Everything Talks: You Just Have to Know How to Listen is the second full-color children’s picture book that I illustrated. As the title suggests, the book is about sounds in the world around us. The goal of each illustration is to help evoke the sounds visually. Color, layout and...
I had made a pair of cowboy booties as a shower gift and wanted to follow up with a cowboy boot quilt. I searched through pattern books and online shops and didn’t find any patterns for blocks that I liked. I found many that were appliqué and some that...
I rarely miss the chance to take a workshop from instructor, Steve Pittelkow when he is in town teaching at Asheville BookWorks. He is an amazing marbler and wonderful teacher. I especially recommend his multi-day classes where you spend a day or two creating papers and then another day...
I’ve been working on a series of line drawings for Roly Poly Crafts to screen print on garments: t-shirts, baby one-piece bodysuits, diaper covers and the like. Roly Poly owner, Ruth, has a wonderful sense of hip nostalgia and the selection of images she asked me to draw for...
Historically, Damasks are a style of woven fabric supposed to have originated in the city of Damascus. Modern-day Damasks are commonly single color prints featuring patterns based around floral motifs. The versatility of classic Damasks is evident in the accompanying image from Just Ducky’s Spring 2009 catalog, where the...
