When I’m not drawing, you can find me outside! So much of what I do is influences by the local flora and fauna.
These Atlantic sand fiddler crabs have found themselves some real fiddles!
I had a lot of fun with this illustration. I see more crabs coming in the future.
These crabs are watercolor and pencil and can be found as a print, card, and sticker in my shop.
A group of swallow is called a flight.
I absolutely love collective nouns, so I’m working on a series of illustrations of bird collective nouns.
These swallows are the first, and there will be a calendar full of them for 2024.
Check out some of the detail below, and a look at when I first began this piece.
I was delighted to see a fox and her kits explore our backyard!
We’ve always had a healthy (or more than healthy) population of foxes. But it’s still always special to see the kits out and about.
I tried to capture some of their antics in my nature journal.
I love watching the swallows in summer! We have tree swallows and barn swallows who visit the fields near our house. And I love seeing purple martins in their boxes too.
This garland also includes a cliff swallow and a violet green swallow.
It’s available in my shop, as well as cards and stickers.
These swallows were drawn in pencil, and painted in watercolor and gouache.
The following shots were taken in various states of progress. It’s a little peek into my process.
I love birding during spring migration! I encountered a large group of pine warblers enjoying box elder catkins. They are one of the cutest warblers, in my opinion. They look like they’re wearing little brown hats.
There were also tons of spring ephemerals, including an impressive showing of trout lilies.
See this page a little closer:
In January of 2022 I saw a barred owl for the first time ar Tyler Arboretum. Shortly after that, I realized that we had a barred owl family right in our neighborhood.
There ended up being three fledglings the first year, and we named the oldest Barry.
These photos of our owl family were taken by Zack Gillespie.
Our neighbor red tailed hawks have been very bold recently. Sitting low in trees and checking out Zack and I as we take our morning walks.
The larger female is recognizable by her white “eyebrows”
There’s a lot of love for hive dwelling bees like honey bees and bumble bees, but 90% of Pennsylvania’s bees are solitary bees! I wanted to show my appreciation with these illustrations.
These bees are watercolor, gouache, and pencil. I’ve also made them into a solitary bee garland printed on recycled linen paper, and vinyl stickers.
The bees pictured are the eastern carpenter bee, bi-colored sweat bee, pruinose squash bee, flat-tailed leaf cutter bee, and blue orchard mason bee.
These foxes were originally watercolor and pencil studies from my sketchbook.
I loved them so much, that they’re now available as a print, banner and sticker on Etsy.
Strawberry Moon, mixed media on wood panel, 8×8″, 2021.
This piece was inspired by catbirds that nested outside my parents window. The first full moon in June is called a strawberry moon.
This was started in the beginning of quarantine in March 2020.
You can find archival prints in my shop
