Illustration
It's hard to find fall colors on the west coast, but this Barlett Pear tree leaf proved worthy of colored pencil.
This birch tree lives along the base of Mt. Orient in Pelham, Massachusetts, along the Robert Frost Trail.
A very secret street can lead you to a stunning view of the outer Sunset district in San Francisco. Grand View park is well-named, and it is also actually also an ancient sand dune.
The observatory tower at the De Young museum is free to go to, giving you a 360 degree view of golden gate park, the Richmond district, and land's end.
a color pencil collection of corals that I learned the names of from a trip to the island of Culebra off the coast of Puerto Rico. Fan, Staghorn, Elkhorn, and Brain coral are a few I learned about while snorkeling in the atlantic.
just rocks.
A willow tree outside the high school where I teach in Fremont, CA.
A triptych study of the same barnacle-covered shell in three different positions.
An observational colored pencil illustration
Pacifica Beach seems like a great place to surf. It feels like a sleepy beach town though I once walked there along the coast all the way from Ocean Beach in San Francisco.
These are the granite cliffs lining Benson Lake along Benson Lake Loop in the Sierra Nevada of California.
I created this chickadee mid-flight for a t-shirt design at a company I was interning for once upon a time.
From a sketchbook filled with only pen & ink sketches.
I drew this chameleon with bumpy textured skin for a lesson on texture for my students.
At the end of my student teaching, I created cards for all 35 of my students based on their interests.
Looking through the cypress trees at lands end in San Francisco.
Rosa Bonheur loved animals and her ability to do them justice proved it. I also love horses and I had to give her painting 'The Horse Fair' a try.
These cherry blossoms emerged in early spring in the North End of Boston while I was a dog walker. I took a reference photo on a 35mm camera.
Julian Rix has a wonderful redwood tree sunset landscape at the Oakland Museum. I created this pen replication based on his artwork from the textbook, 'California Art' by Nancy Dustin Wall Moore
This was a study for a bathroom mural never realized. I did create an oil painting based on this illustration and gifted it to my step kid for his birthday.
A very soft and lazy tree on my college campus.
this organic form proved a meditative drawing practice for a time. The forms became somewhat organic, somewhat tumorous.
the aptly named Hobbit Beach is a real place. Following a windy and wooded single track trail, you are led through mosses and tunnels of trees down to a small sandy beach bordered by coastal cliffs.
A fantasy scene created from a photo I took on my 35mm camera while I was a dog walker in Boston, MA.
This was the corner market near my old apartment in Nob Hill of San Francisco. Le Beau market is a neighborhood staple atop Nob Hill, despite Trader Joe's competitive pricing.
This is the view of Mt. Sutro from Hippie hill in Golden Gate Park.
Created from photos during my summer working at Yosemite. The mule featured was my favorite to guide on, by the name of Ghirardelli after the chocolate.
One of my sisters chickens who doesn't mind being held.
A portrait study in charcoal of another Goucher College student sitting in our studio drawing class.
Dune grasses in Provincetown, Massachusetts at Herring Cove beach.
This was my friend posing in the town square in Arcata, CA. That was a wild time working in Yosemite and I challenged myself to work in pen for most of this summer.
this organic form proved a meditative drawing practice for a time. The forms became somewhat organic, somewhat tumorous.
a small wooden sign points towards the trail among the succulents on Channel Island of the coast of Southern California.
a charcoal illustration of my bedside table in college.
from a series of pen & ink artworks when I first moved to California.
a profile portrait observational drawing of my high school Art teacher.