How a painting a day took Jennifer from career creative to having her own creative career

Feb 10, 2021

Margo is Joined by Jennifer Orkin Lewis. A deep love of color, pattern and nature are the foundation of Jennifer's work as an artist, illustrator, author and teacher. Her joyful gouache paintings of flowers, random objects, people and occasional meditative abstract musings open a colorful and enticing window onto a detail of the day one might ordinarily overlook.

 

Jennifer and Margo discuss:

 

• How she got into painting and making the transition from textiles
• Not being precious about your work and why it’s so important
• What Jennifer does when she feels stuck creatively 
• What she loves about teaching 
• The power of not giving up on yourself even when you do feel stuck
• Her experience with licensing 
• And where she finds everyday inspiration

 

Ten years ago she made the move to switch careers from textile design to illustration, to fulfill a long held goal, and began a rigorous daily sketchbook project, doing a 30 minute painting every day. The looseness and intuitiveness of those paintings became her signature style and they are the source of much inspiration to herself and others. She is endlessly amazed and satisfied to see her shelf filling up with completed sketchbooks.

Connect with Jennifer:

www.augustwren.com

https://www.instagram.com/augustwren/

https://www.pinterest.com/augustwren/_created/

 

Resources:

100-Days-Drawing-Guided-Sketchbook 

Sketchbook Idea Generator 

Draw-Every-Day-Guided-Sketchbook