Illustrations
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Sons of Pitches 2
After I gifted this sketch to the performers I’d drawn, they reached out to ask for another drawing to use on future bills. Without the band performing in front of me, I grabbed stills from a YouTube video of their performance, which you can watch here: First, of course, the sketch: Then linework, where I…
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Cosmo’s cosmos
A pet portrait painted in jelly gouache on a drink board for a friend’s wedding.
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Chickadee in a cherry tree
For my future mother-in-law’s birthday this year, I wanted to give her a memento that would suit the colors of her newly decorated home office. For a pink-and-white theme, of course I’ll choose cherry blossoms! There were many, many iterations of composition before I landed on one that felt right. My fiancé helped break me…
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Mechanicsburg Art & Wine Walk 2025
Hiding from the rain (that never came) at the Mechanicsburg Art & Wine Walk, I painted this indoor scene of Revolutionary Hot Sauce while enjoying lots of great conversation. I love how artistically curious people are in this town! Great day; can’t wait for next year! Materials: Himi jelly gouache on Arches hot pressed watercolor…
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Half-dome
An ink illustration of Yosemite’s Half-Dome, completed for my sister on her birthday. I’m having lots of fun with grayscale ink-washes lately. This sketch of a local bookstore was almost a practice run for inking Half-Dome. Returning to my ink pot and dip pens was also a refreshing change of pace after many recent outings…
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Revolutionary keychain
Designed in collaboration with Platts Fabrication. I drew the “Revolutionary” for this custom 3D-printed keychain.
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Blue hydrangeas
This started as a small sketch to test out Copic alcohol markers. But they were so fun to use that I couldn’t stop 🙂
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Blue flag irises
Illustrated for my mom’s birthday years ago, based on a photo of blue flag irises from a neighbor’s yard. Lines are sumi (charcoal) ink applied with dip pen. Colors are Copic alcohol markers.
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Tree-lined country road
One of my first plein-air paintings, in pallet watercolors on Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper. A windy day made this on-site painting a struggle.
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Daffodils and ladybug
Lines are sumi (charcoal) ink, applied with a dip pen on Bristol board. Colors are Copic alcohol markers. Illustrated for my grandmothers’s 80th birthday.
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D.Gray-man page redraw
A redraw of page 27 of the first volume of the manga series D.Gray-man, which I completed as part of a 20th anniversary fan-led redraw project. The original page on which I based my new layout can be seen below. You can read the full zine here (pages turn in right-to-left manga format). The password…
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Tree-lined rural road
Medium: Watercolors on Arches hot-press watercolor paper This piece was painted “en plain air,” meaning that I packed up my paints and set up an easel to paint outdoors. The scene is a country road from the vantage point of a public hiking trail.
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Sunflower bouquet
Medium: sumi ink (charcoal based) on Leuchtturm sketchbook paper A relaxing illustration based on a bouquet I bought a friend for her birthday. It’s embellished a bit from the irl flowers. Available in shop:
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Blue flag irises on yellow and gold
Medium: sumi ink (charcoal based) lines with Copic alcohol-based marker colors on Bristol board One of the houses on my block has a wild, overgrown yard filled with native plants. These irises come up there in spring, and I have several dozen pictures of them on my phone—they’re so eye-catching! The original of this print…
