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“Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear” 2024
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“King Cake” Just Desserts, 2022
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“Punksicles” 2023
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“Gourds Gone Wild” Posh Pumpkins, 2021
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“Angelfish” 2023
I have a deep and abiding love for good, strong line art.
In 2007, I began a regular art practice by drawing comics and other illustrations, developing my lineart traditionally, before moving into digital illustration in 2020.
Since leaving my corporate bookkeeping career in 2021, I’ve published four themed coloring books. My specialties are food, animals, anthropomorphized objects, and I seldom pass up the chance to illustrate a pun.
Among my influences, I’d cite the Sunday comics sections of the 80s and 90s and Nell Brinkley.
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“Ghost Pepper” 2023
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“Winter Monkey” Winter Whimsies, 2021
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“Deaden-11” 2023
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“Sammy’s Close-Up” Sammy the Snaggletooth Sidewinder Wants to be a Star, 2021
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Tarot cards (2021-2022) created to go with the tarot-themed cozy mystery novels I write.