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Emily Herr and I collaborated to paint this larrrrge piece on the Vienna Shopping Center, about a mile from the house where I grew up. The design was all me; Emily provided invaluable support in muraling logistics, planning, and all the lettering (as well as a whole lot of painting!). Many thanks to our assistants Madeleine D., Morgan S., and Noah T, and the local volunteers who came out to pitch in. This was so much fun! And I barely have to edit the photos because the colors really are that vibrant. 

location paintings observing the relationship between the architecture of the I-5 highway and the humans who shelter and gather on its fringes. watercolor & pen & ink on cold press paper, 12 x 9″ 

Artists were invited to use secondhand/found objects as their canvas. I found this glass candle-house at Goodwill and collaged a watercolor landscape onto it for a surreal feeling, bending expectations of what seems to be outside and what’s inside. 

SOHO In Springtime / for Soho Design District Bottom version is an initial version we made for the winter season that ended up not being used; I later revised the illustration for spring events!

Sea Stack House / For “April Showers” show at Statix in Seattle. Watercolor, ink, paint marker, acrylic collaged on laser-cut wood. 

SEATTLE SKYLINE / watercolor, ink, paint marker, acrylic. An illustration for a large-scale mural proposal.

Lyon Street Stairs & Ina Coolbraith Park - off-the-beaten-track San Francisco spots illustrated for a travel industry startup. Different crops for different uses of the image (posters/merchandising).

Portraits of Seattle / ink, paint marker, watercolor on paper

Ravenna Ridge – my favorite park in Seattle. Watercolor on hot press. (prints!)

Palm Springs, CA • commissioned watercolor painting for Indiewalls. Thanks Kirsten for the fun opportunity!

Watercolor illustration with a bit of digital touch up. Based on a sketch I made while traveling in this city a while ago. 

“Changing Places” Illustration for Boston Globe Magazine. An essay about a caretaker becoming the caretaken. Thanks to my AD Samantha!

Astor Place / Flatiron / Gowanus / Midtown / South Street Seaport

Thanks to Kirsten at Indiewalls & BMF Media for the great event. 

A few spreads from a 16 page feature on my urban sketching work in Graphite Magazine issue 1. The article includes step-by-step progress pics, tips & tricks, anecdotes, and a bit about my sketch trip to Southeast Asia in early 2016. I loved putting this together!

Some illustrations I did for @broadlytv in December & January. Lots of criminal justice-related projects. Looks like I’m really in an orange + teal phase.  1. A Mother, Serving 15 Years for Marijuana, Makes Last-Minute Plea for Freedom 2. The Devastating Effects of a 1940s 'Wonder Pill' Haunt Women Generations Later 3. After Surviving Torture, Noura Al-Jizawi Is Fighting for Other Syrian Prisoners 4. Amanda Knox: Why Do Innocent Women Confess to Crimes They Didn’t Commit?