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This year, my class will be illustrating Jane Yolen's "Infirm Pachyderm" to compete for the Raab Prize. The main character, t...

Will possibly end up in my senior project!

Given the text and asked to create six images that coordinate with each of the sentences. Ink scanned and colored digitally.

Hypothetical New Yorker cover for the week of September 11, 2011. I was thinking about the fact that children now learn about the attacks in...

A quick hour-and-a-half assignment in class (create a self-portrait in the style of one of your favorite illustrators), with texture added...

I often like to deal with problems I have by crafting a solution. Why not, when it's often cheaper and you can make it exactly how you w...

Just playing around with repeat patterns again. This one, which I'm calling "Le Woof" for now, is meant to be on a fancy dog ...

Over the past few weeks, I've been working hard on inventory, photographs, and listings for my Etsy shop. Here are some of the result...

After weeks of paperwork, meetings, and creating, I've finally launched my Etsy store! There are only three items listed at the ...

A test for a screen printed corgi pillow. I am still undecided about whether I will use patterned or solid fabric - probably both! I made ...

The beginnings of a cover for my unpublished picture book manuscript "Palace Pooches," the story of Queen Elizabeth II's corgi...

I decided to give an old lamp new life, inspired by the image below, a bronze button found in a book of Norwegian folk patterns. I'm in ...

I'm setting up a mini-studio for the summer and decided to hang up lots of things that I've found inspirational over the past few mo...

I've had dachshunds on the brain lately, so I played around with some scratch board and Photoshop a bit. Maybe I will work on a more fi...

Introducing "Big Butt," a font I designed.

The new blog background as a fun dress print!

I've been experimenting with repeat patterns lately. Here is a new background in hope that spring will come soon!

I've started work on a few pages of a coloring book inspired by the first assignment in the last post. Instead of copying naked goddess...

A couple of weeks ago, my figure drawing class was assigned the task of finding a masterwork with more than two figures from before the 17th...

A woodblock print of the best lunch you could possibly feed me.

Some figure drawings from last semester. Charcoal and white conte crayon on craft paper.

I had some fun coming up with a business card to hold me over until I have a real website up and running. The chicken is actually a test ru...

As I mentioned in my last post, I was recently asked to create an image for the cover of the Spring 2011 issue of the Children's Literat...

I recently worked on a cover image for the Children's Literature Association Quarterly, which should be off the press soon! The lead ar...

Read the article here: Alumni artists show their work at high school This is my third year exhibiting in the show. I submitted the "Ch...

Things have actually been pretty exciting on the knitting front lately. Zack has been wearing this hat that I made him this summer, and all...

In honor of the fact that this year somehow ended up being a very cow-oriented year, I decided to create a bovine-themed Christmas card. I...

So this post is perhaps a little late because the show is coming down in a few days, but I just wanted to mention that I have a piece in a s...

A poster to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps! Beans, seeds, cut paper, corn husks, and some tree bark. Not to mention a l...

Quick pen and watercolor portrait of my adorable stinkerpoo, Tuxie.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I would just like to announce that as of perhaps two days ago, Free Text Fridays will now appear under the "Free ...

Illustration of the poem "Chicken Parade" by Jane Yolen (cropped to exclude the poem). It won Honorable Mention in the Raab Associ...

Our first project of the semester was to create a hat that represented us (and surprise, surprise, I knitted one - photos to come eventually...

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