Showing posts with label Projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Projects. Show all posts

Creating Options for Holiday Cards.

I enjoy making and sending Holiday Cards each year. Whatever you celebrate - the change of year is a great reminder for me to get in touch with people. Some years I am more prepared than others :) This was a year when for various reasons I thought I might forgo the whole thing altogether. But in the end, I started slowly - with a plan, moved from my options A to C going through the lists, and ended up with a bang: a little experimental project at the end of the year which was joyful on so many levels!
Below are some of the notes on the project with a couple of examples of the last part of the experimental cards that I sent out (the ones that I knew could arrive late because recipients know that they are coming - no matter how late I send them out (and some are still traveling:) 
After I sent my Holiday Greetings in the newsletter, via email, etc., and posted on social media, I got a bunch of questions about how I made the owl (bottom left below). And the answer is - I mixed a lot of techniques and it was a wild experiment! Details are in the last image of this post.





The Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter Newsletter

I had a wonderful opportunity to illustrate two articles In the latest issue of the The Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter Newsletter.

Sierra Club is a great grassroots environmental organization. These two articles cover two important local (for SF Bay area) issues:

Future California High Speed Rail and it's impact on Peninsula:
The Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter

And proposal of the largest shoreline development on the SF Bay in 50 years and how it will affect local wetlands:
The Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter

Click on images to see them in detail.

Full text of the articles should be available soonish online at:
http://www.lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/newsletter.asp


Quilting People


quilting_people_19, originally uploaded by apple-pine.

Images of people and some of their work.
See whole Quilting People Set on Flickr

I started using a fresh bottle of Blue-Black Noodlers Ink and went through many portraits before I decided to add watercolor over it - just to find out that it's not waterproof. After some cursing and some drawings trashed, I finished this series differently - with other ways of presenting quilts or just leaving people alone. Many more faces are waiting for me in that book - so may be I'll try to come back to it one day :)

In preparation for the Cat Book


I am working on a book - it's about a cat ;) And here is one of the sketches that has a chance to make it to the cover...

"The Diversity King" - process

As promised - here are some pictures to tell you a little story about creation of the Diversity King illustrations :)


I started with making notes and drawing silly doodles while reading a printout of the text. Then I did some rough sketches in my sketchbook to play with different compositions, characters, etc. At the same time I sent some words describing my approach to selecting places that needed to be illustrated to author and soon got his "go" :)


After I had developed solutions to most of the problems I saw I did some rough but better rendered sketches and sent them to author with minor text comments. I received overall approval with some minor adjustments and started working on detailed drawings.


Then came inking, then play with color solutions, then scanning and more color play and then combining everything for the final art.


Click o nimages to see larger version :)

"The Diversity King"

The Diversity King is a story written by Dr. Paul L. Gerhardt - it's about good things that come from diversity. I had a great time illustrating this feature and will be placing a short "process" report" here in my blog.

All final illustrations can be found on my web-site.

And you can browse part of the content from the lulu web-site:
http://www.lulu.com/browse/preview.php?fCID=1142051