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The year in review 2023

This year I actually felt like I needed a break during the holidays. November and December were extremely busy with deadlines, getting ready for the Fat Goose Craft Fair with our Every Chip Stand project, and sewing for a costuming event. I’m happy with the illustrations I churned out this year but feel like it’s not a lot to show for 365 days.

Here is a gallery of pretty much everything I drew this year, either for editorial clients, or gifts for family, or plein-air in England or for Every Chip Stand. At the end, enjoy a few of my costuming projects.

re:Porter Magazine
re:Porter Magazine
re:Porter Magazine
Every Chip Stand
Every Chip Stand
Diablo Magazine
Every Chip Stand
Food & Wine Magazine
re:Porter Magazine
re:Porter Magazine
commission
portrait of my husband http://www.joelkimmel.comJoel Kimmel
family gift
family gift
Every Chip Stand
family gift
Every Chip Stand
re:Porter Magazine
Milwaukee Magazine
re:Porter Magazine
First fruits of Zion
re:Porter Magazine
Every Chip Stand
Every Chip Stand
re:Porter Magazine
personal piece
Seattle Met Magazine
Every Chip Stand
Every Chip Stand
THIS Magazine
Every Chip Stand
Every Chip Stand
Vancouver Magazine
plein air sketch
plein air sketch
plein air sketch
plein air sketch
plein air sketch
plein air sketch
Regency era outfit
1850s era dress and bonnet

Sketching in Iceland

Joel and I recently rented a campervan and toured around the Westfjords and a bit of the north of Iceland. We had a fun trip, but the weather was definitely not conducive to plein air sketching (rain and gale-force winds) but we managed to get four paintings in regardless.

Prints are available in my Etsy shop

Dorset and the Jurassic Coast – plein air sketching

Joel and I finally had the chance to go back to one of our favourite destinations: England! We spent two weeks there in total, the first 5 days in London and the next 10 days touring the New Forest then heading into Dorset, the Jurassic Coast and ending up in Lyme Regis. We were excited to get back into plein air sketching again (it’s always more fun when you’re on a trip).

We had an absolutely amazing time! We had two weeks of sun and beautiful spring weather. It did us a world of good 🙂

Prints are available to purchase in my Etsy shop.

Corfe Castle view from the village of Corfe.
Corfe Castle
Easily our most ambitious subject; the Helter Skelter in Weymouth.
Working on the Helter Skelter sketch.
Thomas Hardy’s Cottage.
Joel and I at Thomas Hardy’s cottage.
view of Lyme Regis.
Beautiful day for sketching in Lyme Regis.
On our way back to London, we stopped in at Monticute House with its “wibbly wobbley” hedges.
Another view of Elizabethean mansion Monticute House.
And of course, a trip to England is incomplete without the requisite afternoon tea, this one at the Dalloway Terrace in London.

Chip stands for Chatelaine Magazine

It’s nice when a side-project gets you paying work! Joel Kimmel and I teamed up (as Every Chip Stand) to illustrate chip trucks across Canada for a travel advertorial in Chatelaine Magazine. Super fun assignment!

You can see the online article here (with larger illustrations than the print version).

Our side-project Every Chip Stand is now in its 4th year and we’ve illustrated over 50 chip stands, mostly across Ontario (there are a LOT)! We’re always open to illustrate visually interesting-looking chip stands, so if you know of one we’ve not covered, please let us know. Recently we’ve set up an Etsy print shop to buy prints of our chip stand illustrations. And of course, don’t forget to follow us on Instagram @everychipstand to see all the illustrations (including the ones Joel did for this Chatelaine article).

Serious Smoke Food Truck – Saint-Jean, NB

Mr. Spudd’s Poutinerie, Regina SK

La Poutine, Edmonton AB

Ken’s Island Fries, Charlottetown PEI

Jeannie’s Fries, Chaffeys Lock ON

 

Shameless Buns – Vancouver, BC

 

Wistman’s Wood

Here is a travel illustration I did as a portfolio-piece about things found in Wistman’s Wood, a mystical section of forest in the Dartmoor National Park. There is a legend that a fanged dog roams the wood!