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17 july 2008
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some girls
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i just finished these girls last week. they're for the new moon girls street team
and are gonna end up on certificates and bookmarks and stuff like that. i might get
to do buttons and other such schwaggy items later on (maybe... posters? ooo).
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21 june 2008
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elephant gocco print
A caterpillar-legged painted elephant carries a 3-story howdah full of party people on its back
into the night. The hand on the blanket is called a hamsa. It's for warding off the evil eye
specifically, and for good luck generally.
prints (and a larger view)
are available at my etsy shop!
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26 may 2008
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mermaid gocco print
9 undersea inhabitants surround a tattooed mermaid holding a love letter in a bottle.
awww, this picture reminds me of every long-distance relationship i've ever had.
i've made several prints
which are available at my etsy shop.
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7 may 2008
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everything BLUE!
my newest gocco print is about bowerbirds. have you heard of them? they're australian birds
that love the color blue. to attract the ladies, the males build bowers out of sticks and strew
blue things they've collected all around it. AMAZING.
i've
made a bunch of prints and they're available at my etsy shop.
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24 april 2008
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yay! grr! yay! grr! yay! grr!
happy girl / angry girl time again! starting in july, these two will be running all year in
new moon magazine's
howling at the moon and how aggravating columns.
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14 april 2008
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wee babe
a tiny tea painting (about 3"x4") for margot's 0th birthday. the snail-plus-rigging
was inspired by indian elephants.
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28 march 2008
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noc(olor)turnal
this is a color version of a gocco print
i made a few months ago.
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4 march 2008
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tea painting for margot
escargots and an overgrown garden were requested for this painting. i picked
fritillaria meleagris cuz i first saw them in seattle, where margot's gonna be born. foxgloves and
poppies are flowers i always want to have in my garden, but inevitably murder due to my
black thumb. nasturtiums, strawberry, blackberry, and morning glories
can luckily take care of themselves.
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18 december 2007
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january/february 2008 issue of new moon
new moon's getting a new cover design and i got to be the first person to illustrate it!
this is one of those paintings where i'll look at it in a couple years and know exactly
what i was thinking about at the time. brain vomit, seriously!
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this painting is four things mixed up: one, my friend marisa from rochester who has a snake
named bettie page; two, the fact that persimmon trees in the winter look really cool;
three, the fact that i am a sucker for rainbows and stevens
house co-op in ann arbor had irresistible rainbow steps; four,the colors from this
sign in front of arizmendi bakery.
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a tea painting for my big little sister emma!
pogue the kitty-cat died last summer when he was 14 and we miss him. when they were little,
emma used to think she was a witch and poguey was her familiar. she would pin witchy proclamations
on her bedroom door on curling yellowed scrolls. true!
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22 september 2007
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more tea paintings
the nouns given to me for this tea painting were sushi and moon. i dunno about you,
but i find it pretty frustrating when my food floats off into space during dinner.
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the noun was jungle, and it was painted for baby lucas. i kept singing "jungle baby"
to the tune of kool & the gang's "jungle boogie" while i was painting it.
yes, kool & the gang.
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upcoming for new moon...
illustrations for an advice column. the question was, "should you tell on your
class-skipping friends?" for what it's worth, the illustrator thinks you should only
tell on your friends if they're mortally imperiled. friends who skip class are important
to have in your life cuz they are the key to fun. but if they stress you out too much,
it's okay to alternate them with other friends who are more considerate of your anxiety.
that way, you have twice as many friends and 100% of your sanity! these paintings feature
my sister lucy, who is one of the
two cutest girls in the whole world (the other being my sister emma).
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i also finished my second ever zits illustration. the first one i did
was black and white, so this time i made sure to realize the full juicy potential of zits in color.
the editor suggested a winter activity scene, and i thought of my
boyfriend's hero, hannah teter. after winning the snowboarding gold
medal, hannah said, "check out my bling!"
so i guess my point is: don't
let zits stop you from throwin' it down, kids!!
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18 june 2007
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check out my new etsy shop!
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16 may 2007
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a friend gave me a noun (gerber daisies) and a secondary noun (trike) and
commissioned me to do a tea and watercolor painting for him, as well.
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4 may 2007
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this is a logo that's being used to get the word out about the new theme for
new moon's 25 beautiful girls 2008 issue.
white polka dots on red... so satisfying...
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stripey fish are satisfying to paint, too.
this was a commission for a baby named beck. it's watercolor on apricot black tea-soaked
paper. it smelled delicious! usually i don't drink such sissy tea, but my genmai cha
wasn't dark enough.
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21 february 2007
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when you're reading, do you sometimes hear a funny
skritchy noise inside your skull, followed by an umbrella-opening sort of pop?
it's your brains growing. if you'd like
a postcard of this painting, send me
your address!
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i've done a bunch of stuff for new moon magazine
in the last few months. these two will be running all year in
their howling at the moon and how aggravating columns.
it's kind of liberating to paint an angry kid. kids always look
so darn happy.
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i also illustrated an article about food myths --you know, the lies your
parents told you in order to choke down this or that odious bit of dinner--
and a story about some time traveling girls. strangely enough, i found a trumpet
in our oubliette to draw from. we forgot we had one.
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1 may 2006
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sometimes when you're at a slumber party, do things get a little
out of hand and suddenly your bed is sprouting leaves like
in this cover for
new moon magazine?
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1 january 2006
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these will be running all year in the "howling at the moon" / "how aggravating"
columns in new moon. i also have an
illustration in
cricket magazine this month.
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31 october 2005
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i have
prints available for sale from the good folks at
thumbtack press.
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2 september 2005
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the book i worked on this spring is officially out!
to make the illustrations, i listened to a lot of
the old 97s, patsy cline, johnny cash, and the
amelie soundtrack. i also
had to turn my austin nostalgia knob to 11.
the soup peddler's slow and difficult soups
by david ansel
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30 august 2005
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some new illustrations for the september/october issue of
new moon magazine.
i pretty much kept to five colors plus white, which is new for me.
usually i like to go all punky brewster with the color schemes.
the series accompanies an article by zoe trope, who writes about publishing
a book she wrote in high school called please don't kill the freshman.
i hear the magazine's now thirteen years old. no doubt it'll become all contentious
and persnickety to the editors, and start replying to innocent questions with "WHAT??"
in that exasperated teenager way.
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1 june 2005
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Dress Up was done for a story out right now in the
May/June issue of New Moon Magazine. It's about a girl who loves to wear crazy clothes,
much like me in high school.
I liked to dress up before I went to babysit, too, because the kids would be completely fascinated.
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30 january 2005
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i've been playing with gouache, trying to deal with all the planning and messiness.
shedding and featherpile
are the results.
the paper boat, however, was done in my usual layered and ponderous style.
there's also an illustration for new moon magazine about women and fashion.
i'm jealous of the first girl on the page -- i'd like those clothes!
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