Hi there!

Thanks for dropping by! I'm an illustrator. I live in Baltimore with my husband and my dog, Frisket. Mayber art-points if you got the reference!

Like many artists, I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil. Lucky for me my parents are both creative, so I always had plenty of support (and art supplies). Here's six-year old me tearing it UP at the school book fair poster contest.

That's the Grade 1 champion right there. Look at that game face! (Mental note: Never use my elementary school as a security question.)

Naturally I put my mad poster-making skills to use throughout school. In my final year of high school, when other seniors were leaving early, I filled out my day by taking four art electives. The art program was pretty solid. We did block printing, metal working, stained glass, photography, and ceramics, to name a few. By that point art school was all but inevitable.

After graduation I landed at Savannah College of Art & Design, where I studied video production and discovered a love for sequential art, aka comics and storyboarding. Art AND storytelling? That's a good combination.

After that, one of my classmates got me a job which is how I fell into graphic design. I loved it because I got to do cool creative projects for big name clients, and of course since I was coming up with the concepts, I made sure I got to illustrate at every opportunity.

Which basically leads me to now, because I'm still illustrating at every opportunity. My head is filled with countless things I want to draw and techniques I want to master. I left the world of graphic design to illustrate full time. But as the saying goes, you can take the girl out of graphic design, but you can't take graphic design out of the girl (that's it, right?), so I'm constantly calling on my two (yikes!) decades of experience in print, web, and brand identity design.

Whoa are you still reading? Holy cow, you rule!

My favorite thing in the world apart from drawing, dogs, and my husband (not necessarily in that order) is traveling. I especially love sketching in new places.

Here are a few glimpses of my travel sketchbook:

I've been to nineteen different countries so far (twenty if you count airports but who does that?) and four continents, so I've still got a long way to go to catch up with my grandmother, who used to send me postcards and presents from all around the world...places like Kenya, Egypt, Mongolia, plus a few countries that don't even exist anymore.

I'm unbelievably happy to work in a field that lets me create beautiful things and go to cool places.

If you'd like to inquire about a commission or collaboration, or just say hi, you can send an email via the contact form or message me on Instagram.

I'd love to hear from you!

Select Clients:

Candlewick
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Sasquatch
Blue Star Press
Running Press
Rebel Girls
The Washington Post
The Star Tribune
The Wall Street Journal
eeBoo
Roger la Borde
Studio Eleven Papers

Q&A

Favorite media?
Colored pencils, watercolor, pastels, & gouache. I tend to finish things digitally.

Favorite city?
Rome but there are so many close seconds!

Favorite book?
His Dark Materials (The Amber Spyglass if I have to choose one). I love it when it gets quantum!

Favorite Disney movie?
No contest. 101 Dalmations. Gimme them puppies!

Favorite color?
Not purple, but also I use purple a lot.

What would you be if you weren't an artist?
Particle Physicist. No, seriously. It was art school or physics.

What's the weirdest thing you've designed?
Lifesize holiday characters for a mall in Hong Kong.

Coffee or Tea?
Forever obsessed with iced Royal Milk Tea.

Flight or invisibility?
Invisibility. I can just sneak on a plane.

Control weather or animals?
Gimme them puppieeeeees!

If you had one wish (and don't say world peace)?
Telekinesis. It haunts my dreams.

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