Painting
Four Eggs
This is a painting about possibility. I like to think about eggs as a source of surprise. Maybe a chicken will hatch, maybe the egg will be hidden, maybe the egg will crack. The eggs are a metaphor for my journey as a creative person. I never know if I’ll finish a project or if someone will like it enough to publish it or display it. But the eggs themselves represent possibility. Many things could happen, and even if very little does, the process is always important. This painting was created using blown-out eggshells about 10 years ago. The eggs are still intact on the painting!
Word River
I first decided to mortar objects to canvas many years ago. This was my first painting using this medium. Mortar is the material builders use between bricks, and I wanted to see if it would work to support objects on my paintings. It did! Try it out! Mortar can be purchased at the hardware store, and you can find your own stones in nature. Wear a mask when you use the mortar, and have an adult help you if you are under 18!
The river in this picture dissolves the words and letters so they are only a blur. The bars try to hold in the river but can’t. People often think of words as being “forever,” but they too can be fleeting.
Dress Dream
I hate to wear dresses, but I often dream about them. This image includes the shape of a dress and words that have come to me in dreams. I used bright colors too, as my dreams are often vivid and colorful.
Cartooning
Twin Baby Bottles
When I first had my twins, I loved to draw the funny things they would do. They both held their bottles upside down the first time they held them on their own!
Queer Baby Shark Family
There are so many ways that families can be constructed! The babyshark song by Pinkfong only tells one of them. Here is another way!
Seagull School 1
I created some cartoons for Long Beach Island’s The SandPaper. Seagulls often come close when you bring food on the beach! Seagulls used to love my twins’ Gerber Puffs!
Illustration
Logan
This is the protagonist (main character) in a new picture book I’m writing. Logan wrote a book! But he can’t find where he put it!
For my illustrations, I use a mix of Procreate on the iPad and watercolors and marker on paper!
Gael
Gael is a character in another picture-book-in-progress. For some reason, people think that ghosts are the spirits of dead people; in this book, they are really just another species! Most ghosts are invisible, but Gael turns purple and shoots out glitter when he’s excited. Plus, his mom can never get him to make his bed.
New Ghost Banquet
This is a page for a graphic novel I’ve been working on called Ghost Beach Island. As you can see, I love to think about ghosts and who they are! In Ghost Beach Island, the only way to stay a ghost is to complete your community service on Ghost Beach Island, but Jill is the first to refuse to do community service. She wants to go back to the world of the living, and she can’t understand why her ghost-mates want to stay on Ghost Beach Island.