Born of two loving and artistic parents, I was always drawing things for the sole purpose of having them immortalized forever on the fridge. Thankfully, Mom and Dad valued the making of art (even if it consisted of random scribbles that would never look like a mandolin playing platypus, or whatever the topic was at that moment) and encouraged me with kind words. I later discovered the joy of Maurice Sendak, Bill Peet, and Dr. Seuss at the library and fell in love with illustration. Middle school cemented the love, when I found out that the ability to draw Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles could make you popular (if but for the moment). All of these early memories of illustration drove me to Syracuse University, where I received my BFA in Illustration.
After a brief hiatus away from the profession, I decided to jump into the world of freelance illustration and design. I enjoy the challenges of rendering ideas into images and love working with other creative people.
In short, I've given up being popular, but I'd settle to put food on the table doing something I love.
Listening to Laura Gibson... Beasts of Seasons “Spirited”
Advent of the iPad and IllustrationPosted to my blog, STUFF + THINGS on July 13th 2011
Hype about gadgets that can transform your life have been around for years. (I thought, briefly and perhaps a tad creepily, that the x-ray specs found in the back of my Spider-Man comics would change my adolescent life.) Hype that transforms into practical application? The rarest of finds. Hype that has the power to re-build hope in an industry that is cynical and all too often scared? Amazing. That's been my opinion sitting in the back of the room watching the dance between the iPad and the illustration field unfold... read →
