Hey there, and welcome. You'll see below that I enjoy making bold and colorful art, drawing critters, and if I can make word art, I will. I'm looking for more work in these worlds: illustrating food, developing murals, drawing book covers, designing stickers and greeting cards and small prints. Take a look around and enjoy :)
Art and Illustration
private commission
a card from my Deck of Many Things
Puzzle design for Rook Room
Puzzle design for Rook Room Publishing
Dog parade!
Book Covers
commission, 2023
commissioned for Button Poetry, 2017
Food Drawings
for an article on using more salt (what a concept!)
private commission
personal
Greeting Cards
Stickers
The Skeleton Tarot
In 2017 I illustrated and published a full 78-card tarot deck. The Skeleton Tarot contains a mix of original and classic imagery. We've gone through a number of reprints, have sold thousands of decks, and are carried in shops around the world. Here are a few of my favorite cards in the deck.
Hand Lettering
Murals
Valley Junction Fern, 75'x18', 2024
Historic Valley Junction Foundation and Olsen-Larsen Gallery hired Dani Awesome and me to create the neighborhood's inaugural mural. Our design is a big, colorful love letter to the unstoppable force of nature. It invites people walking Fifth Street to look up and discover something incredible.
Pride Corner, Des Moines, Iowa, approximately 4500 square feet, 2024-2025
Dani Awesome and I were hired to design and execute a mural that brought life to four corners at the center of Des Moines' Pide festivities. Initially installed as a 12-month license, the mural will be reworked in 2025 and given extended life for several more years. This is the first mural of its kind in the city of Des Moines and is the result of cooperation between Capital City Pride, the East Village Neighborhood, and the City of Des Moines.
We were specifically tasked with using the progress flag as a starting point. We updated the colors of the flag to bring a neon vibrancy to the area. In 2025 we will add the City of Des Moines progress flag to one corner.
Des Moines Area Regional Transit, Bus Shelters, 2024
DART invited me to submit a proposal for a neighborhood bus shelter. I used the style of creatures I've put in murals before - such as The People You Meet on the Trail - and illustrated a variety of my neighbors. Some are grocery shopping, with bags from the local shops. Others are waiting for the bus with kids, or have brought along their pets for a visit to the neighborhood vet clinic. Each character has a relationship to the block -- and each one also represents an animal native to the area. The screens would be a fun, inviting design intended to provide company to people waiting to catch the bus.
The People You Meet on the Trail, West Des Moines, Iowa, 2022
I have painted three murals for West Des Moines's Art on the Trail. This one is my favorite. I used the 2022 theme, "People You Meet on the Trail", to explore the animal people found on the trail. This mural includes blue jays, fish, snakes, deer, turtles, frogs, foxes, and more. This was particularly fun for me as I painted the mural, situated as it was on a stream, so I did have kingfishers, ducks, fish, frogs, ospreys, and more to keep me company.
Grand Consulting Monster, 13'x45', 2021
The client was pretty open. They had a large blank wall with difficult access and wanted a monster that made their entrance seem "foreboding". I used rhythm and repetition to create a high-contrast creature that draws attention to their building from the busy interstate next door.