2023
As the sun sets and the Mojave desert begins to cool, Chuckwalla ventures out to explore the native plants and animals inhabiting this rough and beautiful landscape he calls home.
Zipper pouch made with Blue-Q. Available to purchase on their website.
Unpublished kid's book dummy.
Through Elsa's Eyes is an autobiographical book that follows iconic fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and her daughter Gogo through an eventful day in 1930s Paris. With the aid of Elsa's humorous and inventive mind, they envision some of her most well-known couture fashions based on what they see. A shoe for a hat? Why not!
2 color silk screen with a final black lithography layer on top. 22”x30”. Limited edition of 10. Available at Hey There Projects.
Limited edition towel I designed for Dealer based in Mexico City.
Children’s book dummy. Hilda is a butterfly who loves to do lots of creative things. One day, she thinks of her most creative idea yet. A way to express to the world the creative butterfly she truly is.
Keiji Ishida and I led a group mural project for ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. We curated and helped students to plan and execute their section of the wall. The theme was storefronts.
My section of the wall was the clay studio and shop.
Accordion fold handmade art book about the first American women astonauts.
The image shown first was selected for the American Illustration book 41 and won a Graphis Honorable Mention award.
Four color risograph print about quilts made by British soldiers in the mid-1800s. Limited edition of 30.
This print won a Graphis Silver medal and a Society of Illustrators award.
Hand-bound, limited edition, 32-page zine containing ink drawings of almost all the ceramic pieces I have made in 2019 and 2020. Each cover is made of a different vintage wallpaper sample.
Available to purchase in my shop.
A risograph zine about Frances Benjamin Johnston. She was a pioneer of her time and artist who pushed against social norms.
Cover and inside illustration for Luckbox magazine.
This is an illustration job I did with Converse where I was asked to do my interpretation of the Star Chevron logo. Drawn with ink and watercolors.
I created a quilt-themed Oracle card deck, featuring 22 quilt block cards and 11 portraits of influential figures in quilting. To give it a modern touch, I used a vibrant color palette resembling risograph printing. The deck comes with a box and booklet, containing the card meanings and brief bios of the individuals.
A project I did at Artcenter college of Design where I illustrated a spread for the New York Times for Kids newspaper. This spread is about Hans Christian Andersen’s impressive hobby of making papercut art pieces.
A short comic about growing up with my childhood friend Tigerlily.
Series of posters that use science to explain how masks, the virus, and the vaccine work.
This series was made in collaboration with Forest Rohwer at the Rohwer Lab & Viral Information Institute at SDSU. Visit coralandphage.org for more information about them.
You can print these posters for free in the ‘free pintables’ tab on my website. There is a Spanish-translated version of every poster available.
See the Instagram versions of these posters on my profile @lilitoddart
A class project from Artcenter College of Design where I designed the NYT magazine cover for an article called “The Climate Novelist Who Transcends Despair”. The article is about novelist Lydia Millet.
Inks on watercolor paper. 2022
Collection of watercolor portraits.
2023
This zine highlights 10 women quilters who are part of a long history of women in Gee's Bend, Alabama making world-famous abstract quilts that are hung in museums around the world. In this book, I have painted one quilt made by each of the 10 women and wrote a little bit about each person.
All profits from editions 1 and 2 were donated to the Gee's Bend quilters through Souls Grown Deep. $915.72 was raised.
These zines are for sale in my etsy shop.
Comic quoting Annie Murphy Paul talking about her book “The Extended Mind” on the Ezra Klein Show.
Risograph poster made for the 2020 election to encourage awareness for the climate crisis. Below is the original ink drawing for the print.
Coloring page and zine for the 2022 DTLA Earth Crisis Day event and the Sierra Madre Earth Day event.
Drawing on found sheet music made with ink and gel stick. Available to purchase on my shop.
Two posters about how symbiosis works in coral reefs and why overfishing is a harmful impact on that system. Printed with risograph.
Made with help from scientists from JCVI. https://www.jcvi.org
You can print these for free under the ‘free printables’ tab on my website.
‘River talk’ is a continuous scroll comic about an interview with Lindsey Verrill and Jeff Johnston from the Band Little Mazarn about their 2020 album ‘Texas River Song’
https://www.littlemazarn.net
Sculpture made with wood and acrylic gouache.
Sculptural painting made with air-dry clay, acrylic, and epoxy on panel. Was shown at Giant Robot Gallery in Los Angeles in 2020.
8.5”x11” limited edition of 25. Available in my shop. Original piece is made with watercolors and ink.
This is an ongoing series where I collect quotes I encounter in my daily life that resonate with me in that moment or encouraging thoughts I have that keep me going. I pair each sentence with a bird and experiment with materials and shapes. This is a practice that helps me cope with anxiety and stress and it helps me maintain a sense of play and experimentation in my work.
2019
I did a series of illustrations about shops, restaurants, and interesting destinations you travel to on the Metro in Downtown Los Angeles. These spreads were published in the DTLA 2019 book by District 8 media.
Drawing on paper made with ink and watercolor.
Drawing made with watercolor and ink on paper.
Limited edition postcard set.
