New Site Design

If you've been here before you'll notice that the site has been redesigned and updated with new work and with some new categories. The menu bar on the left is also active here in blogger so you can get from here to any page on my site. Alec Longstreth did a great job of getting the site up and working smooth. Alec's link is also on the left, his comics and illustrations are terrific.
Here is a piece from a series I did for Cricket Magazine a couple months back and appears in the next issue (March 2008). The story is called "The Mummy Tent". If you click on Children's you can see the entire series. I hope you like browsing around!

Lives on the Ground

New work for The Nation (issue 2/18/08) .
This illustration was done for an article by Adina Hoffman titled "Lives on the Ground", a review of Israeli and Palestinian memoirs. Hoffman has chosen to discuss "The stories of individual people who live and breathe the sweeping political choices made by prime ministers and presidents" in order to provide a human dimension to the abstract political debates over Holy Land politics. I tried to echo this sentiment in the illustration by contrasting the scarred, abstract map with a scene suggesting diverse everyday street life.
I wanted to make different styles work together in this piece. For the map I painted watercolor and acrylic layers, working back and forth with collaged type. The magnifying glass is also handled in a more graphic way to set up a contrast to the warmer, more atmospheric street scene.
Editors: John Palattella and Christine Smallwood