The Art of Decluttering

The Washington Post asked me to create a cover illustration and inside spot for their lifestyle magazine about the art of de-cluttering. The art editor asked me to illustrate a dejected woman surrounded by an avalanche of stuff, followed by a second illustration of the same woman (calmer and happier) having finally dug her way out from under it. The two images merged in an animated gif https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/i-was-getting-buried-in-clutter-heres-how-i-finally-got-free/2018/01/16/c6592f1a-e054-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html