Sprout

Fertilizer, please.

Help!

Always a new tangle.

This is a papercut with digital color.

Mask.. Maybe?

This is the Meadowlark in a series of lady/bird papercuts that I've been working on.

Run[ning]

Having grown up in California during 1) the environmentalist heydays of the 80s and 2) a five year long drought, I'm predisposed to be neurotic about water conservation. Really. I feel guilty when I let the water run as I do dishes.
So, again, I was trying to stray from obvious interpretations of "run" for Illustration Friday (one might also note that I abhor the act of running). This is a papercut, black paper and blue vellum.

"match"

The Illustration Friday topic for the week is "match," and this is, of course, my contribution. I was thinking of match as in:
match: noun 1 a : a person or thing equal or similar to another b : one able to cope with another c : an exact counterpart
2 : a pair suitably associated
3 a : a contest between two or more parties

trying, of course, to avoid the obvious match-from-a-matchbook kind of match.

These are papercuts, ball of fire vs. drop of water. Who would win?

dirty vegetables

I'm putting the finishing touches on an abecedary of the sad demise of a motley collection of adorable food. Sounds weird, right? We'll just say that Edward Gorey made me do it.. specifically, "The Gashleycrumb Tinies." The whole alphabet is composed of papercuts, with watercolored backgrounds, mounted on pages torn from old cookbooks.
Zucchini (in photo) is the last to be finished. He's been sliced to pieces, of course, but for some reason I've hesitated on the final touches. I get lazy at the tail end of big projects.
My friends at pin.monkey.press are publishing the book in October (provided, of course, I hurry up and finish it). And, there are more sneak previews at my etsy shop.

Oh, Jackson

Surely every Jackson Pollock painting (and movie) has been countered by innumerable mutterings of "oh.. I could do that." Yeah, yeah.. but do you?
You can here.

walking the plank

it's time for a return to semi-regular appearances on illustration friday. this week's theme is "play," and i just happened to be putting the finishing touches on this piece. aarrrrrgh matey, indeed.
click image for larger view.