Lizzie Borden Took an Axe...

*Cover Art by Simon & Pulse

©2018 ME

Acclaimed author Dawn Ius contracted me to create/illustrate some promo give aways for her latest novel Lizzie.  (Book is available for pre-order now and available wherever you buy books after March 2018.)

I had an ABSOLUTE BLAST creating visuals for this project! I love true crime and the tale of Lizzie Borden has always stuck in my mind.  I was able to read a few chapters this fall to help me capture the characters and I seriously have not stopped thinking about them.  I cannot wait to read the entire book!

©2018 ME

New Year, New Art, New York...

©2018

©2018

A lot of fun in the pipeline for 2018! Here's a couple more glimpses of a travel adventure that will hopefully be available soon!

An Illustration Collaboration

©2018

My dear friend, who is also a pretty incredible YA author, is collaborating with me on a new project. I can't share the details just yet, but here's a little sample of my art to get you through...

Most wonderful time of the year

Pretty much every part of the year from a work standpoint is the most wonderful.  And right now I have a few exciting projects in my mental crockpot, but they are not quite ready to share..yet... So in the meantime, here's some art I completed this week about a super-fun camp for the animal lover kids in my community. 

To be continued...

Winter Wine, Stein & Spirits at Potter Park Zoo

Seven swans a swimming

My design clients always keep me a few months ahead of the holiday game. Here's a sneak peek at this year's big Winter Wine, Stein & Spirits at Potter Park Zoo.

I paid tribute to the trumpeter swans that grace the zoo and also the 12 Days of Christmas carol.

Hope takes flight in Herbert-Herman Cancer Center

Inspired by the poem "Hope is the thing with feathers," by Emily Dickinson my piece "Hope takes flight," was created through papercut illustration and community participation.

On survivor day, I was joined by cancer patients, families touched by cancer and cancer caregivers to paint their loved one's names or a bit of inspirational messaging. I took the precious notes back to my studio and sliced them into free-flying colorful birds that float through the piece on fishing line. 

This was such an incredible experience from start to finish! I am so thankful for all of the people who helped make it happen: Kelly Gmazel, Chris Tyler, Marsha Cosgrove, Sparrow Women's Board of Managers, Arts Council of Greater Lansing, Image360 - Plymouth MI and Marybeth Swan. 

For those interested in viewing this artwork eyeball to eyeball, it is now installed in it's permanent home outside of Conference Room A in Sparrow Hospital's new Herbert-Herman Cancer Center.

Cowman & Horse

©2017

Extras for a new book I've been hired to illustrate. I labeled them so you could tell the difference...