A sad polar bear for the Philadelphia City Paper

I have been working on a bunch of projects recently that will be published in the coming month or so.
This one hit the streets today for the Philadelphia City Paper:

It is for this week's cover story on Philadelphia's green future.

You can check out the final cover with text and all right here.

New little drawing

Here is a little drawing I did this past week.

I am working on some more small-scale pieces this month. This one is 6x9 inches. You can also buy a lovely little print of this one at my etsy store.

Work accepted to Illustration West 47

My drawing "Crafting in Brooklyn" was accepted into this year's Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles Show; Illustration West 47. The show will be up in March at Gallery Nucleus.

CatNotes and cat pillows at Renegade Handmade

I have posted about this before, but I thought it was worth mentioning again that the cat pillows I made last summer are now only available through Renegade Handmade in Chicago. But, luckily, they have an online store now in case you happen to not live in Chicago.
Here's the link to everything by me that is currently available online:
http://www.renegadehandmade.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=44

I have decided that in the new year I need to figure out a place to silkscreen in Brooklyn and start making more of those pillows. They are hilarious.

'Crafting in Brooklyn' print featured on the Etsy blog

I just discovered my drawing "Crafting in Brooklyn," which I sell as a print on Etsy, was featured on the Etsy blog in a post all about Brooklyn. How special to be mentioned in a post all about the borough that I love! Read all about it here:
Etsy: The Brooklyn Skyline

New Work: Seattle Weekly cover and personal piece... all about WOLVES.

I did a cover for the Seattle Weekly last week (on newsstands this week). The story was about a family who took advantage of an older woman and stole a lot of money from her. The sketches for the illustration went through a number of phases as the art director and I worked out the concept. Finally we settled on this conceptual solution of a wolf-tree with a sheep stuck in the branches. This image came originally from working on the concept of "a wolf in sheep's clothing" and finally just became the wolf being the predator and the sheep the prey, much like the family was predatory and the old woman fell prey to them. Here is the final illustration:


Coincidentally, for the past week or so I had been working on a personal piece that also involved a wolf when I got this assignment. So I have been all about wolves all the time for the past couple weeks. I started working on an idea for a Little Red Riding Hood illustration sometime after Thanksgiving. Here is what I finally came up with:

I thought it might be nice to go back to working on fairy tales for my personal pieces. I will try to continue with the theme in the new year.

New editorial and personal work on my website

I just added some new editorial pieces to my website that are being published this month, including this one for Inc Magazine:
This piece was for the magazine's section called "Technology Tools" and the tool for this month was different ways companies get customer feedback.


I also added another drawing to my website that I did for the Itty/Bitty show at Yes Gallery and Studio in Rhode Island, which I got to check out over Thanksgiving weekend.

This was actually my favorite one that I did for that show, and Leigh from Yes mentioned that it was her's as well, and that sort of made me feel like it should be on the website!
I got a bit obsessed with powerlines while I was at the Vermont Studio Center this past August, and I think this drawing was a bit of a holdover from that.