Mr. Jiffy

Here are two ideas for the Band "Jiffy" Darrel asked for something with a Mexican flavor and a skull. He also liked the connection with the peanut butter...why? Dunno, but I tried.

Remember and Prepare

I've been asked to be the chairman for a big commemoration of 9/11 here in Modesto. Most things will have to be delegated out, but I gave myself the job of making a poster for the event. The text is subject to change (it still needs editing by the committee) but hopefully the changes won't be major. I saw a similar poster online and modeled mine after it. I've made plenty of changes but I can't take all the credit.

New Band Poster

I'm a bit slow with this poster but I like the way it turned out. Fun, whimsical, musical, I think.
Let me know what else needs to be added.

Posters for Del Mar College

More blue texture from Mr. Hester, plus some vector images (perfect for manipulation because they stay crisp and clean when you size up) from dezignus.com. They are royalty free, if you mention where you got them!

The New People and Composition Symposium

I'm excited about all the blues that are happening in this and the next poster. I have to give credit where credit is due. I found a site with some royalty free grunge textures created by Darren Hester. I've manipulated one of his, together with some of my own images to create the background.

Go to grungetextures.com to find some of your own.

A Night of Symphonies

Try to guess what texture I used in the background. Here's a hint: it's something you use at least once a week. Generally, I like these posters in a vertical format, but I couldn't resist a landscape layout since the title of the poster is A "Night" of Symphonies. I wanted to promote the physical earthiness (is that a word?) of the whole thing, hence the landscape view.

Fall Classic

Three layers in the background make for a big file! I found a great site with free textures. I'm a crazed woman when it comes to textures. Three fonts too. Myriad Pro, Kunstler Script and ...well, I can't remember the third. I'll have to look it up before I send it to the printer.

Caribbean Rite

I love the way this poster came together. For the background I began with an image I had saved on my computer just waiting for the right application. I duplicated it so I had two of them, flopped one of the duplicates and put it on top of the other. I moved them around until I began to see a "face" come together in a very subtle way. On top of that I placed another image which I hope the viewer will recognize - but not too quickly. All of these layers have a bit of transparency so that texture from each layer adds to the final version. Then the whole thing gets flattened into one finished background.

Finding the right font is always fun. I have used two, Blackadder and Tw Cen MT Condensed -one serif and one sans serif to compliment each other. The color for the fonts are "picked" out of the background.

It's always a challenge to include all of the text that Darrell asks for without destroying the background underneath, but I think it works here.

Colored Up

I hope this isn't too colorful for you all. Let me know. I have the other files ready to send.

2010 Summer Band Camp

Darrell, this is just a beginning idea. The individual letters could be different colors, I could add more little viking guys with musical instruments or scrub the whole thing for something else.
I also need to know if you want a date on the poster...I may have missed that on your email. Let me know what you think. I think the date would look great in the middle of the "d".

2010 Composition Symposium

Hard to believe a whole year has come around since the last symposium! What'dya think of this new image? Pretty fun. You'll have to imagine the right side edge. Because it's white without any box around it, it doesn't show up. Same size poster (11x17) as always.

A New England Halloween

The background was taken from one of N.C.Wyeths paintings entitled "The Magic Pool". Painted in 1907. It is a beautiful piece with an Indian in the middle drinking from the water. I took out the Indian and a few other elements and then darkened what was left. I love all things Wyeth.

Okay, I had to use my old Photoshop Elements 3 in order to export this poster with the correct color. This is the final version. I hope.

Composition Symposium Poster. For some unexplained reason when I uploaded this image the color was changed to it's opposite. It is actually red, brown, pink...not blue, purple or green.
Well, you'll get the idea when you look at the background on the poster (2nd one down) below.

The Latest Poster

Here are two ideas for Darrell's latest poster. I originally did the reddish brown one and then decided that the background would serve a more contemporary design better. So, I changed the background and the text placement and came up with the more Renaissance feeling piece.
I like the brown background for this particular poster and will use the more contemporary background for the more contemporary concert...coming next.

Poster for Darrell's next concert...Day of the Dead! I have another version, the only difference being the November 1st text is red instead of white. Whatd'ya think?

A Musical Celebration

Darrell has given me another opportunity to exercise my graphic design muscles. I used the traditional Kanagawa Wave as the beginning, changed the background, took out the boats and fishermen, posterized it, changed the size and added text. Back in the 70's the great poster artist, Mac Magleby changed the wave, morphed the edges of the wave into birds that flew up into the sky, changed the shape from horizontal to vertical and added the text, "PEACE" across the top. His version pops up all over the place. It's a great wave. Oh, the school logo should be placed up in the left hand corner, next to the boxed text.

The Quilt Store

Recently, a friend's daughter paid me to create a logo for her new quilting store, LadyBug's Quilts. Originally she asked that I create a black, white and red logo. Thankfully, she decided to use more color (afterall, it's a fabric store full of color!) and this was what we came up with together. She has this on her business cards and store bags and even on the cash register receipts. If you're ever in Manteca California make sure you stop and buy your quilting material from Jenny Dancy!

Another Version

How's this one? More musical? Keep your fingers crossed.

Fun design, but no go

I liked this design...but unfortunately, by emphasizing the "Viking" text, the music camp got relegated to second fiddle. Back to the drawing board.