Category: Lettering
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Hedge trimmings
Look! I made an alphabet! It’s funny—I almost never design an entire alphabet. In general, lettering projects just don’t really work like that. Most of the time, a letterer(erer) designs only the letterforms required for the word or phrase they’re lettering. That’s really the best way to create letter styles (which are not the same…
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Focal Point
If you earn your living by drawing pictures, you have to spend a lot of time with your head down and your eyes on your paper. Yet at this time of year, with spring coming along fast (at least in the Northwest…), life hurries by at a frantic pace. I hate the idea of missing…
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Packaging, pencilling
I’m working on several new things this week, including some new cards and another Dead Feminist broadside. Stay tuned!
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My crafty Valentine
Here they are! My new line of bird illustrations has arrived, just in (the nick of) time for Valentine’s Day. In the shop you’ll find snazzy new postcards… …gift tags (I’m particularly excited about these)… …and even fun temporary tattoos! This is all just a taste of what I’ve got planned for this year—look for…
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Cold studio, warm palette
For the past few days I’ve been painting while wrapped in a thick wool shawl and wearing fingerless gloves—but howl as it might, no polar vortex can dim my bright tropical paints. I’m putting the finishing touches on a few new goodies, just in time for Valentine’s Day. If you’re local, you can find them…
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In the news
I woke up this morning to find a big article about my You’ll Like Tacoma exhibit in the News Tribune! Huge thanks to Rosemary Ponnekanti for interviewing me and for the kind review of my show!
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You’ll Like Tacoma
The Pacific Northwest is a treasure trove of vintage neon typography, preserved into the modern landscape of our cities. Despite the best preservation efforts, however, there are still many examples that have long since passed into history. These ghosts of Tacoma are the ones I’ve chosen to resurrect for my You’ll Like Tacoma series of…
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Yep, I like Tacoma
Many thanks to everyone who braved the cold to come to the You’ll Like Tacoma opening last night! As always, I forgot to take photos—the only one I managed to snag was this crummy phone snap. But we had a great turnout of folks of all ages (“kids from 1 to 92…”), and lots of…
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These little lights of mine
It’s the new year—time to hang some new artwork. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve got a new solo exhibit opening this Thursday! The show is in the most unlikely of places: a dentist’s office. I kid you not. But Dr. Jamie Brooks (we all call her Dr. Jamie) is no ordinary dentist, and her…
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Clean palette, clean slate
The holidays are done, and January is here—and that means it’s time to get back to work. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready.