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For the past 11 years, Duluth Minnesota has hosted the Homegrown Festival. Originally started as a birthday party for a local dj / band member / all-around good guy, it has grown into a weeklong, areawide festival of music, arts, plays, poetry and more. A sort of SXSW for our North Central region. New this year was a Video Festival: participants drew a local band and song out of a hat and had 48 hours to make a video. Here's a link to mine for the Black-Eyed Snakes:
I snuck in a scene with Duluth's mayor, he asked me for the still image, and it's now his Facebook profile picture. Whew! I thought he might send his goons out after me. Lot's of local references in here, so if they don't make sense outside of Minnesota, I apologize. But here's all you really need to know: - Duluth is on Lake Superior - Lake Superior attracts tourists - and seagulls - There's a bridge that has to move up and down several times a day to let boats through a canal. - Black-Eyed Snakes are an awesome band and I was really lucky to draw that song.
A painting I did for a fundraiser - the Lake Superior Advertising Federation provides scholarships and grants for local students. 12" x 12", acrylic on wood panel
I never mind when monsters enjoy the theater, as long as they don't gab during the film. I wonder if this guy has Optimum Triple Play. He could bring his friend to the cinema on Tuesday nights to share his popcorn and the warmth of his fur. P.S. Your work is beautiful. Mary Killian www.littlebigtop.blogspot.com
I haven't posted anything for a long time - I've been scrambling to finish up all the illustrations for a second book.
I've got minor revisions to one illustration, then the drawings for My Favorite Places A-Z will be done. The actual books for My Favorite Sounds have shipped and are available online, and should be in bookstores soon.
Phwew.
Above are some of the pieces from Favorite Places - the cover, M - for Museum of Science, J- for Jungle Gym, F - for Flower shop.
1 Comments on My Favorite Places, last added: 7/1/2007
Today, I got the printer proofs for the book I've been working on. I look at proofs like this almost everyday at my '"real" job . This is the part of the projects I hate. I've had some real "Doh!" moments, finding things that were missed during weeks of looking at a project. Luckily this looked pretty good. I was especially nervous about this project.
I've recently posted a brand new interview with Duluth's own, Brian Barber over at Design Inspiration. Brian is a highly talented illustrator, animator and art director who also happens to be a member of SFG. Be sure to check out his great interview, and be sure to leave him a comment or two. Enjoy!
-Jeff
0 Comments on DI - BRIAN BARBER as of 4/4/2007 7:25:00 AM
This is something I did looooong ago for a news weekly in the Twin Cities. The AD asked a group of Minneapolis illustrators to interpret "Tippy" from the Draw Tippy ads for the art school which was located in St. Paul. They were doing a story about that art school. The best one was a Tippy done as seed art by a woman who always had a booth at the MN State Fair. Her version was the cover.
Interesting side note - I couldn't find this art to post, but I used the Wayback machine on archive.org to pull up one of my very first web sites.
That amazes me (and scares me a little bit) that all that stuff is floating around out there somewhere.
0 Comments on Character Update as of 3/22/2007 1:42:00 PM
I'm in a band. 4 of the 6 of us are older dad-types. I feel a bit like Kevin on the office. It's like a dark little secret sometimes. In this band I play drums. Like Kevin on The Office. And I also am in charge of posters. I don't know if Kevin does posters.
I've cobbled together a screenprinting setup to print posters. My kids gave me a basic speedball set for Christmas, and I keep adding on as time goes on. I worked in t-shirt printing shops for several years in college and right after college. At the time I took so much for granted, like aluminum, retensionable frames, 320 count mesh, vacuum table exposure units, big, backlit wash-out sinks, and so on.
The poster above is the poster I just finished. It looked better in the illustrator file, I think. I should have mixed the pink lighter. And I've got some issues with my screen exposure setup (a 500 watt halogen shop light suspended above the screen which is laying on the floor with a piece of glass over it.) Here's another print I did a couple months ago that came out better, I think.
It would be so much easier (and cheaper) to go get color copies made from the file. But since I usually illustrate with a wacom tablet, I like the mess, the preparation, the tools, the stuff, that screenprinting requires. Not that I'd want to do it everyday, but it sure is a cool change of pace and a way to look at the art in a totally different way.
5 Comments on Post Something Monday - Screenprint, last added: 3/13/2007
I never mind when monsters enjoy the theater, as long as they don't gab during the film. I wonder if this guy has Optimum Triple Play. He could bring his friend to the cinema on Tuesday nights to share his popcorn and the warmth of his fur.
P.S. Your work is beautiful.
Mary Killian
www.littlebigtop.blogspot.com
nice!!!
Thanks!