This article was about starting the day with healthy food. For an earlier version, I found an image of a 1940s cereal that was strands of grain. The editor wondered why the cereal “looked like spaghetti.” I was having trouble finding the right image in my old magazines… and then had the brainstorm to simply pour fresh dry cereal onto...

This was my first project for The Talented Mister Sainsbury when he was at Pantheon Books. We did many many versions for this book about a WWII war bride/pinup model turned enterprising photographer. Finding an appropriate photo of a gal from the correct time period, both sensual and smiling, proved challenging. This version was my personal favorite....

Orlie Kraus at the Wall Street Journal commissioned this piece for a section cover of the Wall Street Journal. The article is about revisiting the homes we lived in as children, yet how different our memories and current reality can be. The final version used on the cover was the editors’ concept: a hand holds up an old b+w photo with a deckle...

This was my original concept for the WSJ “Finding Home” article. I had a gorgeous tricycle image I’ve always wanted to use. I covered it in vines as a metaphor for childhood past, a house wren perched on the seat. The vines were from my own garden, laid right on the scanner glass and archived. The house is ghosting away, as do memories....

I designed and illustrated this CD package for a music mix by my talented husband, Mister Be.

Imagine my elation when given a book jacket assignment for one of my favorite authors, working with my all-time favorite art director, the marvelous Carol Carson at Alfred A Knopf. The watery background was created from my own photos of the whirlpool water in the Niagara Gorge below the Falls, with that distinctive greenish tinge. I massaged the water...

Smog Design contacted me to illustrate a wine label for wine importers The Grateful Palate. After submitting a sketch for the Grenache label, the client remarked: “This looks great. Can you just make it a little weirder?” A client after my own heart!

The client, The Grateful Palate was so pleased with the appearance of Mister GG Grenache they commissioned another label right away. After much two versions with cowboys packing their 44s and looking too macho for a Riesling, the client proposed using Katharine Ross’s character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as a point of inspiration. Bingo.