For Pegasus Playhouse’s pandemic video version of Uh…Christmas, Carole, I created and hand-painted these and more pieces for the set.
Are you looking for someone to paint signs for your wedding? Maybe you’d like your house number to really pop? Contact me with your ideas.
I created all of these as gifts. If you’re looking for a customized anniversary or holiday gift, or you’d like to order a set of hand-drawn ornaments, send me a note!
“I want to work mountaineering courses,” I told my husband. He smiled.
I had just summited Eldorado Peak, heavy with spring snow, in Washington’s North Cascades. I had even led the climb, heart hammering, pounding in snow pickets along the mountain’s surprisingly airy ridge to protect the climbers following me. Dark, ancient mountain faces dropped to gently curving shoulders of ice behind me.
Brain, Child magazine published “Mountains to Climb” but no longer maintains their archive. Please don’t hesitate to contact me for a PDF of the rest of this essay or if you’re looking for a writer for a project.
For the biography Stark: The Life and Wars of John Stark, French and Indian War Ranger, Revolutionary War General, by Richard & John Polhemus, I created a series of hand-drawn maps to highlight geography relevant to the text. I finished up the pen & ink illustrations by adding text in Illustrator.
Are you looking for someone to hand-draw some maps for you for a project or an event? I’d love to; send me a message.
The Climbs Committee for Eugene’s local outdoor adventuring group, the Obsidians, asked me to design some stickers they could give to climbers who summited peaks while on Obsidians climbs. Here is the result, a series of ten stickers of Oregon peaks.
I enjoyed the applied aspect of this work, drawing as well as graphic design, eventually creating something useful. Do you have a logo you’ve been mulling over or a T-shirt you want designed? Let’s talk.
Editors Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney asked me to read lots of books to find landscape quotes for the visually stunning and poetry-packed Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. I was only too happy to oblige.
Appalachian Trail
Continuously marked walking path from Maine to Georgia. Eighty-eight miles (142 km) of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail meander through southeastern New York State on the footpath’s 2,167 mi (3,487 km) journey from Mt Katahdin, Maine, to Springer Mountain, Georgia. Regional planner Benton MacKaye of Massachusetts first proposed the trail in a 1921 journal article.
The writer Barry Lopez enlisted my help in fact-checking this far-reaching and autobiographical book, a memoir of a life spent exploring wild places and inquiring about our relationships with them.
