WordPress Artist Website Features for Professional Appeal
Great art can be let down by a slow, messy website. These six WordPress artist website features make your portfolio look professional to art directors.
Curating Creative Output: Why Less Art Means More Authority
Posting everything makes a portfolio look unfocused. Curating creative output, showing less and better work, builds authority with the clients you actually want.
Neurodiversity in Art: Creative Expression is Survival
For many neurodivergent people, making art isn’t a hobby; it’s how they process a world that feels too loud. Learn how neurodiversity shapes creative work.
Art and Psychology Connection: Recognition in the Uncanny
The uncanny, that familiar-but-strange feeling, is one of the strongest links between art and psychology. Find out why it works and how I use it in illustration.
Building Trust and Desire: The Power of Testimonials in Art
Clients trust other clients more than they trust your own claims. This post shows how artists can collect strong testimonials and use them to win better work.
Purple Palette: The Color of Creativity and Transformation
Purple has long been linked with imagination and change. Find out why a purple palette ties all of Purple Parlo’s work together and how one colour can become a brand.
Passive Income Streams: How to Turn Client Work into a Creative Ecosystem
Client work alone can drain an illustrator fast. See how to turn commissions into passive income streams, like prints, templates and licensing, that support each other.
The Alien Dictionary: Translating Abstract Feelings into Visual Language
Some feelings don’t have words. The Alien Dictionary is my growing set of visual symbols for them, built from the outsider’s point of view. This post looks at how it works.
Mental Health Illustration Services: A Guide for Modern Agencies
A practical guide for agencies, clinics and publishers: what mental health illustration services cover, why custom images build trust, and how a project runs from brief to final files.
Authentic Neurodivergent Experience: Why Generic Imagery Fails
Stock photos of puzzle pieces and stressed faces don’t show what neurodivergent life feels like. Learn how custom illustration can show masking, overload and difference more honestly.
Trauma Illustration: Why Visual Metaphors Offer Deeper Healing Than Words
Trauma often lives where words can’t reach. See how trauma illustration uses visual metaphor, symmetry and simple shapes to make hard feelings easier to see and talk about.
I Have a Feeling…
I have a feeling. A new, weird one. It is like… nothing. A short illustrated poem about a numb, strange feeling that followed me home.