Close to Home: A Visual Essay
2023
52 pages, 5.5” x 8.5”
Self-published
An excerpt was published in the 4th Issue of Rustica Journal.
This slow, meandering visual narrative was inspired by a trip through Western Massachusetts to Upstate New York with my partner. Each page was painted with gouache in a sketchbook, and hand-lettered with pen and ink.
The book can be purchased on Etsy or Radiator Comics.
Read the first 14 pages below, and check out some process photos from my sketchbook.
Take a look at some of the original sketchbook pages and spreads from the printed book below.
I painted this scene at the campsite en plein air.
Spread from the book in print
Back cover of the book in print
