Plankton, Picture Books, and Tiny Magic
August 06, 2014
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Noctiluca, Part One It was the middle of the night, a few days after my 23rd birthday, and I’d just been woken up by a tap on my shoulder. I was aboard a wooden tall ship, the schooner Adventuress on the Puget Sound, and it was my turn for the “anchor watch” shift. I grabbed my
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Writing Starts with Drawing
June 17, 2014
On the first leg of my flight to Kenya, I sat next to a 76-year-old psychotherapist-turned-art dealer. We started talking about our respective work, and I eventually pulled out an early copy of NEIGHBORHOOD SHARKS for him to look at. He quietly flipped through each of the pages, caref
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Sun Worship and Sacrifices
July 27, 2012
Lately as I work on the sketches for BURIED I’m struck by the sheer volume of sun-worship and sacrifice across cultures. Growing up going to Sunday school gave me a disconcerting familiarity to Judeo-Christian sacrifice—of course lambs and first born sons should be slaughtered o
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Horses, Battles, and a Couple of Moose
July 16, 2012
Yesterday I spent a few hours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, surrounded by kids and tourists as I drifted from room to air-conditioned room. My goal was to do studies from battle scenes, to draw horses, peasants, and armor as illustration reference for my Mesoamerican BURIED BENEA
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Mayan Sculpture at the Museum of Natural History
June 27, 2012
This Sunday found me at the Museum of Natural History in NYC drawing Mayan sculptures and pottery. After many days spent indoors working on my BURIED BENEATH US book I thought it would be fun and helpful to go get a look at some source material. At first glance the Central American wi
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Star Island Shark Tournament
June 18, 2012
Hello blog from our new New York apartment! I’m so sorry for my absence the last couple of weeks, but I’ve been desperately working away on the last touches on EXPEDITIONERS as I simultaneously unpack into our place and transition into the next book project. It turns out t
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Bird Attack!
May 23, 2012
The very first project I assigned my freshman 2D design class at the Art Institute of Boston was a “Bird Attack” in cut-out black paper against a white background, and I must say that they weren’t terribly thrilled with the idea. I could clearly see them thinking
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Diamond in the Roughs
May 11, 2012
The manuscript is in sections all over my studio, covered in notes and brightly colored page markers. A mug of lukewarm coffee is to my right, a silent inkjet printer is to my left, and directly in front of me is my computer, wacom tablet plugged in and ready. I’ve been sitting
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