This is what I managed to capture right before our trip to Vancouver this week. I did some en plein air pencil sketches of Port Moody, but now I’d like to capture a couple of our day trip activities, including our visit to a glacial lake, renting a canoe, and eating salmon jerky on a […]
Packing List
Originally published in September 2017 in Blog
Freelance life
Originally published in August 2017 in Blog
When there’s no watercooler, just silence, you have to rely on discipline and humor to beat back the latest news on #genderwars, #Trump and our pooched #environment. Did I miss anything? Another freelance achievement sticker to add to Jeremy Nguyen’s fun series for the The New Yorker. (Bushwick Daily) #DailyShouts I’ve rolled these into my […]
Freelance Achievement Stickers
Originally published in August 2017 in Blog
Coney Island
Originally published in July 2017 in Blog
In the summer of 1927, New Yorkers flooded to The Cyclone, Coney Island’s newest ride engineered by inventor Harry C. Baker. “Let’s go for a wild ride,” they told their friends and family members. A giant chain slowly pulled the three-car train up the wooden tracks to the zenith — it was a rattly, herky […]
I made my first wallpaper pattern
Originally published in June 2017 in Blog
I designed this “Summer Lovin’”wallpaper pattern for The Merchant Tavern‘s beer, wine, and sangria station at the #AdelaideEatsTo Summer Food Market. It’s open M-F, 11 am – 9 pm at the corner of University and Adelaide, upper deck. I learned how to make wallpaper patterns in a great Skillshare video by Julia Rothman (Thank you, Julia, for […]
Kara Walker
Originally published in May 2017 in Blog
Kara Walker is one of seven artists profiled in the April 17-30 edition of New York Magazine (still on many newsstands). Doreen St. Felix describes a black female artist who is acutely aware that her work and persona are a lightning rod for the pathologies that are everywhere in the U.S. “She knows that putting […]
Artist toolkit
Originally published in May 2017 in Blog
