Sarah is hired to visually record stories. She travels the country to capture stories with pen and pad. Or, she is asked to illustrate stories for children and adults. Her talents in translating word to image don’t stop there. Here are projects that Sarah is hired to do:
I am continually creating. If I am awake I have a pen in hand. This is an editorial cartoon I am working on. The plan is to make it into the New Yorker one day. This little bug has a long way to go.
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A lowly magot takes on the big world:
“selfie”
“maggot porn”
“maggot’s got a long way to go”
“the hand off”
“where’s the meat counter”
“maggots in nyc”
“the empire state building”
We finished the story, illustrations and all. Now just waiting to hear if this piece of spaghetti will stick to the wall.
We went fishing in Durango. Well…Erik went fishing, I recorded our trip. Here is a study of the Awesome garden retreat that was the back yard of the house we rented. I wish I could have stayed a month.
Any spare time I have I graphically record the world around me. These are from a sketchbook I carry with me everywhere.
Learning Lula is a children’s book about a little girl who goes about the world discovering creativity. This is the year Learning Lula gets her pens. Or rather, the pens get her.
I love to experiment. I think I get that from my dad who on his days off would spend hours figuring out how to make everything in the house work better. Or when there was nothing to fix, he would sit down with graph paper and draw out schematics for some machine that would change how the world worked…if it ever made it to production that is. In any case, Dad had a lot of fun and that rubbed off on me.
Now I am no engineer, but I sure like to see what happens when I try something new. For instance, last weekend I got out the Yudu and challenged myself to print patterns on yards of fabric. I love to invent patterns and the Yudu offered me the opportunity to produce something tangible from which I can sew something fabulous.
I decided to start out small and print a design I could make into an easy pillow cover. Here it is all finished and sitting on my patio chair, making an otherwise boring piece of furniture cute. There’s Luna the Chicken in the background pecking away at the Dichondra. Below are pictures of the process. Follow this link to a full How To on Printing Patterns on the Yudu.
Now that the first set is done, I let it dry and shifted the fabric to the left to repeat the process.
I’m not much of a napkin holder gal, but my mom sure is. She uses them everyday. For Christmas I made her a set of these little nuggets to add to her repertoire.
