Girl with Scythe

A work in progress. . .

The Bicycle

A drawing I did this weekend--more to come in the series!

Two Tigers and a Bunny

Here's a mini preview of some watercolors I'll be selling at Art Market in a few weeks!

Belated Birthday

Almost forgot about these little cards I made for my mom and mother-in-law on their birthdays! One lives in Florida and the other in Michigan, I'm sure you can figure out who got which card ;)

"Grow Old" Inking Phase

I have the honor of designing the cover art for Katie Buckley's debut album, "Grow Old." Katie is a long-time friend of mine and it's been super fun to collaborate with her on this project. I thought I'd share a sneak-peek of the design: this is the finished line work to be used in the final product, which I'll share later this week!

The Levitators

Here's a spooky little tree study and a series of graphite and ink drawings inspired by M83's Midnight City and Halloweeeeeen!

Sketchbook Doodles

I've been working with watercolor and ink in my studio when I need to take a break and just make something for fun. Here are a few illustrations from the past couple of weeks!

Studio Update: Creative Paradox Residency

It's been a while since my last post, but I've been pretty busy in the meantime! In the past few months I've gotten engaged (and will be married in less than 3 weeks!) started a new job, and have begun a year-long residency at Creative Paradox in Annapolis, Maryland. I've been sharing a beautiful studio space with the other two resident artists, Lee Nowell and Nicole Mueller. Today has been a great day of preparation for our upcoming art party/fundraising event "12X12", with all three of us in the studio working on separate projects and my fiance planning some collaborative work with our program director, Casey Johnson. The night of August 18th we'll have the studios open for "12X12", so come check it out! There will be plenty of work on display, t- shirts and prints for sale, live music, live art-making, and real live artists! More details here.

Images courtesy of Darren Heater

Dove girls

A quick painting based on a photo I took last summer of a group of kids holding a handmade dove "tent." Acrylic on paper.

First Fridays @ PAD

I am very excited to be able to showcase my work for PAD's "First Fridays" event! The work displayed will be primarily thesis work with a few new pieces that relate to the series. The work will be up for all of January, but be sure to come by the opening this Friday from 6-8pm for wine and appetizers! PAD is located at 1500 Thames Street down in Fells Point. Check out the event page for more information about the show: http://pad-furniture.com/arts-at-pad/ They are now accepting entries for the February salon-style show.

Ten Paces and Draw--November mixtape

Ten Paces and Draw featured my art this week for their "November Mixtape"--a bit different from their usual sketch swap; we were given a selection of songs to choose from and illustrate. I chose "Bobby Beale" by the Generationals--check out the song and full post here!

Holler to my man Klimt for providing the inspiration for this dysfuctional relationship piece

Birthday Card

A watercolor I made for my roommate's birthday yesterday---happy birthday Annie!!

Handlettering Commission

This is a commission I did a while back--sorry for the poor image quality! I grabbed a few snapshots before sending the illustration on its way. The work was commissioned by someone who wanted a gift for his sister who was graduating from college. She had a typed list of personal inspirational quotes that she kept on her mirror which he wanted to have hand-lettered and framed. You can see the document in its original form below.

Ten Paces and Draw

It was a lot of fun to contribute to the blog Ten Paces and Draw this week! The theme was "Pet Portraits", and this is my finalized version of Kyle Fewell's cat sketch. You can see them together here and also check out Jen Mussari's version of my sketch here

Thunder Thighs

Cards!

Two cards I recently made--one is a thank you to a friend's parents who let a bunch of us stay at their home in Connecticut last weekend for a rock climbing trip, and the other is a very belated birthday card.

Ganymede

A graphite study of a sculpture in the Walters Art Museum

Sketch Map

An unfinished map illustrating a portion of Lynne Cox's Arctic swim in relation to the expedition of Roald Amundsen. This is meant to accompany an article about the 3 legs of Cox's journey and its historical ties to other water voyages.

Safari Mural Process and Completion!

This is a little late in the posting, but I wanted to share a quick little stop-motion I recorded during the install of the Safari Nursery mural. Everything is a printed vinyl transfer apart from the vines, which were penciled and then painted on with acrylic. The install took all day but moved along swiftly thanks to all the help from my boyfriend Mark Oliver The process was a lot of fun and something I hope to continue in the future for large-format projects. (Music clip is "One Heavy February" by Architecture in Helsinki)

Safari Mural

I've been working on a mural project while I've been home in Michigan for a couple of weeks, and this time around I experimented with a slightly different approach. All of the murals I've done thus far have been abstract compositions painted directly onto the wall using semigloss interior paint. For the safari nursery project, I decided to go a different route and do large vinyl print-outs of ink and photoshop illustrations, with some details being painted directly on the wall (such as the vines) Here is a sampling of the work I sent out for print. (The monkeys were part of the original design but will not be included in the final installation)