Creating Options for Holiday Cards.
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:
And proposal of the largest shoreline development on the SF Bay in 50 years and how it will affect local wetlands:
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
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 :)
At Last!
My book - "The Cat with No Name" is here - I received my first few copies they smell soooo good :) And it feels good too!
You will find more information and all 8 illustrations on my web-site:
Page 1 http://www.apple-pine.com/bk/bk_01.html
Page 2 http://www.apple-pine.com/bk/bk_02.html
Page 3 http://www.apple-pine.com/bk/bk_03.html
Page 4 http://www.apple-pine.com/bk/bk_04.html
Page 5 http://www.apple-pine.com/bk/bk_05.html
Page 6 http://www.apple-pine.com/bk/bk_06.html
Page 7 http://www.apple-pine.com/bk/bk_07.html
Page 8 http://www.apple-pine.com/bk/bk_08.html
E-mail me if you want a copy!
In preparation for the Cat Book
"The Diversity King" - process
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"
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










