This illustration was created for Taproot Magazine in 2016 as a coloring page. After publication, I used gouache and ink to "color" my own version. It was really great to see how different readers of the magazine colored their copies.

I like to find linens at thrift shops with beautiful embroidery and give them new life by screenprinting my art onto them. This work is definitely a learning curve. When I first started printing on textiles, I didn't pay much attention to the era in which the linen was made. I've learned that sometimes less is more. A simple screenprint can speak more than a complex one, and the relationship between screenprint and embroidery is really important. I want my work to enhance, not take away from, the existing craftsmanship.

This is one illustration of many from my 2016 dollhouse crankie. The woman is painted with gouache and is sitting in a 3D dollhouse room with reupholstered furniture and hand-painted walls.

This is an illustration from my children's book, The ABCs of Homesteading. I created screenprints of each page and then hand-painted into them on birchwood panels. I love representing motherhood in an empowering, nostalgic way.