I just completed some illustrations for The Rumpus, for an essay which hasn’t been posted yet.
The essay was written in stream of consciousness format, and jumps from one thought to another. I decided to do an illustration based on the following passage:
Summers, we’d go to our family’s cottage, an old green-painted cabin built on an eroding sandhill above Lake Erie. The hill had been blown out from under parts of
the house, including the bedroom I slept in. We called the room “Precipice.”
Here’s the Before shot:
And here’s what it looked like after I “mooned” it. No wonder I have a reputation for brilliance… : )
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Have you ever lived in a summer cottage that’s seen better days?
Ever been up high enough to see a real live mountain goat?
Have you ever slept in a bed hanging out a window??
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