Year of the Pufferfish
posted: December 29, 2009
Year of the Pufferfish
I wish all of Drawgerville and the fans and supporters of Illustration a Happy New Year.
I have enjoyed making some nice new friends during my year on drawg, thank you Zimm.
Pufferfish | 12" x 15" | Monotype on Japanese paper
Let it Snow
posted: December 15, 2009
Have a nice holiday season and let it snow, Leopards. A few new DVD covers for Lynda.com.
Mac OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard
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iTunes 9
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Karen's Bakery
posted: December 8, 2009
This mural project was a blast to create for Karen's bakery. The mural covers a 9' window on the side of the building containing the bakery and the bake staff. It was designed to allow children to look through the Viewmaster and into the Bakery and watch the bakers do their stuff. Before I accepted the assignment I worked with the printer to see how my work would translate to the giant decal. The printer sent me a 2' decal of a cropped section of my work and when I saw that decal, I was totally on board.
Alternate color background
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Sample to test scaling and resolution
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Tell Your Story
posted: December 4, 2009
Capture, edit, and deliver video online, on air, on disc, or on device.
Tell your story with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 software.
DVD cover for Lynda.com
Art Direction: Heather Stallings
My Inspiration
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Beyond the Medal
posted: December 1, 2009
Here is a piece for Patrick JB Flynn at Rethinking Schools for a story about Caldecott Medal winning books for children containing ableist and discriminating stereotypes against people with physical,mental, or emotional disabilities. Unlike books intended for older audiences, picture books rely on visual art to convey meaning. Children can read these picture books on their own and don't need to have the meaning mediated by an adult.
I finished the sketches and went to send them to Patrick and right then, we had a power outage due to strong winds. It was a beautiful sunny but windy day so I went outside and worked in the yard. I thought about the assignment and the isolation that a child must feel with any disability in such a big world and I came up with this idea. I threw away my old ideas and sent him this.
