On Making A Book (Part 3): Where words + images converge

Once the words were done, I threw myself into the unfamiliar, beautiful, terrifying territory of illustrating. I was wholly, utterly, entirely consumed. I spilled india ink twice. I wore the same jeans for a week, paint accumulating across my thighs. I skipped class. I considered only this: How the images I was creating might tell [...]

{I am still here}

…Finishing this book. Breathing. Getting paint everywhere. Discovering + remembering what it means to be an artist like this: Courage. Revisions. Messes. Risk. It is time consuming. All consuming. It is terrifying. It is transformative. It is glorious. It is exhausting. (Hoping to be finished Monday.) What I really need now is good music to [...]

Closer every day

Just a quick note to share some studio snapshots I took today… and to to say thank you for all your encouragement. It means the world to me. Tweet

On making space for the work I am doing:

Hello friends! My semester ended today, and fall is in the air even though it’s August still. You can feel it in the way the breeze is cool coming through the open windows in the morning, and the light is golden and slanted as it angles across the mountains after dinner. Twilight is already coming [...]

A glimpse into my studio right now:

Working on illustrations for the book. Mixed media collage + digital + graphite sketches. // Also: A midsummer migrane; cicadas singing into late evening.; trying to remember to drink enough water + follow garment care instructions for washing; wishing for decompression; wrapping up projects for the summer semester; singing songs to Sprout until he falls [...]