My first comics were about birds. Later I created comics for Geosphere Packaging about the amazing and terrible story of plastic. A California Humanities Grant funded a comics project about trees for the City of Glendale in 2020.
I make hand drawn maps in all sizes. Clients include TOMS Shoes and The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. I drew my first wall map, eighteen feet high and twenty feet wide, for The Valley Project in Santa Barbara in 2010. Drawn in chalk, it is still there!
I like projects that have something to do with how we got here and all the amazing plants and animals that are part of that journey. I was once asked to illustrate a golf course and instead illustrated everything around the golf course. My work for representing client mission ends up being mostly about other things.
In 2007 I was living in Hollywood and began making signs and putting them in the neighborhood. I wanted to illustrate the plants and animals living with us. You can see more of this project at ELKOLOGY
Work for causes I care about.
I painted my first Los Angeles mural in 1995. I've painted murals for Paramount films and Westfield Malls, and smaller projects also. Since 2018, I am working on The Mural Project : four exterior walls are becoming teaching walls for a Title 1 school in Los Angeles. The project was awarded an Abbey Mural Prize by The National Academy of Design in 2023.
The Pinki Vitz drawings are my daily drawing practice.
