I am so  excited about being a college graduate and getting started in the big world. It poured up all morning until we all walked out to our seats, so it was a bit crazy. We almost weren't allowed to walk due to the rain but we obviously protested until they let us.

I found my first 4 leaf clover a week before I graduated at my boyfriend Tom's graduation. That was a good start to the end.

Since I graduated, I went to Israel, went to NYC for the National Stationary Show & Surtex, have had my artwork begin selling at Target, turned 22, chopped off about 5 inches of hair, had a 5 year anniversary with my boyfriend Tom, and so many more little exciting moments. I can't wait to share them all.

Here's a start to something I will be better at. -b

In the Studio: a sneak peak

Coming up with just a few short months until the end of my last year at MassArt, I can say that the studio space is what I'll miss most. I love having a place to work at school and having so many illustration & graphic design students around is pretty awesome & inspiring.  Its not anything special, but this is my studio space.

Its always a little bit of a mess but I guess that's what its like being an art student. Its changing constantly with new projects, but here you can see my Nursery Rhyme Illustrations and two of my Degree Project tunnel books.

I also am forever swooning over my prints & postcards you can see on the left side by Jaime Zollars, Ambird, Kristen Uroda, Nick Sullivan, & a  very awesome little panoramic drawing of houses in Italy that my friend brought me back from a street artist!

I mean really though, talk about a killer view. Definitely will miss this view while I work. 

& I'll of course miss my lovely seniors in illustration who are a constant inspiration.