Howlers.
A personal work – ink and gouache.
Illustration for Berklee School of Music’s magazine. Article deals with the increasing popularity and expanding range of the country music genre.
This drawing was created for the latest iteration of L’ETIQUETTE, a journal from Mille Putois editions and brasserie Dunham. The paper is art directed and produced by Simon Bosse. The theme of the artwork in the publication is, unsurprisingly, BEER.
In the summer of 2021 I was in a group show called UNLIMITED at the Museum of Creative Minds in Shanghai. The other artists in the exhibit were Victo Ngai, Olaf Hajek, Akiori Oishi, Chris Buzelli, and Rod Hunt.
I showed original paintings and drawings, prints, and books. The museum also created large scale cut-out sculptures from my ink drawings, as well as a number of products for the museum shop, including mugs, cards, prints and other merch.
Poetrolium is a personal drawing and writing project.
The pieces are posted to my instagram account @poetrolium
Various small ink and gouache works created in 2021 and 2022. Some were shown at Hey There Gallery in a two-person show with Ariel Lee in December 2021.
This is a wrap around cover for the Halloween issue of ILLOZINE, edited by James O’Brien.
These are two illustrations for The American Bystander, a humor magazine. They were commissioned to accompany a piece by the fantastic writer and cartoonist Ron Hauge in which he used predictive text to complete a list of well known phrases and expressions.
Some of those phrases I chose to illustrate include:
News of my death is greatly… appreciated.
Tuesdays child is full of… wine.
Cat on a hot tin… can.
Elvis has left the… right answer.
Santa is coming to… get you.
Who let the dogs… know.
Whatever floats your… car.
You'll never get to heaven if you break my… hand.
You scratch my back, I’ll scratch… my back.
You can catch more flies with honey than with… your own hand.
The Old Adjacency
Perhaps
it was never
fully appreciated –
that unruly niche created
by clear affinity
for near vicinity
and close proximity
of personal spaces.
Conversing in faces.
This drawing and poem was created for howweare.org –a space for writers and artists to share work related to their experiences during the pandemic. It was partly generated out of pondering how my own long-standing hesitancy to be around groups of people could change in the future.
This piece was created for a project called Mixed Tape for a Desert Island. It was conceived and art directed by John Belisle, a Vancouver-based designer. As he describes the concept behind the endeavor:
"We asked nine illustrators and artists to choose one song to take on a desert island and to illustrate the memories and meaning that their selection holds for them."
Each participant was prompted to write an accompanying short piece about their personal connection to the song, and could include information about its history, and their approach to visualizing it. The final form of this project will be a magazine in a print and online edition, as well as a Spotify playlist with all the chosen music.
A label for a beer called Bardane.
Created for the Canadian brewery Brasserie Dunham.
A painting for a group gallery show titled Wake Up Alice! celebrating the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland. Acrylic and gouache on board.
Sketchbook Snails. Ink, gouache, watercolor, and combinations thereof.
I did a series of illustrations for James Thurber – The Collected Fables. Edited by Michael J. Rosen and published by Harper Collins in 2019.
The fable I illustrated is The Last Clock : A Fable for the Time, Such as It Is of Man.
This painting was published in Audubon magazine as part of a series in which contemporary artists and illustrators reinterpret an Audubon bird painting. I chose the American White Pelican. More information about the piece and my inspiration on the Audubon website here
Below the final version is a first painting that served as a warm-up.
This poster was published by School Library Journal in early 2017, and sent out with the magazine to 15,000 school librarians. I made it as a personal project after the 2016 election, with the idea of creating a poster around the subject of protest that would appeal to elementary school age kids. Many thanks to Mark Tuchman, an art director at SLJ who saw it on my Facebook, pitched it to the magazine, and helped secure support from two of my publishers – Houghton Mifflin and Macmillan. An interview with the magazine on the subject of creating the poster can be found here.
Artwork created for the 2015 Corona Capital music festival in Mexico City for t-shirts and posters
Twenty flowers from my daily drawings practice selected and paired up. These are all ink and watercolor on Stonehenge warm white paper.
Drawing published in ILLOZINE 22, edited by James O’Brien.
Drawing published in NoBrow 9 – Its Oh So Quiet.
Below – an unpublished alternate color version.
This was created for a magazine called Wayward Arts, which is conceived and produced by design firms in Canada, moving from one to the next issue by issue. For this one the theme was Obsession. Myself and a number of other illustrators and photographers were given text pulled from chatroom conversations and asked to interpret visually. This issue, titled Obsessions, was concieved, art directed and designed by John Belisle.
These watercolor and ink drawings of sea creatures were published in the illustration brainstorming book ILLISTRATION by Jaime Zollars.
This personal work was selected for publication in the American Illustration 39 annual.
Cover and interior illustration and hand lettering for the February / March 2020 issue of The Progressive
Personal work titled Cyborg published in American Illustration 35
Illustration for Waitrose Weekly about a language app for your phone.
Hand lettering for myself and clients.
Beautiful letter press cards created from one of my ink drawings by Terry Chouinard and his fabulous The Wing and the Wheel Press. A short film about Terry and his work here.
A poster created to celebrate reading.
Image created for Noise Heroes, a recording studio in Milan. With an alternate version of the drawing below.
