Spring Semester Wrap-Up: Projects and Designs from March to May

June 25, 2019June 22, 2019 ~ Swapna ~ Leave a comment

I know, I know. We’re nearly a month into summer, and here I am doing a spring semester wrap-up. Things have been busy, OK?! I shared many of these projects as I did them, either on the blog or on Instagram, but there are a few that feel like I did them secretly. I never got around to sharing them on social media, so–what a sign of the times–it feels like they don’t exist yet. Here are all my fun projects from spring semester!

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Literary Blackboards

May 23, 2019May 18, 2019 ~ Swapna ~ Leave a comment

Last year, I did #LiteraryWhiteboardLettering, a project in which I lettered book quotes on school whiteboards every day that I gave a book talk to my students. It was my way of fostering a reading culture in my STEM school. This year, I changed schools. I wanted to keep promoting reading by lettering book quotes in my classroom. #LiteraryBlackboards was born.

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My First Experience as an Art Vendor!

May 21, 2019May 18, 2019 ~ Swapna ~ 1 Comment

Last week, on a rainy Saturday, I had my first experience selling my art in a festival setting! It was one of those things that I thought I would never do–my personality just isn’t right for selling my art in person, I thought. But, y’all, it was fun. Here’s the story of how it came to be!

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Quick Links to My Comic Fest Products!

May 12, 2019May 12, 2019 ~ Swapna ~ 1 Comment

This weekend I got to be a vendor at the Rockwall Comic Fest, hosted by Rockwall ISD. Here are the designs I featured as stickers or posters at the event! You can find all the stickers at my Etsy shop here, or click through the quick links blow (see product title) to see my designs on several products, including mugs, notebooks, and tote bags!

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Four Designs, Three Chalkboards, Two Languages, One Verse, and One Strange Crush

May 2, 2019May 2, 2019 ~ Swapna ~ 4 Comments

I have a confession to make.

I love Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 The Ten Commandments. All three hours and forty minutes of it. And not just because of nostalgia because my family used to watch it every year. Not just because Charlton Heston is so epic, it’s comical, but then loops back to epic again. Not just because that parting of the waters scene and the tornado of fire still impresses me… but because I had a huge crush on Joshua.

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