Baba Yaga's House

Baba Yaga stories have long been a source of intrigue to me. A big part of this, is because of Baba Yaga's house. A house, deep in the woods, standing on chicken legs!

I also love that Baba Yaga herself sometimes helps the people who come to her, and sometimes tries to hurt them. You never quite know how the story will go ...

For this illustration, I wanted to include lots of spooky details and imagery. Above is a close up of the black cat. I took this photo while the illustration was at an in-between stage when I hadn't pasted the bits down.

And here's the piece in the lovely adirondack frame I picked up! I thought this style fit just right for the mood of the art.

2012 Interval House Impact Report

I updated the Interval House Impact Report illustration from last year to fit the new stats.  I worked on this with John Lepp of Agents of Good.  It's always such a pleasure to create work for a truly an amazing organization.

Interval House Gratitude Report 2012

I love the 2012 Interval House gratitude report!  It was created and designed by the wonderful people at Agents of Good.  Throughout the report, my dollhouse illustration can be found in the photos.

I created this dollhouse illustration for the 2009 gratitude report.  The people at Interval House liked the illustration so much that they bought the framed original.  I'm so glad it continues to be a loved and useful piece of artwork for this Toronto battered woman's shelter.

Interval House Impact Report

Back in December, I worked with the amazing people at Agents of Good (John Lepp and Jen Love) to illustrate an infograph for Interval House woman's shelter.  John and Jen are so wonderful to work with and I think it's their caring, positive energy that make the work produced really great!  I have to say I'm very happy with how this impact report came out.  I love that it's a nice blend of storytelling and numbered facts.

Be sure to click the image to see it larger.

Waitrose Weekend

A month or so ago, I was asked to make a cross section dollhouse style illustration for Waitrose Weekend.  The article was about helpful hints for elderly people who are downsizing their homes.  Moving is such a difficult thing for most people.  I know I hate moving.  It just seems a little overwhelming.  But we all gotta do it now and then, and it feels good to go through stuff and get rid of what you don't need.

Thanks very much Steven Trayler for the great commission!

Seven Days: Vermont Magazine

Here's a new cover illustration I made for Seven Days, Vermont's independent magazine!  It was for the real estate issue, so I got to cut out a nice variety of little houses.  I think it turned out pretty cute.

It was art directed by Diane Sullivan, who was an all around wonderful person to work with.  The turn around time was really tight (maybe 4 days from sketches to final), fewf!

You Can Go Home Again

Here's one more illustration commission I got back in December, this one was for D Home Magazine (the D stands for Dallas!). The article was about visiting your childhood home as an adult, written by Peggy Levinson and art directed by Jamie Laubhan-Oliver.

Visiting my old homes is something I've never done myself, but I often think about doing. The online article can be read here.

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays Everyone! Above is an illustration I made of a Toronto Christmas holiday scene. I love the big old converted houses with multiple residences. And the little cafes and great window displays!

I'm in my home town of Nelson BC for my holiday. And I'm loving the mountains! Downhill and cross country skiing is the best!

Alexis & Sam Music Productions

Alexis & Sam business cards

Alexis & Sam splash page

Fewf! Well this was a big, fun project!

My wonderful and talented friends, Alexis Marsh and Sam Jones, asked me to do a music and film themed dollhouse for her new music production company. The company is based in LA so she wanted an LA themed house. It was fun to do a little image research of California flora and birds (I've included an American Goldfinch, Barn Swallow and Downy Woodpecker). And I managed to cram in 11 musical instruments into the house!

Earth Day

I thought this illustration of Miss Fawn Cuttington's Rustic A-Frame was fitting on a day devoted to nature. I had fun doing the garden with the lettus, carrots, corn and spinach.

There's prints of it for sale here.


And here's a picture of my own little tomato grow opp. There's two types of cherry tomatoes! And I'm very excited about them. The long stemmed plant in the front is an avocado, but it can't seem to keep it's leaves.

Happy Earth Day!

Interval House Gratitude Report

In December I was contacted by John Lepp of Agents of Good to do an illustration for Interval House, a battered woman's shelter in Toronto. John wanted to give the feeling of a warm home and a safe place for woman and their children. He asked me to create a dollhouse illustration, loosely based on photos and floor plans of the home.

The full image is featured on the cover, and crops of the rooms are reused inside the report. In addition, I created a cut out alphabet that is used to highlight text in the report. As well as two pie graphs.

John did an amazing job on the design and text in the report and it was a real pleasure working with him!


John has also blogged about it here