Custom Prints Available

A nice lady in California recently ordered a print of my Casa Madrona poster.  She had fond memories the hotel and really liked my illustration of it. You too can have a print of any of my artwork at pretty much any size. This particular 22″ x 28″ printed with archival inks and signed was only $170 including tax and shipping.

Find out more about buying a print here.

FireSeed One – Book Cover Illustration and Design

I just finished a Young Adult, Science Fiction book cover illustration and design for NYC author, teacher, artist, Catherine Stine. She wanted to publish this through her own publishing company just formed called Konjur Road Press. The book will be published this year and will be for sale on Amazon.com and a few other places as an e-book. I’ll post a link when it’s up.

Without actually reading the entire book, Catherine gave me snippets of descriptions from the manuscript, picture inspiration, lots of detailed descriptions. Since she is an artist herself she was able to sketch out basically what she was thinking as well. Through collaboration and a few revisions we were able to nail it to get something we were both happy with. Here are a few process images to simply show that these covers take work and dedication, especially when it’s something that does not exist. It’s for a 6″ x 9″ book with a .6″ spine. Thumbnails done with pencil and paper with a little digital clean up. Final completed using Photoshop CS5  mainly with various pastel tip brushes. Had some help with Poser for the people, Illustrator for the map and foreground water farm on the back. I really like the way it turned out and want to do more. So please let me know if you need anything done. I’m happy to help.

Comments are welcome!

One is Not Zero

Sorry I have not been posting. I’m real busy with lots of work but can’t show any of it. Except this..

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta commissioned an original painting as gift for a retiring executive. He had a big part in creating their One is Not Zero program.

I hand delivered it yesterday to a very happy client.
11″ x 8.5″, acrylic on watercolor paper, no digital tweaks.

Swirly Fun!

Spirals are so much fun!

I was inspired by this Adobe Illustrator tutorial and did my own version in about 30 min. Completely created in Illustrator.

Conceptual Map

New work for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution in yesterday’s paper. It was for an informative article on the complexities or balkanization of the metro Atlanta counties government. Maybe Atlanta needs to downsize or just play nice and communicate with each other then we all win the game. The art can only be scene in print and here of course.

It was a challenge coming up with generic icons for various government officials. Most of the rendering was done in Illustrator and texture was added in Photoshop. Please buy the paper so I can continue to get editorial jobs like this.