Creating

I start thinking about my holiday card around mid-summer. There are three stages to my process: design, engineering, production. By September I’m usually already experimenting with paper and other materials. (If I don’t have a final […]

I recently entered this drawing in a local juried art show. Sadly, it wasn’t accepted, but it was fun to create none-the-less. The drawing is based on the cumulative children’s song There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed

Like many people, I’ve always loved looking at maps. The idea of taking invisible elements like property lines and borders and having them appear defined both confuses and amuses me. I started my map study with the two places closest to

Having waited too long to start creating a handmade holiday card for this year, I think I might draw something and then have it printed on note cards. This is my first attempt, as well as my final

  One of the things I enjoy most about my vegetable garden is photographing the harvest. Cutting open this Early Girl tomato inspired me to sketch it out.

I’ve often thought about incorporating text into my designs, but it is only recently that this has begun to take shape. This piece, 9″x12″, was commissioned as an engagement gift for a lovely couple that I know

  In early fall, 2012, the Columbia County Council on the Arts announced a juried show called Poets and Painters. Artists were asked to enter work that was inspired by poetry. The piece I submitted was