https://www.gharewood.com/home daily 1.0 2021-01-21 https://www.gharewood.com/about daily 0.75 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1611102988364-XL5JH0BQ0U0KTV6QRN0R/profile.jpg About - Hi! I’m Greer (the human). My characters and landscapes all start analog style - hand painted and drawn generally using some combination of watercolor paints and pencils, graphite, pen and ink. Some also get digital intervention to remove an errant line or to fiddle with color before scanned images are sent off for print. I love fairytales and illustrated stories. As a child of the 80s, I rarely saw people who looked like me in the storybooks I loved. Watching my young nephews joyously banter about Miles Morales or cross their arms in a “Wakanda Forever” salute is enough to understand some of what we are denied when we don’t see ourselves portrayed in popular culture. My characters tend to be imaginary creatures and places. When in doubt, I draw trees. When I draw humans, I tend to draw characters of varying hues of brown skin. My characters also tend to be women. How we are portrayed (or not portrayed) in media and the arts matters. Increasing representation of people of color in art and more generally, creating space and exposure for our varied narratives and experiences is deeply important to me as a woman of color and as an illustrator. https://www.gharewood.com/gallery daily 0.75 2021-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1600983556220-VD4K180P04KL88JVAAGU/boyinhat_forweb_72ppi.jpeg Gallery - Boy in Hat. Illustration by A. Greer Harewood. (Copy) Boy in Hat (v2) - AKA: If Donald Glover and I had a giant green love child who turned 8 and met a woodland elf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1600999252839-ZWVR0D301OEG3ZR6623D/8by5.5.climbingtreesinmittens_forweb.jpg Gallery Climbing Trees is Hard in Mittens - obviously. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1601010936967-R16ARSKXUUOEEMPTUYPY/birdlady_8by10-forweb_bright.jpg Gallery Bird Lady - she is a nester. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1600999081375-FCO7D8A217S2WN3LNRW7/women_8.5by11_forweb.jpg Gallery Night Dip - some of us are comfortable naked...some of us are not. And that's okay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1601003697122-AIGOHC1MNIPYDTTYZR8C/Dream2.forweb_25by19.jpg Gallery The Request - Sorry bro, you can't have my hat. My mom made it, for me, to fit my human-sized head, to keep it warm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1607208682366-G9Q7QROMPZZOM2VMKIGY/iseeyou.web_80ppi.jpg Gallery Up There - she may not see you, but she knows you are there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1601009740890-50HEEMLH5V42Q04Q3YOD/dream_8by10_forweb.jpeg Gallery Dream 1 - when you find yourself grasping your own hands, and you think, that's weird, but then you realize you were dreaming. It's still weird, but now you have an explanation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1600987761085-9EDQZM6AMVNKA8H56LKX/coverband_web.jpg Gallery Cover Band - Most of the time, we sing the Temptations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/c636be4c-1c26-4310-9eee-be1613e01dc0/Fishing.Lesson_96ppi.jpg Gallery Fishing Pole - Whatever about the fishing pole, clearly her braids steal the show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/d0a620f6-d02f-4d0e-9bdb-43bfd1ab9901/walk_web_96ppi.jpg Gallery Red Riding Hood - Many years later, she walked through the same wood with her son. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/a2368fbe-1d8f-4ad5-bf72-a21b63665284/Climb_digitaledit_96ppi.jpg Gallery Above the Canopy - The air is so thin up here... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1611183002602-T47FH4MWKG762LH2EPY6/Allergies_800_digitaledit1_web.jpg Gallery Allergies (v2) - in the before times, when sniffles were likely pollen allergies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1600981867051-9A879EX2P19SDBO0UYCC/02_throughthetrees_highcontrast_v2_forweb_96ppi.jpg Gallery Through the Trees (v2) - and finally, stepping through the trees... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1601001749238-8G674BOILVBJIEO2PDV4/babayaga_forweb_11by15.jpeg Gallery Baba Yaga's House - the house stood on chicken legs, so that no matter your approach, the wicked house would turn to face you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1600988473877-6BOKQNLFWTDBOYVK3031/backgammon_forweb_72ppi_highcontrast.jpg Gallery Backgammon - board games and summer days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1601010182586-1XSKAKAFCEYWKNE0TL8K/13_wellghost_forwebi_10by8.5.jpg Gallery Well Ghost - personally speaking, I avoid ghosts in wells... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1600982653920-FPF3TW3O9OC22LY991KT/03_Wetland_96ppi_forweb.jpg Gallery Wetland - a little seasonal inundation, a little wetland fringe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1601000496905-UKWCQTO9WN4F5UAC2VH3/foxinfoxhole_forweb_8by5.jpg Gallery Mx. Fox (v2) - Mx. Fox is foxy and Mx. Fox knows it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1607208750102-OY2IO0BB24CBZA4MEH3B/rain_6by6_forwebi.jpg Gallery Yep, Its Raining - AKA: lanky pig person on a dog horse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1601001028882-S6IZH1S6LGW0EAO5UHD6/Dreamwithdogs_9+by+8_forweb.jpg Gallery Glamping (v2) - definitely antithetical to ultra light camping, nonetheless, sometimes a mattress is desired when sleeping under the stars. Also fluffy wolf-dog-foxes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6cf312778ea719bf68bd3a/1611183151237-T052P5ZMP122ZLWHPW14/OwlMadame_96ppi_enhanced_web.jpg Gallery Owl Madame - there are Cat Ladies and then there are Owl Madames.