I decided to make a series of glass fruit in Pride flag colors for the month of June, so of course I had to make a rainbow banana. The rainbow Pride flag is a long standing symbol for the LGBTQ+ community, and for the gay community in particular. Also I just love drawing bananas.

For Pride month I am making a series of glass fruit in the colors of LGBTQ+ flags. For the first one of this series I decided to make a trans flag pickle. Pickles are iconic in the transgender community because transgender women on spironolactone often crave salty foods. However, I’m a trans man and I…

One of the things that brings me the most joy in the world is fresh lemons. I was taking a walk along the water near the San Francisco Bay ferry and I saw houses with lemon trees and bright yellow ripe lemons out front. The sun, water and fresh fruit created a wonderful feeling of…

Bees As soon as I started drawing joyful art, I knew I wanted to draw bees. Although they might be scary to bump into in person, I feel like bee-themed artwork is always joyful in nature. Bees represent the spring and summer – ushering in warm weather and beautiful flowers. They make sweet honey to…

I was a weird kid. I loved eating vegetables ever since I can remember. Growing up farming gave me a deep appreciation for organic produce, and my favorite treat was baby carrots. No, not the “baby carrots” you see in the grocery store – which are just oddly shaped larger carrots cut down to shapes.…

I’ve been obsessed with fruit ever since I can remember. My first solid food as a baby was a raspberry, which is still probably my favorite fruit to this day. But for this piece I didn’t want to just fill it with my own favorites; I wanted to find fruits which have a whimsical nature…

The first time I moved to California I was living in Riverside, in the desert just outside of L.A. It was during a bad drought and it only rained twice during the whole year I was there. It was 95 degrees Fahrenheit on Christmas Day. But with no moisture in the air it felt less…

If there’s one thing you should know about me it’s that I love frogs. Frogs are just the best. Do you know why we think frogs say “ribbit?” Most frogs make some sort of a croaking noise, or if you’re on the east coast you might hear “peepers.” But there’s one type of frog in…

Fun fact: chickens are literally dinosaurs. They are direct descendants of the same group of dinosaurs as the T-rex which survived the mass extinction event. It’s likely that the T-rex also had similar feathers, but early drawings of them didn’t account for this and Hollywood decided to just keep depicting bald dinosaur hide in films…

For the third piece in this citrus series, I had to add a lime. Although limes also grow everywhere in California, I decided to travel back to the east coast and take this one to the Florida Keys. Towns like Key West have become famous tourist destinations for their great weather and beautiful beaches, and…