About

I started drawing on receipts behind the counter at my parents' hardware store in Beaverton.

That was 1998. The receipts got bigger, and eventually the drawings did too. I went to PNCA for a BFA in illustration, graduated in 2013, and spent two years freelancing from a studio apartment on SE Hawthorne that doubled as a print shop, storage unit, and sometimes kitchen.

My first real break came when The Oregonian hired me for a series of portraits to accompany their wildfire coverage in 2015. That led to work with Wired, Outside Magazine, and a handful of indie publishers in the Pacific Northwest.

These days I split my time between editorial assignments and longer book projects. Most of my work starts analog, with Speedball nibs and Higgins ink on Strathmore 400-series paper, then moves to Photoshop for cleanup and color. Some jobs stay fully traditional. I like those best.

I work out of a shared studio space on N Mississippi Ave with two printmakers and a ceramicist who makes a lot of noise. It's good. The coffee shop next door knows my order.