Category: Pacific Northwest
-
Grab your Bridge partner
They’re here! At long last, the Red Deck of the Tacoma Playing Cards is finished, printed and delivered. (You’ll have to excuse my cheesy phone photos—I was just too excited to dig out the fancy camera.) It’s so great to see the finished product, and how well everyone’s artwork reproduced at playing-card size. But you…
-
Island cure
If you’re like me, and you need a break from the studio every once in a while, I’d recommend hopping on a ferry and heading for the San Juan Islands. Spend a few days soaking up the sights, and maybe bring along your paintbox. I guarantee, you’ll leave refreshed and good as new.
-
Seattle shenanigans
Jessica and I (and our friend Caitlyn) were invited to have a table at this yesterday’s Wayzgoose at the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle. We didn’t contribute a steamroller print this time, so it was fun to just be part of the audience outside, and enjoy the show! I love the sort of mischief…
-
Center stage
I’m pleased to be able to show off a couple of brand new illustrations! The Broadway Center for the Performing Arts commissioned me to illustrate their two historic theatres to kick off their new capitol campaign. They’ll be restoring and spiffing up these grand dames in time for their centennial in a few years, so…
-
The canning season
It’s the time of year where our kitchen is a lot hotter—and the days much longer—than anything summer might throw at us naturally. The Tailor and I have been up late with the dilly beans, out at dawn at the Blueberry Park, and across the mountains to get peaches right off the tree. And then…
-
Five.
I moved to Washington five years ago today. In that time, I’ve enjoyed a whole lot of apples, beheld countless spectacular views, stared out to sea a zillion times, stood beside many lit (and unlit) beacons, memorized every crag of my favorite mountain, lost count of all the city sunsets (even in the rainy Northwest!),…
-
Victoria the Second
I just got back from a return trip to Victoria—this time with the Tailor in tow. We were only there for a couple of days, but long enough for me to see the Gardens—and sketch them— —in their summer colors. This was the Tailor’s first trip to Victoria, so I got to relive some favorite…
-
The sincerest form of flattery
The other day I received the most peculiar thing in the post, from a couple who had recently purchased my Local Conditions artist book. I opened it up, and inside was their own version of the book, made out of vintage postcards! I’m pretty sure this is, hands down, the best thing anyone has ever…
-
Fresh for summer
I just finished decking out Dandelion Wishes with new handmade shop decorations for summer! I took down the robin’s eggs, daffodils and rain clouds of the spring window dressing, and traded them for ice cream cones, sea stars, sunglasses and a whole flock of wheeling seagulls. So if you’re local, swoop on down and check…
-
Reading rotunda
More than a thousand towns and cities in the U.S. are lucky enough to have had a Carnegie Library under their belt, and Tacoma is no exception. Today, our Carnegie Library is a wing of the expanded main campus of the Tacoma Public Library—and the rotunda now houses the fabulous Northwest Room, the ultimate resource…