POOL DEBRIS + LANTERNS

While visiting my dad and stepmom's farm this weekend, a storm knocked out the power the first night we were there. It was tough to be without water, power, internet/phone and A/C, but there was a deep relaxation in being disconnected.

ICON7

 The What Cheer Brigade

Lynda Barry and Matt Groening

Unidentified collaborative pattern from Julia Rothman's workshop

Ceramic sculpture from Eun-Ha Paek at the Rhode Show

Paul Sahre and Brian Rea discuss their collaboration for Malcolm Gladwell's Collected.

Esther Pearl Waston and "The In Between"

After running a children's picture book process workshop at ICON6, I just couldn't get enough and joined the board of directors for ICON7 (the illustration conference). It was one of the best creative experiences I've ever had. I wish I had taken more photos.

AIMEE SICURO + ONE YEAR IN COAL HARBOR

I recently worked with Aimee Sicuro on a jacket for the esteemed children's book author Polly Horvath. It was a great project, and Aimee has posted about it. I should add that these jackets wouldn't be what they are without the wisdom and input of the publishers that I work for; Lee Wade and Anne Schwartz.

MAY B. + CHRIS SILAS NEAL

 

I haven't talked about my work at Schwartz & Wade Books yet. MAY B., by Caroline Starr Rose, and Illustrated by Chris Silas Neal, was recently published. I had long wanted to work with Chris, and this book gave me the opportunity. Chris wrote about the process of illustrating this jacket on his blog a while back.
UPDATE: Here's another interview with Chris about his process.

SKETCHES OF BABY, BEFORE BABY

I was looking back at some sketches I made while I was pregnant, and it's humorous to see how I visualized having a baby. In one image Alex is under the table, in a basket. There are other baskets nearby, one of some fish, one of plants. He's just one of our things that we keep in a basket which is rather close to a large body of water. In the other image, he's just one of our things again. . . like we're adding to our collection of stuff.

NESTING

Thinking about home a lot these days.

LEANNE SHAPTON

The palette and simplicity of these paintings have me gasping for air.

CHESTER ON PARADE

My ode to Chester is on parade with other lovely dogs in Sweden, at gallery Sodraesplanaden.