Birds on the feeder

I have a birdfeeder outside the window where I work and it attracts all manner of little songbirds, mostly finches. I have a handy copy of Birds of North America on my desk so I’ve managed to identify most of them.

Here are 3 birds I see regularly on the feeder: slate juncos, white-breasted nuthatches, pine grosbeak (red finch). I used to see them more often, but my neighbour cut down a bunch of foliage on his side of the fence and so the birds have less cover now and don’t frequent my feeder as much 🙁

Men’s Health & Philadelphia Magazine

This summer I drew a lot of chefs. First I drew four chefs for Men’s Health magazine.

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Then I drew 10 pastry chefs for Philadelphia Magazine!

And delicious food! (drawing cookies makes me want to eat cookies)

 

Happy Easter

I hope you all had a nice long weekend. I don’t care much for Easter as a religious holiday, but have always loved all the springtime and cute bunny imagery (and the Cadbury cream eggs I used to receive, ha!). I have lots of Easter decorations in our house up year-round because they’re too cute to put away.

It’s definitely the first sign of spring in Westport; pretty soon the tulips and irises will be blooming in my garden. It never gets old!

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Couches for Avenue Magazine

I illustrated a few different types of couches for Avenue Magazine’s February issue. I now know exactly what a chesterfield is! My Grandma used it to describe every couch, when she in fact had a mid-century modern sofa, not a chesterfield. You learn something new every day.

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Spread for Avenue Magazine

I had the opportunity to work with AD Venessa Brewer on Avenue’s  holiday gift guide spread. It features my portraits as well as several line drawings that were incorporated with the product photos.

I had so much fun working on these drawings!