Watching the funeral procession of John Lewis yesterday as it made its way across the Edmund Pettus Bridge was a moving event. We all remembered the bloodshed of 55 years ago, now represented so poetically by the rose petals strewn along his path; a path that changed America. The words he leaves us with sum […]
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I’m excited to introduce Armchair Travels, an invitation to travel around the world through the reportage illustration of Studio 1482. We have gathered art from our travels to share with you, in the hopes that while you can’t get out and see these places (yet), our experiences may bring some happiness and light to your […]
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Very happy to be invited by Isabel Carmona and Jeffrey de Bruin to participate in Drawn Poetry 2020, “an international project to create something beautiful while we are all at home during these difficult times, to share with others, creating a body of work as a collective.” The work of all the invited artists will […]
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I recently had the opportunity to create these illustrations for the Washington Post’s “Local Living” section, for an article about gardening tasks to be done during the winter months. I really enjoyed the chance to play with a winter palette in this; thank Victoria for the fun project! You can see the article online HERE.
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Two weeks ago I ran the New York City Marathon to raise funds for Gilda’s Club, an organization that provides FREE cancer support for cancer patients and their families. I ran in honor of my beautiful sister Patty, who lost her fight with breast cancer in 2014. Gilda’s Club provided her with a lot of […]
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Very happy and honored to receive news that the City Explorer children’s game installation at the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital received an Honor Award from the SEGD (Society of Experiential Design.) When Matthew McNerney, then creative director at Potion, called me to do some illustration work for a new project they were beginning, I had no […]
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I had the honor and pleasure this past weekend to be one of 16 artists invited to participate in the New York Botanical Garden’s 4th Annual Plein-Air Invitational, hosted by the artist James Gurney. Mr. Gurney is so generous in his teaching, with many excellent videos online, that I was not surprised to discover that […]
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So happy that this reportage illustration I did of the bicycle traffic in Amsterdam was Selected to be in American Illustration 38, alongside many other wonderful illustrations from my peers. Thank you to Regina Wolek and Lonely Planet for the feature, and to the jury and American Illustration! See feature from the December 2018 issue […]
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About a week ago, I heard that the Society of Illustrators sketch night was going to be a Moulin Rouge theme, hosted by the incredible Bill Donovan. I took the opportunity, as my friend Kati said, to have “my own personal Toulouse-Lautrec experience.” Apparently I am not the only one who harbors this fantasy, […]
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Nice to receive news that a series of illustrations I did for Forager boutique liquors have been shortlisted for the CA 2019 Illustration competition! I’m honored to be included with so many talented illustrators, and I’m sure that the elegant design by Patty Driskel-Devlin and Mark Oliver contributed to the overall impact of the […]
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