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?

More Christian stuff

Christian the Lion

Rat Fink cover sketch

This is the cover sketch I will be sending to Dutton. The goal is to make the boy, (Logan) look a little rattish, but still cute...and the girl, (Emily) a "snot" but likeable in the end. So, I've given the boy, beady eyes, ragged hair, a long nose that ends rather small and two front teeth that are prominent. For the girl, an upturned nose and posture along with the down turned eyebrow help to make her look snobbish. I hope she still looks cute. Grandpa is in the background in his flowered towel, which in the end will be pink. The black boy is Malik, and what's in his backpack is the secret that turns Logan into a RAT FINK. What d'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.

Rat Fink

Sketches are due on Tuesday, the 1st of October and I'm not close to being done...aaargh! Rat Fink is a cute middle grade novel. Black and white interiors and color cover. Basically, Logan (10 year old boy) is not happy that his grandpa (think dementia) has come to live with his family. Grandpa does goofy things...like going outside to pick flowers without getting dressed first, or as in part of this sketch, showing up at a school function and taking over the microphone to sing old songs. One thing Logan suggests to help grandpa find his way home is to give grandpa a camera. But it backfires on Logan when grandpa uses his camera to take a picture of Logan (left hand part of sketch), later used as fodder for blackmail by Logan's nemesis.

Two down, six to go.

New website ideas

I'm in the process of making a new website (sorely needed) and I'm toying with using this art (after painting of course) for the categories. Each animal would have a label, ie: books, portfolio, sketches, contact...you know how it works. Then when the mouse scrolls over the animal it would make a noise. Anywho, I'm not totally in love with this line drawing and might scrap the whole thing for something else...when I think of something else.