My Work Featured on ‘Writing and Illustrating’

I am quite honored to have my illustration work featured on ‘Writing and Illustrating,’ a fun and very informative blog on publishing by author-illustrator Kathy Temean. The interview, with lots of samples of my work, is here.

Please feel free to leave comments and questions at the bottom of Kathy’s blog, I will be checking it throughout the weekend.

A hearty thank you to Kathy for her help!

 

Next Illustration for ‘Lodging’ magazine

My newest illustration for Lodging magazine is for an article advising hotel owners who are interested in selling their property to ‘tell the story’ of the opportunity their hotel creates for investors. The editor of the magazine suggested a ‘story time’ scene, although she didn’t want it to make the adults look too silly. I did a pencil sketch for that idea and also tried a version where the hotel’s ‘story’ is a huge storybook –

 

She liked the big storybook better, so I tightened up the sketch a bit –

And sent the editor a quick color sketch with colored pencils, which she approved –

I drew the final art in prisma pencil on illustration board, and painted it in acrylic washes:

 

Illustration for Hotel Restaurant Article

Every month I receive an article to illustrate for the trade magazine Lodging, which deals with the hotel & hospitality industry. This month’s article was about hotels with restaurants in them, and how to make those restaurants economically viable by appealing to the public as well as patrons of the hotel.

Usually these articles have quotes from specific hotel managers giving their locale’s individual experience with a topic, which helps me come up with a more customized pictorial idea.  This article did not have any quotes, it was more general in tone, so my ideas had to be more generic as well.  I like it better when there are specifics, but sometimes it just doesn’t work out that way!

I sent two rough pencil sketches first, showing guests checking into the hotel but distracted by fragrant food being transported to the restaurant, and a group of businesspeople at a hotel restaurant being ‘served’ the suggestions recommended in the article for a successful hotel restaurant.

The editor went with the businesspeople idea, and so I tightened up the line drawing

and sent her a color sketch, which she approved –

ad then drew the finish first in black Prisma pencil and then painted it in washes of acrylic paint, on illustration board.

 

Illustrations for TAFE Productions

My friend Diane Crews has recently founded T.A.F.E. – Theatre Arts for Everyone, pronounced TAFee – in York, PA, and its mission is to give everyone the opportunity to be involved in, educated about, and entertained by the art of live theatre. Diane has been teaching, directing and writing fun and educational plays for young people and grownups too, ever since I’ve known her, and our friendship goes back a long time.

Her current season for TAFE includes a new version of The Jungle Book and A Christmas Carol, both of which I had a lot of fun drawing. I posted the pencil sketches last week –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diane made some minor suggestions with these drawings, and I made quick colored pencil color sketches of both before I painted the finishes –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then I traced them onto illustration board in prisma pencil and painted them in washes using acrylic paint thinned with water.

 

 

 

 

 

The Monday Cartoon, 1-28-13

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