BELLA KISMET

This past weekend, my older daughter and I started working on a tattoo for someone. What a fun treat! I mean, artists create art so sketching something is a real pleasure. We've created a pretty nice design and digitized it.  I have to be honest, I have never understood how someone would walk into a tattoo parlor and pick a design off of a wall or out of a book without personalizing it. Art is SO personal. It is making the human body into a living canvas. So, contributing to the design for someone in a unique and personal way is such a pleasure.  I've done a few tattoos (including my own). I think I'll expand my repertoire to start taking requests for customized tattoos just to be sure people put the art they want on their bodies.  If you have a tattoo you'd like designed or customized for you, reach out via instagram @bellakismet  Click to view the process and the result ( on TikTok here )  Video of my bestie getting tatted by Thai @ Thai's Tatted Mermai...

One of my favorite ongoing projects has been promoting and designing for a local personal trainer. He had been a personal trainer for years, but worked for another company and hadn't expanded his brand. Eventually, we discussed a few ideas, and I created a logo that he fell in love with. From there, it expanded into an established brand.  I created designs for merchandise (shirts, stickers, water bottles, etc) as well as helped film content for his Instagram audience. The combination of design and video/pics absolutely taps into my heart as an artist (and fitness lover). Some of the videos I created for him - particularly the ones with the teens recently, and a few of his individual workouts. At the gym, you'll see people trying to film their own workouts - some do okay but - for trainers, it's beneficial to stay focused on the client and not worry about pressing the record button.  Trainers need to have contracts and liability forms so among the many things created were c...