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2021 brings changes

I’m no longer taking on website or design projects. Instead, I’m focused on personal artwork and keeping up with WordPress by caring for my existing clients’ websites and staying connected to the Seattle WordPress community.


Leslie Newman

About Leslie

Trained as an old school graphic designer, Leslie’s skills bridge design and technology. Her experience, easy going demeanor, and focus on client objectives make for successful projects and happy clients.

For over 20 years she has provided graphic design and marketing services to businesses small and large, creating websites, print collateral, and illustrations. She’s been on teams producing large, complex websites, consulting on design, content, and marketing.

An accomplished illustrator, Leslie has created work for companies such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and the Wall Street Journal. See her illustration portfolio. Recently she’s begun to show her personal artwork. See her bold modernist abstracts at leslienewman.art.


I work in a studio in the woods

Located in a rural beach community, Indianola, WA, I’m just a short drive and ferry ride from downtown Seattle. The studio is surrounded by a forest of big trees and a garden filled with native plants. The environment is an inspiration. Of course, there’s also high-speed internet access and a back-up generator.

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Our Neck of the Woods

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Cropped to a square is an improvement (image 1). T Cropped to a square is an improvement (image 1). This is the painting shown in previous tape peeling reel post. The exercise is to use linear overlapping shapes (image 3) to jumpstart an abstract oil painting, from the Exploring Abstraction course by Jenny Nelson. None of the original marks are visible btw. 🤓🤷‍♀️

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Static images of the painting exercise shown in ye Static images of the painting exercise shown in yesterday’s reel. 

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Now we’re cookin’! 👩‍🍳 This is a new e Now we’re cookin’! 👩‍🍳 This is a new exercise using linear overlapping shapes to jumpstart an abstract oil painting (image 2 ➡️, details 3 & 4 ➡️). Mixed up a specified harmonious palette and added some juicy R&F oil sticks. I’m getting the push I wanted to move my digital abstract work into real world materials. Thanks to the Exploring Abstraction course by Jenny Nelson @nelsonpainter - I’m jazzed! 🤗

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