my bestie Bri and I have painted over 60 minis this week!

Hi Reader, this weekend a hurricane came through my area and I live directly in the center of where it came through, so I’m on my third day without electricity, so this email won’t be too long as I need to conserve battery power. Thankfully we’re all safe, other than a lot of trees down in our neighborhood. There’s been a lot of damage here on the gulf coast. The wind was howling so loudly when it came through!

Given that we still don’t have any power, it’s dark in my studio, so yesterday I grabbed a few canvases, tubes of black and white paint, and went outside to paint in the daylight. It was actually really nice because the storm cooled the weather off slightly. Maybe the lord’s way of blessing us after the storm! I’m loving the cooler weather.

a little tiger shark I painted yesterday

Even with the hurricane, I have painted A LOT this week and have still been working as much as I can!

I’ve just added a new art print and sticker to my shop: an Okapi!

World Okapi Day is coming up and I’m partnering with the Okapi Conservation Project to promote and donate 20% of the sales of my okapi art back to conservation between October 16-20th.

Okapi are so rare, and endangered, and I’m excited to highlight them.

a real okapi named Moyo helped me paint this by painting the background first!

You can collect your okapi here.

okay, now a quick update on the big collaborative artwork project that my bestie Bri and I are creating:

As you know, we are currently painting 400 two-inch canvases and we have about 5ish weeks left! We'll be meeting up in Hawai’i to piece all of the mini paintings together for the collection we’ve been working on. Right now I have 200 of them, and Bri has 200 of them and we're honestly just hoping and praying that they're going to match up together the way we think they will.

I painted these 2 this morning, however Bri a has decided to keep the one on the right “Dare to Dream” for herself 🤪❤️

Here are the other new minis that we’ve painted since I last emailed you:

If you are new here or if you happened to miss my last newsletter, here is something exclusive we are offering our email subscribers (aka all of you!)

We are going to allow you to have first dibs on any of the mini paintings that catch your eyes and you can order them before the full collection releases publicly to our 155,000+ followers on socials in November.

There will only be 400 mini original paintings available for this collection release!

So if you already know you want to claim one or some of the minis shown in this newsletter before anyone else does, then directly reply to this email and tell me which one(s) you want and I’ll send you a custom order link.

The next ones below that you will get to see are the others that Briana and I have painted over the past month.

The fishies and ocean:

The rays and jellies:

The seals and whales:

The sharks

These are things you may find on the beach 🦀 🐚

The food collection:

The dolphins:

and a few more sea creatures:

The landscapes:

And last but not least some other things we’ve painted 🌺 🦎 ✨

Here’s some important info.

#1 The minis you order will not be shipped until after the collection releases in November because Bri and I need them all until then so we can piece them together for the bigger painting they will all create unitedly.

#2 Here is the pricing for the minis:

1 mini = $75 USD

2-3 minis = $70 each

4-9 minis = $65 each

10+ minis = $65 each with a free 8” x 8” print of the whole collection pieced together.

#3 All orders of original paintings will ship free in the USA 🇺🇸

#4 For International orders, we recommend budgeting approx. around $25-$35 USD for shipping costs.

#5 It's first come, first serve. Once you let us know which painting you want, we'll send you a custom listing. You'll have a grace period of 3 days after we send the listing to pay, but after that those paintings are back up for grabs to our email subscribers.

Thank you all very much for the excitement you’ve been expressing for Briana's and my collaboration 🥰🥰 We are so grateful for you all 🫂 🫂

Some of y’all have already been jumping in on this opportunity to claim your favs 😍 THANK YOU SO MUCH

It’s an artist’s dream to have a sell out collection. We’d love for every mini to find a home as we have been pouring our hearts into creating each one and with each one claimed we are getting closer to our “sellout dream” 🤩🥳

So a GRAND BIG thank you to each of you supporting this beautiful collection 🫶🏽