A paper illustration for the World-Herald’s golf section. Photo by the inimitable Matt Miller.

hese are details from an illustration I made for a short story about a Portland shopping mall (and the smells of it, like caramel apples) springing out of a hole in the ground in the late 1950s. It’s entirely cut out of construction paper and glued to a paste-up board. Click the full image below for a high-resolution view. I mean, only if you want to, y’know. (And, in case you’re wondering, I cut out some 400 little, tiny leaves for this project).

his week’s A&E cover story for The Oregonian advances The Bite of Oregon festival taking place along the waterfront this weekend. I put together the cover illustration for the section using construction paper, posterboard and rubber cement. The idea of taking a literal bite out of the state of Oregon may lack subtlety, but the state is shaped so much like a sandwich it’s hardly obvious. (Much credit must also go to staff photographer Stephanie Yao Long for photographing the finished product and capturing the paper’s depth and texture. She’s awesome.)