About

After 10 years of work­ing for Cor­po­rate Amer­ica, I quit my job and went to art school in Sep­tem­ber of 2005. My first BA Degree in Business/HR Man­age­ment was earned right after high school. Although I have always taken school seri­ously, I was extremely pas­sion­ate about school the sec­ond time around. Return­ing to school for an art degree was a risk, but I knew that I had to take it.

In May of 2008, I earned my BA in Graphic Design with a minor in Fine Art. Dur­ing my final semes­ter, I earned sev­eral awards for both design & illus­tra­tion, which landed me an intern­ship with the incred­i­ble Cooper Smith & Com­pany. My intern­ship came to an end in August 2008, when I decided to go into busi­ness for myself. Sweet Har­vey LLC opened in Sep­tem­ber 2008.

Always more inter­ested in cre­at­ing imagery, my time is now focused pri­mar­ily on illus­tra­tion & print­mak­ing. My artis­tic style is mod­ern, graphic and slightly whim­si­cal. All of my illus­tra­tion work is hand-drawn via Adobe Illus­tra­tor. Depend­ing on client needs, I can also work tra­di­tion­ally via hand sketch­ing or painting.

THE PRINT SHOP

My jour­ney into print­mak­ing stemmed from a need to bring my dig­i­tal illus­tra­tion into a tan­gi­ble medium. Let­ter­press & screen-printing are a per­fect fit for my sim­ple, graphic draw­ing style. My print shop opened in Sep­tem­ber of 2009. This is the place where mod­ern illus­tra­tion comes to life in print!

The paper goods line that I offer is printed on our antique Van­der­cook SP15 print­ing press. This is a gor­geous piece of machin­ery, weigh­ing in at 705LB’s. Need­less to say, she takes up most of the print shop. This press prints up to 13″ x 19″ poster size prints. My line of fab­ric goods is a mix of screen-printed work and sewing. Each piece is indi­vid­u­ally printed and then incor­po­rated into a piece of work with other fabrics.

All of my printed work is avail­able through my online ETSY shop.