Lettering & Paper Projects
It’s not just words…I love the letters themselves too! I’ve been exploring hand-lettering in various forms for more than 10 years, including through calligraphy and sign painting. These are some of my favorite projects from recent years.
October, October, October
A hand-lettered and hand-carved linocut tribute to the best month of the year.
Nothing feels more autumnal than blackletter to me, so that was the starting point for this print. I sent it out unsolicited to friends and family, partly as a declaration of my personal seasonal allegiance and partly because it’s just nice to get fancy mail!
I documented part of the process on instagram, if you like watching ink being rolled.
Wedding Signs: Dominique & Keith
It’s such an honor to be asked to contribute to a loved one’s wedding, and especially this one. I’ve known Dominique quite literally my entire life, and to be asked to design and hand-make signage for her wedding meant the world to me.
I had sent out a New Year’s card the year before that incorporated metallic fireworks; Doma wanted to use a similar motif for the wedding signage since they were getting married near the Fourth of July.
Dominique put together a very detailed slideshow to indicate where each sign would go, the dimensions of the item(s) they’d be placed on, and other key details which was hugely helpful since we were in different states!
We worked on an initial design in-person (and selected which metallic colors looked best, which, frankly, was a lot of fun), and then I sent drafts and refinements for her to review. She sourced vintage frames and I sourced paper and ink.
Then it was just the small matter of working on the highest-stakes project of my life to date…no big deal! But it all came together and the signs became part of the backdrop to her lovely wedding.
Materials: Metallic watercolors, higgins ink; acrylic paint pens
New Year’s Cards
I would love to be the kind of person who gets things together to send holiday cards out the first week of December, but after several years of trying I realized I was more of a New Year’s card-sender (which means that sometimes the cards don’t make it out until the end of January, but they year is still new enough that it counts!)
Materials:
2024: Metallic finetech watercolors, higgins ink; 2025: higgins ink; 2026; tempera paint
Booklet: How to Make a Good First Impression
(according to Forbes.com)
I made this book right before I graduated from college. I was desperately seeking advice from any and all sources, including the internet, and including Forbes.com. Their advice for acing a job interview was “be interesting” – which is pretty unhelpful.
It turns out the internet is full of unhelpful advice.