The Sketch Book

kate spade fall 2015

 Today I had the pleasure of escaping the studio to see the Kate Spade Fall 2015 Preview. Kate Spade knows the importance of beautiful clothing and accessories they design, but equally significan...

February 2015: The Tea Cup Smuggler

4:30 am. Every morning Elspeth walks the fifteen frigid blocks from her apartment to the Flower District to scout the best selection of flowers before sunrise. She loses herself amongst the cut ...

January 2015: Meet Suzanne, Simoné, and Cissy

Three friends, out and about in winter finery. As in any group of three, there’s distinct roles in play here. Suzanne, chronic ear-muff-wearer is the first to let you know she’s always been the sm...

2015: MAKE LEMONADE

As evening descends on Nolita on this final night of 2014, I sit on my sofa and sip a lemony mescal cocktail. Oh sweet sofa. What a year we’ve had. Where to begin? Usually on new years eve I fe...

merry merry! fariss family christmas card by winifred paper

  A few glimpses of the beautiful Christmas Card that Winifred Paper and I created in collaboration for Anderson's and my first Married Christmas Card! Look at the custom letterpress job on b...

The Queen of Spring Street

Meet Tay. She's a four part composition painted in sumi and watercolor, floated on white mat to expose deckled edged paper, framed in burnished gold shadowbox frames and hung for all to see at ou...

december 2014

Happy December! This is an illustration inspired by the one and only Olivia Palermo, by the way that snow falling makes Central Park feel intimate and hushed like a secret tucked in the middle o...

RAwwrrrrrr

  Attention babies! This is your time. Your first Christmas. Or maybe your second, either way, you are the star of the show and you're about to get A LOT of presents. Might I suggest one...

73SPRINGSHOP - The Greatest Shopping Experience You Will Ever Have

I am back to round out the rest of your December schedule with more events focused on ME. I assume you've already planned your outfit for my Dempsey & Carroll 2015 Calendar event on December ...

Dempsey & Carroll 2015 Calendar Event

Hello! Exciting news! As you can see from this invitation I designed for the event, I'm here to invite you to join me at the Dempsey & Carroll Lexington Avenue showroom on December 2nd to to...