Weeds

Here's a recent cover I worked on with Allison Saltzman from Ecco/Harper Collins.  

When I received the initial call for this project I happened to be standing in my parents garden which happened to have a fair amount of weeds (sorry Dad, I know its not your fault...just a weedy season!) anways, I was immediately inspired and was happy to have such a magnificent array of reference material at my fingertips.  Thanks to Allison for being such a great art director, and to my Dad for having a fantastically weedy section of his garden.  

Daily Drop Cap

Awhile back the fantastically talented Jessica Hische invited us to be part of her Special Guest Alphabet for Daily Drop Cap.  She gave us the letter J (for Juniper) and we went to work. Here is the end result.  Thanks to Jess for inviting us to be part of her very cool project. Click here to see more.

Happy Holidays!

Over the past few weeks we had the pleasure of working with Lisa Schreiber of the Washington Post. Here is the cover art for the Holiday Happenings insert.

You can see additional images on Matt's Drawger blog.

Fun in the Kitchen

Awhile back I worked on a project with Cookie Magazine and Jenny Rosenstrach to create hand painted kitchen recipe doors.  The process involved Jenny sending me a few of her favorite recipes as well as her kitchen cabinet door.  The first step was priming the back of the door with a few coats of paint.  Once this was complete I did a general layout sketch to make everything would fit a.ok. The next step was to hand lettering the recipes. So fun! I tried to keep the look somewhat loose in order to keep the feel of recipe cards.  I also scattered little drawings here and there to jazz things up a bit.  You can read more at http://www.dinneralovestory.com/2010/02/03/the-recipe-door/