The Sketch Book

princess predictions

Happy Royal Wedding Eve everyone! Are you waking up tomorrow for the big show? The mature, busy, adult me knows that its crazy to wake up in the middle of the night for this, but the little girl ...

carefree

Hooray, the weekend is upon us! And its Easter too! I guess this particular sketch has nothing to do with Easter but I needed something summery and carefree on this gloomy afternoon. Ok ok April,...

Christina

Happy Birthday to Christina! (a day late... the stationery show is ruining my blogging schedule!) X, as her fondest admirers call her, is a whole lot of fierce packed into a cute little package....

this and that

Happy Friday! Last night I got a little carried away painting patterns just for fun... what do you think? this greek key thing was TRICKY. it was the closest i've come to doing math in about 8...

Atlantic Pacific 123

Hello! Happy Thursday. It is an amazingly beautiful spring day in DC. Made all the more beautiful by the fact that yesterday was disgustingly ugly. DC weather is a cruel mistress. Which brings m...

noteworthy?

these are two possible designs I'm working on for new cards! i want to have lots of fresh new cards ready for the national stationery show, what do you think? I love love love peacock feathe...

julia&maggie

Happy birthday to Julia! and to Maggie! happy (belated) birthday that is. i appear to be slipping up on my birthday illustration punctuality. these are two of my favorite marathon running gi...

bag lady chic

I've had an Olsen twin girl crush since high school. Something about matching tiny people in couture is positively fascinating to me. How do they drink that much starbucks??? And don't those gian...

escapades

So I consider myself to be pretty good at not getting influenced by trends too quickly. But all that goes out the window when I see someone with a new exciting shade of nail polish on. I have no ...

jet set

ok i had an elaborate scheme in the works for today... i was going to post an illustration of a man and announce my new plan to become a mens' fashion illustrator as an april fools joke. but ala...