Governor's Island Studio

I got the wonderful opportunity to have a studio in an old house on Governor's Island since the beginning of August. The space was given to the teaching artists at the Children's Museum of the Arts, where I work.

I've been super busy since August but I have tried really hard to get out to the island at least once a week to work in the studio. I am working on a couple larger pieces there that are inspired in various ways by Governor's Island.
Here is a detail of one of the works in progress:

I have the space until the beginning of October and I hope to make some real progress on the pieces I've started in the next couple of weeks. I'll update with more images of the work as it progresses.

Teeny Tiny Art Show #7 Opens Tonight!

I'm excited to once again to have my work in the Teeny Tiny Art Show at Three Graces Gallery in Portsmouth, NH.

The show opens tonight and runs through September 26th. You can also see all the work online in the Three Graces online store.

Photos from Silver Circle Studio Illustration Show

Time for an update, finally! I haven't kept up with my blogging lately because I've been busy teaching photography at the Creative Arts at Park program for the past 5 weeks.

The illustration show at the Silver Circle Studio in Putnam, CT ended today. Here are a couple pictures of my work in the show:



The show looked really great and I was very happy to be a part of it! Stay tuned for news about upcoming shows that I will be a part of this coming fall.

Illustration Show at the Silver Circle Studio, June 23 - August 1

I have some work in the annual Illustration show at the Silver Circle Gallery in Putnam, Connecticut starting today. The opening for the show is this Friday, June 25th from 6-8pm. The show will be up through August 1st. If you happen to be in the area, I hope you can check it out!

Illustration Friday: "Trail"

I haven't taken a shot at an Illustration Friday topic in quite a while. But this past week I found myself a bit stuck for what to work on, and that is always a great time to do an IF drawing. The topic this week is "trail." I imagined this bicycle traveling down this twisty, turning trail to... I am not sure where.

Recent work for the Boston Globe

A couple weeks ago I had an illustration in the Boston Globe's "Globe 100" Magazine.

This illustration was for an article about how JetBlue is encouraging its customers to buy credits to offset their carbon footprint from flying. You can read the article on the Globe's website.
Here is how it looked with the article in the magazine:

Drawings as Gifts

Recently, I've done a couple gift drawings for people. The first was a portrait of my mother.

This was done as a birthday present for her. She had requested that I draw her a portrait of her for her birthday. I was a little nervous because doing portraits of people can be kind of a tricky thing and there is always the danger they won't like it. But she seems to have liked it and it was a successful gift!

This second drawing I gave to my boss who left the Children's Museum of the Arts last month. (I work there part-time as a teaching artist).

I took this drawing as an opportunity to play more with ink blotches and letting the ink flow uncontrolled a bit in the drawing. I think the results came out pretty good as well, and I will definitely be playing more with that in the future.