SOUTH OF FRANCE SKETCHBOOK

Gouache on paper

Pages from my travel sketchbook while teaching a visual journaling retreat in southern France.

THE CLASSROOM

Colored pencil, gouache, and crayon on scrap paper

A small story created in my sketchbook, based on a series of live-sketching sessions that took place in an early childhood classroom. Through this book, I explored how to capture fleeting movement—and emotion—with quick, stream-of-conscious shapes and linework. Later in my studio, I came back to the drawings to add wash and detail.

The final book was created with paper-over-cardboard covers and hand-sewn with wax thread and a button closure.

WE LIVED HAPPILY DURING THE WAR

Collage and mixed media

An illustrated version of Ilya Kaminsky’s beautiful poem “We Lived Happily During the War,” shared here with the author’s permission.

THE TELL

Collage and mixed media

An illustrated version of William Bronk’s poem, “The Tell”.

NADI LUNA

Acrylic paint, black inkpen paper collage

A small illustrated zine and poem about my daughter.