Guest Artist....My brother :)

This week's entry comes to us from Arizona. It's of ...our MOM! :)
I've also commissioned from him a "me".

No Small Personalities

For Scott - who knows his employees have discriminating tastes when it comes to dating. Part of my unofficial discerning t-shirt collection.

Life without a wingman...

For Jen H. - who realizes a good wingman is hard to find, especially when that wingman is co-piloting two planes.

Sha Sha

This is a small flyer I pulled out of my archives ( that should have been posted in March!). At any rate, I loved the idea of a torn paper flyer/ad for a "paper" artist.

Virginia International Tattoo Logo

This logo took 3 years, over 50 different variations, and at least 100 "move over a squoshes". I am extremely pleased with/proud of it. It all began with two bagpipers and a dream. It has also become the gold standard in Leslie Logo Building endurance tests.

New Tattoo Ideas

This is my take on the VIT pipers. Even though they don't really wear platform boots and have mohawks, a girl can dream. ;)

TPVWF LOGO

And the winner is....

This was the final selection for this years Town Point Virginia Wine Festival. I loved working on the designs for this nearly as much as I love attending.

Winefest and Me

Long before I ever attended a Town Point Wine Festival, I had an appreciation for the mermaid posters that accompanied the festival for years. I always wanted my crack at rendering the girls, and recently got the chance - but FE wanted to go a new direction instead using different interpretations of wine itself. These were my first drafts - that didn't make the cut (at least this year).

These were a rare opportunity for me to develop illustration specifically meant for repetitive graphic design use.

NATOFEST

True Confessions: I obviously worked on materials for this in April/May.  That being said, I was proud of this piece and didn't get to showcase it like I wanted at that time.  Lavaponyland is playing catch-up these days.  So hang in there loyal readers, more graphics goodness on the way.

Books in the Park/Acoustic Festival

I meant to post these before the event so they could function as FYI as well as blog portfolio pieces. 

Curses Netflix distracting me from my blog duties. 

* These were rack cards resized for blog viewing.

Ian

This little dog means the world to my Aunt Lou and Uncle Ron, unbeknownst to them I'm working on this piece for my mom to give them for Christmas. I'm keeping this as exhibit a. that my mom does indeed like dogs, especially Ian.

*UPDATE* Gift went over smashingly well. I may have to start on some more good will endeavors and drop offs. Christmas Prints!

Bayou Boogaloo...... Revisited

I know I had already posted something for the Boogaloo a few months ago, but I recently got some accolades for it. So I thought I would repost the outside panels. The theme for the piece design wise was nothing fancy in terms of the folds, but spicy in terms of colors and layout.

On-site piece (tabloid) resized for blog viewing

The fonts used were Nueva (display) & Futura (body).

Virginia Children's Festival

On-site piece (tabloid) resized for blog viewing

Greg's Uncanny B-day Illustration

My favorite X-man has always been the cajun. :)
For Greg -
who appreciates comics despite gaps in the "continuum."

Meg D and the Cupcakes

For Megan - who waited patiently nearly two years for me to sit down and finish this for her. :)

Bayou Boogaloo

If you're in the 757 this weekend, come check out the Bayou Boogaloo. I've never made it to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but I've heard this maybe the closest thing in this area.

It doesn't hurt that I'm a fan of True Blood, Beads, and Crabcakes. Or that I designed this year's site map.

It's getting hairy this summer..

I spent around 2 weeks wrapping up a pretty big freelance project. I would showcase said project, but this client is sorta coveted by me and I’m taking my time to see how successful the final prints turn out. So this morning I rewarded myself with a few hours on my two favorite blogs OMG POSTERS and GOMEDIAZINE. After lengthy design projects, I find I’m fairly useless for 2 or 3 days post design binge and taking in all the “creative” I can find helps restore balance to the force.

Speaking of the force, here’s an illo I did of Chewbacca to get someone’s attention a few weeks ago. I don’t think it worked, but I find him cute and blogworthy. Imagine how hot Chewbacca would get at Virginia Beach? And you thought you were having a bad hair day....

Drums at the Beach 2010

Promises. Promises.

It shouldn't be so hard to update a blog should it? The good news is I'm designing. The bad news is I'm not posting.
What is up with that?

This years "Drums at the Beach" poster didn't make it to print, but it did make it to the web and as a a poster you can download if you checkout the page on the VAF website.
I'm quite proud of it. So check it.

Email me if you like it - Call me if you want to convince me iphone is better than droid. :)

Technical issues...

I'm still working out the kinks on blogger in draft. Apparently it doesn't hold it's formatting in all browsers. Sloppy tabbing and useless gaps (padding as its called in web land) doesn't sit entirely well with me. Quite simply - I want the art to fill the space. What's the use in having a billboard on the interstate with text set in 10pt copy? Meh.