On Tuesday, my Granny passed away. Not being able to travel down to Maryland to be there for her funeral has been tough to process but I've been processing a lot through art. This illustration I based off an old picture of hers. I don't know how long she'd actually had it, but I remember for years this picture, done in embroidery hanging on the walls of my grandparent's house. The picture was handed down to me several months back after my Granny had to significantly downsize to move into an assisted living facility and I like to think that she must have found some measure of comfort from the scene to have kept it for as long as she did. ​"One short sleep past, we wake eternally" and I like to think when she did it was somewhere like this. 

After college I spent two years living abroad in Thailand. I continued working on the same pen & ink techniques I focused on through college but also started practicing a lot more with pencil (especially with pencil shading). And, although I continued doing quite a few stand-alone compositions as I was accustomed to from the project/assignment based nature of college, I also started focusing a little more on multi-piece series and concepts.