Association Montessori Internationale approached me with a fun challenge; transform the existing AMI logo into the three growth stages, and represent the fundamentals of Maria Montessori’s approach to nurturing a child’s mind. It is a collaboration between a prepared adult, a prepared space, and the child.
“The hand is the instrument of the mind.” – Dr. Maria Montessori
These marks are intro graphics for Association Montessori Internationale educational training videos.
As a volunteer at Festival Beach Food Forest, I discovered the resilience of nature and became aware of abundance around me, in plants I had…
This compilation includes motion graphics and visual effects samples by Leah Lovise, created for Bazaarvoice, Chiral Balance, Elephant Productions, Fosforo Films, Moon City Media, Polly Mermaid, Quixote Entertainment, and University of Texas TEx Total Educational Experience. Enjoy!
Senior animator with Minnow Mountain‘s rotoscope team for the sci-if series, Undone. After 28-year-old Alma nearly dies in a car accident, she finds that she…
Precious works of artwork are often found in the kitchen! The intricate stories, simple drawings, and daily achievements of our kids are traditionally found displayed…
Logo design for Pixel Spring, a lean development company. The company later changed names and this mark was never used. Creating a balance design, incorporating…
Books 3 & 4 of the comic book series COURI VINE are complete! This completes the first story arch of the Couri Vine series. We…
The third book of the COURI VINE series, called Hostages, is complete. Find out more about how you can help us print this book and…
Our KickStarter goal was met! Books 3 & 4 of COURI VINE have had a first print run! Many THANKS to the 111 wonderful people who backed our project!
In 2017, I had the honor of designing the invitation for the Children’s Tumor Foundation New York Gala to raise funding for NF awareness.
Art print for The Invincible Czars’ tour of the silent film with live original score.
Oil Pastel for local Austin art show, BYOBeard.
Poster design for Riddley Walker, adapted for Trouble Puppet Theater Company by Artistic Director Connor Hopkins, from the award-winning cult-classic novel by Russell Hoban.
Art print for The Invincible Czars’ tour of the silent film with live original score.
It’s impossible to leave the swirling wasteland of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch especially if you’re a mutant mermaid who has created a palace of…
In 2005, I moved to Austin, Texas to work as a rotoscope animator for the film A Scanner Darkly. In 2020, another Richard Linklater film…
This is an editorial illustration drawn for the article Beyond Black-Eyed Peas for the Austin Chronicle.
Collapsus is an interactive cross-media game that combines live action, rotoscope animation, interactive fiction, and documentary film. The story is set in the near future, portraying the affects that the world energy crisis has on international politics and the growing population.
Collapsus is produced and directed by Tommy Pallotta and received an Emmy nomination for Best Digital Fiction, a People’s Choice Award and Interactive Award nominations at SXSW 2011, the Dutch Spin Award, and a World Summit Award.
Raising bantam chickens in central Austin, Texas has altered my perceptions of cultivating one’s own food. Caring for these birds, collecting their eggs, and simply…
These designs where created for the signage at the Festival Beach Food Forest a grassroots pilot project neighboring the Festival Beach Community Garden and RBJ…
Oil on canvas, part of a solo art show in November 2017 at Vintage Heart Coffee in Austin, Texas.
Heritage Tree Ordinance Takes Root Tree lovers stand their ground – and win Keller Keeps Her Robes, for Now Special judge says Keller’s conduct in…
Art print for The Invincible Czars’ tour of the silent film with live original score.
Using the existing art from the Moxie & Sparx Explain NF1 comic book, I created a motion comic for Children’s Tumor Foundation to explain neurofibromatosis…
Greetings from Austin, TX postcard series.
Oil on canvas
Tongue and Groove Theatre commissioned this poster design for their Pinocchio Commedia.
In the future, mass devastation has lead humanity to abandon Earth. But, the children of the Far Side are left unaware of the mother planet…
