Category: Illustration
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Last call
If you’re local, this is the last week to catch my You’ll Like Tacoma Show on display. So head on downtown to Brooks Dental before the lights turn out!
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Summer sampler
I stopped by the Collins Memorial Library this week to see the new Puget Sound Book Artists exhibition, and look what’s in the show! If you haven’t had a chance to see my Mnemonic Sampler abecedary in person yet, the PSBA folks have it beautifully displayed in one of the wall cases. (The display is…
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Just a snippet
I’ve been drawing a lot of Adirondack chairs lately—which, since I adore them, is just fine with me. I’m working on illustrating another book with Quarto Publishing Group, that will be released in late fall of this year. I can’t share any salient details yet, but I thought I’d show just a wee slice. As…
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Words to live by
I’ve done a lot of lettering commissions in my day, but this was something new for me. When my client approached me about this project, she told me she had spent the past few years working on her personal practice as a writer—as a fellow creative whose work has also been changing lately, I was…
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Making lemonade
Photo by Jessica Spring Jessica has been churning out a crop of lemonade journals lately, including some fun new ones from the outtakes of our Focal Point print. Look for them soon in the shop!
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This American Sketchbook
I cross-posted this (in a slightly different form) over at Drawn the Road Again, but I’m too excited not to share it here, too. After I illustrated two iconic Tacoma theaters, the kind folks at the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts offered me a media sponsorship of one of their upcoming shows. I was…
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Water off a goose’s back
Don’t be distracted by Ric’s smile—see the puddles everywhere? See the winter gear people are wearing? Sunday was the craziest Wayzgoose yet, hands down. That’s because we had both the biggest crowd ever and the worst weather imaginable. So that smile is one of triumph: getting a decent steamroller print that day required beating some…
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Version 10.0
Here we are: year ten. Since the time Jessica Spring founded the Tacoma Wayzgoose all those years ago, it’s become one heckuva beast—and a veritable Tacoma institution. So here are a few sneak peeks of the giant linoleum block Jessica and I are carving—and we’ll reveal all on Sunday: 10th Annual Tacoma Wayzgoose Sunday, April…
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All a-quiver
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting with creating pattern repeats. Surface design (illustrating for textiles and other things that use repeat patterns) is something that has interested me for years and years, but I haven’t had much of a chance to create repeats of my own until now. I’ve been taking an online…
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On the same wavelength
I just picked up a sheet of the new Shirley Chisholm postage stamps—not just because Shirley is awesome, but also because the color scheme matches our Shirley broadside perfectly! (Great minds think alike?)