I make original acrylic & watercolor paintings, illustrations in all kinds of media from graphite to chalk pastel, lettering, and the random mural project. Bitz illustrates, paints murals, paints canvases, does graphic deisgn, logo designs, comics, cartoons, photoshop images, vector images...if it has something to do with art Bitz is probably game.
The story of Bitz Designs starts with a girl and a love of everything comics, crayons, and painting. Bitz is the graffiti name that I was given or "blessed" with years ago while out painting on trains, bridges, and walls in the loveliest of places: the east side Des Moines. However my love of all things art begins long before I was filling in the background "bitz" for graff writers, it begins when I was about seven and I used to trace Peanuts comics from the Des Moines Register and Tiny Toon Adventure characters out of my coloring books. Since then my love of drawing and painting has only grown to become a part of who I am everyday, I'm always doodling or painting something no matter where I seem to be or who I am with. My passion for drawing led me to study graphic design, illustration, and commercial art at Des Moines Area Community College and, with the hopes of actually getting to live off of art, I graduated with my degree in 2007. Yep, 2007. Pretty slim pickins in the art world for jobs back then and for quite a few years after as well. Its hard to put out a fire that has been burning for so long, so I never gave up, and have continued to look for graphic design jobs, or any art jobs for that matter, this entire time. Never have found one but it did lead me to start my own business, Bitz Designs, which has been pretty cool so far and I think in the end could be a pretty sweet **** art company; saving the world one bit at a time!
