Last week...no, make that right before Thanksgiving (I'm losing all sense of time) I did a little spot illustration for Philadelphia Magazine for a piece on seasonal depression and the benefit of SAD lamps. Above is the final version I submitted, using the direction to keep it dark and wintry with only the lamp and face glowing. However, I also did the below color version before reaching the final. Coloring is something I enjoy, but as you know if you follow my work, I tend to keep my palettes small, muted, and flat. It was a good exercise to push myself a bit with the final piece, though I'm fairly pleased with how both turned out–just two different moods!



In other news, I've been holed up in my studio painting, drawing, and, yes, still preparing my applications for grad school. Hopefully I'll be posting what I've been working on soon! Like my illustrations, it's all very narrative, simple, and flat, but I've been exploring painting on wood and utilizing the grain as well as scale and composition. More later!

A belated happy thanksgiving and an early happy holidays.