Studio Life

…a bright new project is in the works! Wishing you a colorful day from Cathy Heck Studio!

Today we have a guest blogger, Julianna, amazing middle Heck sister and current advanced graphic design student at VCUarts, to share one of her class assignments.  She has been working with a group on a semester-long project that will culminate in the design of an instructional interactive media piece.  Their subject: how to make home-brewed kombucha! We’d noticed this new

On our way back up the great state of California, my husband and I stopped and hiked in Joshua Tree and Sequoia Parks and then took Route 99 up the middle of the San Joaquin Valley.  We’d seen in one of the motel guidebooks that Exeter was known for its many murals, so we parked on the nearly abandoned Main

We’ve loved Luna Garcia pottery for a long time here in the studio, so I was super excited to be able to visit the actual store and workshop while we were in LA.  There is a back room where you can find pieces that are slightly different from the main collection, and I wanted to buy a few to celebrate

For Spring Break, we drove down Route 1 from San Francisco to LA, excited to see Big Sur – both of us thinking it was one specific thing, like a giant rock in the shape of a horse just off the coast or something like that – some pinnable dot on a map.  Apparently, according to the park ranger who