Illustration

My drawings served as sketches for larger paintings until I realized that I enjoyed making the drawings more. There is an immediacy to drawing by hand that makes the end product feel more “alive.” I use primarily pencil, ink, and oil pastel, and draw from life, photographs, and memory. In recent years, my illustrations have incorporated photography, allowing me to merge the real and surreal in an authentic way.

Illustrations featured here have been recognized by Print—a magazine about visual culture and design—and American Illustration, and were featured in How Book’s ‘Fingerprint: The Art of Making Handmade Elements in Graphic Design.’

Illustrations for Cleveland Magazine

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January is here, and so is Cleveland Magazine’s annual issue featuring 30 of the city’s most interesting people. The short list includes new member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Shaquille O’Neal, congresswoman Betty Sutton (author of Cash for Clunkers), and Henri Ngolo—who supports orphanages in the Democratic Republic of Congo on his salary as a Sam’s Club Assistant Manager. My assignment included hand-drawn typography for the title and awardee names, as well as line art integrated into photography by Chris Walters.

Seasonal migration

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Also known as Canada Geese, members of the species Branta canadensis are known for their V-shaped flight formation and seasonal migrations (the honking of large flocks overhead marks the transition into spring and autumn in the Arctic and temperate North America). Once threatened by over-hunting and loss of habitat, the geese have proven remarkably adaptable to human-altered areas (e.g. golf courses, parks and beaches) and are now the most common waterfowl species in N.A.

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London calling

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Back-to-school

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Auden, our youngest, joined Henry at preschool this month. The seasoned veteran (featured below) has taken it upon himself to show his brother the ropes, providing company on the playground, help unpacking lunch, reminders to go pee (Auden is still potty training), and a familiar face among so many new ones. This drawing is dedicated to the two of them. I am so very proud of both.
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We’ll eat you up—we love you so!

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I love Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, and feel so fortunate to reexperience it with our boys; at ages 3 (“I’m 3-3/4!”) and 2 (“I’m 2-1/2!”), they can recite every line. The story is reenacted daily at our home, and it is not uncommon to hear a terrible roar, the gnashing of terrible teeth, or see the baring of terrible claws en route to the kitchen. As such, it is a great pleasure to contribute to Cory Godbey’s wonderful project Terrible Yellow Eyes, a collection of artwork inspired by the book. View as slideshow (below) or click here to view as a single composite image.

Hills like white elephants

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Things that were lost (what I have found)

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Selected

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The seventeen images in this sequence were selected from projects completed over the past four years. Here, each is stripped of it’s original narrative and stands alone—as photograph with illustration and/or hand-drawn type.

Images were selected from: (Top row, from left) The Mallards of Gill Bridge, Cord, Fly Fishing, Montpelier, Sequoia National Park; (2nd row, from left) NYC/Hoover Wilderness, Birdfinger, NYC/Hoover Wilderness, NYC/Hoover Wilderness, Huntington Gardens (and Strybing Arboretum); (3rd row, from left) Huntington Gardens (and Strybing Arboretum), The Mallards of Gill Bridge, September 17th, Cannon Beach, Cord; (4th row, from left) Montpelier, and Yosemite.

The Mallards of Gill Bridge

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American Illustration 27 winner

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‘Untitled’ from the personal series ‘Yosemite‘, was selected to appear in American Illustration 27. From 7,500 pictures entered by over 1,200 illustrators, magazines, agencies and publishers, the jury selected only 386 images to appear in the book and represent the best pictures of 2007. AI27 will be printed in full color and distributed world-wide in hard-cover this November.

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