No updates forever & ever because I am very sick and have also been working on the same huge job nonstop for a month. I am behind on everything in the universe, so if you’ve emailed or messaged me and haven’t heard back, please please forgive me & I will write back soon!! Here is a sketch for one of many delayed projects — hoping to finish it & get it off to the gallery early this week, so I’ll post the final soon :] It will be all gouache I think, no Photoshop — scarryyyyy. High-res

No updates forever & ever because I am very sick and have also been working on the same huge job nonstop for a month. I am behind on everything in the universe, so if you’ve emailed or messaged me and haven’t heard back, please please forgive me & I will write back soon!!

Here is a sketch for one of many delayed projects — hoping to finish it & get it off to the gallery early this week, so I’ll post the final soon :] It will be all gouache I think, no Photoshop — scarryyyyy.

I took this piece out into the yard the other day to finally get better documentation of it (which means I now need to spend a couple hours stitching together photos of each square foot) before I give it away to be reframed and put in a show. I’m debating whether or not to mark it as for sale — I’m more attached to it than I am to anything else I’ve ever made, but I also have very little reverence for original art and not a lot of wall space in my life, so maybe it’s better off in someone else’s home rather than stuffed in my damp basement like it has been for the past few months. Anyway, just wanted to post this to demonstrate how goddamn big this is, at least for a tiny girl who uses watercolor and 0.05-size pens most of the time. High-res

I took this piece out into the yard the other day to finally get better documentation of it (which means I now need to spend a couple hours stitching together photos of each square foot) before I give it away to be reframed and put in a show. I’m debating whether or not to mark it as for sale — I’m more attached to it than I am to anything else I’ve ever made, but I also have very little reverence for original art and not a lot of wall space in my life, so maybe it’s better off in someone else’s home rather than stuffed in my damp basement like it has been for the past few months. Anyway, just wanted to post this to demonstrate how goddamn big this is, at least for a tiny girl who uses watercolor and 0.05-size pens most of the time.

Every so often my children’s illustration agent comes up with themes for the illustrators she works with to make into a promo piece. This month’s theme, “Cars & Trucks” seemed like something I really wasn’t interested in, until I made it into something I’m interested in :]

Gouache on 300lb hot press paper, + minor Photoshop tweaks.

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New piece, “Birdbrained Sonuvabitch,” for the next show at Light Grey Art Lab, Expletive! You can read a write-up about it on Vita.mn here. The opening is this Friday evening! I had a lot more trouble than I expected coming up with a piece for the show, because while I like bad words just as much as (if not more than) all other words, I couldn’t really think of a way to make them the focal point of a piece without feeling like it was too synthetically rebellious or just (and it’s sad that this bothers me) completely unmarketable. But I’d been rereading Salinger stories and had the idea to channel some of the better midcentury expletives and came up with this, partially because it gave me a reason to add birds. In the long run I’ll probably replace the lettering altogether and make these into pretty little thank-you cards or something, because I’m just not cool enough to pull the expletive thing off. TL;DR- All the other artists did a better and more authentic job than me go to the opening High-res

New piece, “Birdbrained Sonuvabitch,” for the next show at Light Grey Art Lab, Expletive! You can read a write-up about it on Vita.mn here. The opening is this Friday evening!

I had a lot more trouble than I expected coming up with a piece for the show, because while I like bad words just as much as (if not more than) all other words, I couldn’t really think of a way to make them the focal point of a piece without feeling like it was too synthetically rebellious or just (and it’s sad that this bothers me) completely unmarketable. But I’d been rereading Salinger stories and had the idea to channel some of the better midcentury expletives and came up with this, partially because it gave me a reason to add birds. In the long run I’ll probably replace the lettering altogether and make these into pretty little thank-you cards or something, because I’m just not cool enough to pull the expletive thing off.

TL;DR- All the other artists did a better and more authentic job than me go to the opening