Steak Salad

Another "BrokeAss Gourmet" piece, this time printed in glorious FULL COLOR!

Ten Paces and Celine's Gift

I am super excited to have a piece this week on Ten Paces and Draw, an excellent collaborative illustration blog. Each week collaborators make a sketch based on a theme, then the sketches are switched up and everyone ends up taking someone else's piece to completion. I created the piece below based on a sketch by the amazingly talented Alyssa Nassner, who co-created Ten Paces with the also amazing Rachel Dougherty. Please visit the blog to see Alyssa's original sketch!

I had so much fun with this piece! I'd been feeling like my recent work was getting a little too muted so I forced myself to use opera pink on full blast and I'm happy with the result!

Also, make sure to check out my superstar school chum Nick Iluzada's interpretation of my zoo animal getaway car sketch, below. It's so weird seeing someone else make work based on my ideas, but it's fun! I love how he added "peace sign out suckus" and has the lion flippin' the bird!

PS: I had a birthday back in June and the supremely skilled Celine Loup made an awesome painting of me for the occasion. I am seriously honored to have been rendered by her masterful hands (and seriously sorry for not sharing this with you guys sooner)!

I look so classy! I'd really love to wear a dress like that. Big thanks to Celine!!!

Cilantro Margarita

Another Brokeass Gourmet illustration for City Paper! This time a cilantro-honey margarita.

For more Brokeass recipes, check out Brokeass Gourmet!

Potted Plants

A little painting I did on a card for my dad, whose birthday was yesterday (in addition to westerns, he's really into gardening). I scanned this before adding "Happy Birthday" because I was afraid that the lettering would be rushed and not my best. It turned out okay but I still prefer it this way.

Coconut Ice Cream Noms

I did another illustration for the Broke Ass Gourmet column in City Paper! Pick up a copy around Baltimore THIS WEEK! For more of Gabi Moskowitz's Broke Ass recipes go here.

Broke Ass Gourmet

I'm on page 22 of this week's City Paper! I was asked to do a recipe illustration for a cheap but tasty prosciutto, peach, and mozzarella salad.

This colored spot appears on the website:

And here's a close up of the ingredients:

Big thanks to Joe at City Paper! If you're in Baltimore and want to see the recipe in print be sure to pick up a copy of City Paper before Wednesday!

Yippee-Ki-Yay...

...Happy Father's Day! I made this card for my dad (he's really into Westerns).

Guess What?

I'm a college graduate!

Yay!

The studio I shared with Julianna this year is all packed up and no more (goodbye, Strutting Leo!)....

...and I'm ready for my future!

I've been so busy this semester and still have so much to show you! For starters, here are two projects from my Maps class:

A map of Harajuku surrounded by examples of popular street fashions....

...And one of Cuba with a close-up of Havana!

I still have some information I would like to add to these but I'm pretty happy with them so far!

Big thanks to everyone who came to my commencement show (especially those of you who came far out of your way!) and to all my well-wishers! I really appreciate your support!

Commencement Show!!!

My commencement show is up!

Come See it today, tomorrow, or Monday, 11:00AM-11:00PM on the third floor of the Fox Building (take a left off of the elevator, then a right and look at the wall across from you. I'm right there!)

The address is:

1301 Mount Royal Avenue

Baltimore, Maryland

21217

A lot of the work in the show hasn't been put up on the blog yet, so it will be new to you!

You can also pick up some of my business cards and postcards...

...Look through my portfolio book and the mock-up for "How I Broke My Ankle"....

...And thumb through one of my most recent sketchbooks!

ALSO, my portfolio site is up! It's actually been online for a while but I was waiting until everything was neat and tidy to start advertising it. I still have some things I'd like to mess around with but I think it looks pretty good for now!

www.jannamorton.com!

Maps Sketchbook Stuff

Ugh! Only two day left of my college career!!! Everything's coming together at a crazy rate! Here are a couple of little sketchbook things for my Maps class.

This one's a scale for an imaginary map that would either be of New Orleans or a fancy English garden or something.

And this is a flow chart type thing showing the four degrees that connect me to my teenage crush, Elijah Wood. I was very excited when I was about fourteen and first figured this out!