Jack and Jill‘s March/April issue is out, and here is one of the illustrations I did for it. All the illustrations were for an article about going green for Earth Day (April 22). I painted one big illustration (the one here), and a bunch of smaller ones (I’ll post those over the next few days).
New illustrations uploaded to site
I’ve added a couple new illustrations to the extras page of the site today. Two empty slots are left, and once they get filled up and I’m ready to upload more I’ll start removing the ones there now. Not sure yet if I’ll repost the removed ones somewhere later or not, so look while you can.
Crocuses
Crocuses snuck out of the ground while I was watching the snow melt and flood the yard. Less than a day after this picture, our local bunnies ate every one of these down to the stem. It looked like a baby lawnmower went through.
“Read” poster illustration
I’ve only gotten so far as a sketch for my next “Read” illustration, but here it is. The idea was mostly for the teachers and librarians who are using my previous “Read” illustration in their classrooms and libraries. I wanted to gear this one toward those “reluctant reader” types (boys). I’ll be painting the whole thing in Painter, and uploading it …
Poetry Macabre
Ha! I had a nice, long drive to Erie on Monday, and wrote my first (and maybe only, we’ll see) poem for the book on the way up. It started as one of those first thoughts in the morning before you’re really awake kind of things about a week ago, and I already had an illustration sketch drawn and revised …
Paintings I did 20 years ago
I’ve posted a few scans of paintings I did around 15 and 20 years ago as a photo album on Facebook. If you’ve seen the scans of drawings from around that time, you’ll know these were all finished before I went back to school for art. I used to use really tiny brushes at the time, and it took me …
My illustrations on somebody else’s blog!
Isn’t it the coolest thing when you run across your work on the Internet in a place where you didn’t put it? I was doing some site submissions to Google when I ran across a blog from last September that shared some of my work, and the blog wasn’t mine. It belongs to Jennifer Daniels, a Brooklyn-based graphic designer and …
66 pages and counting!
I’m just finishing up some illustrations that will put the page count for the book at 66! That’s about one-third the final length I had in mind, but it seems to be coming together quickly enough. I’m planning on writing about 225-240 pages to send off to a few hand-picked and trusted friends to read and evaluate and provide feedback. …
Drawings I did 20 years ago
I’ve scanned in photos I found of some old drawings I did a long, long time ago. These are way before I ever went back to school for art, so everything you see in this album was self-taught. You can tell I was still tight with my lines and basing everything on realism, but you have to get that part …
Animal tracks in the snow
As you probably know, those of us in the northeast got wolloped three times (so far) this winter with buckets of snow. It’s always cool to get up in the morning and see what’s been in the yard overnight. Because we try to keep our property as natural as possible, we tend to attract the wildlife that used to call this area …
New illustrations posted
I’ve finished a couple more pages of the graphic novel, The T Rex and the Hare, which is set to be included somewhere in the new book. Both pages are available for viewing on the illustration page of the Hairy Eyeballs site. I’m planning on finishing all of the images in the book with powdered graphite along with artist’s graphite pencils so the illustrations stay unified. …
New business card design
I’ve been working on a lot of graphic design projects for Adventure Foods (based in Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania) including Firefly Chocolates, their shop at Westmoreland Mall in Greensburg. We wanted their business cards to reflect the same look and feel we’ve already established for this arm of the company, specifically the posters and signage I had designed for previous projects. These images show the front and back of their new cards.