The first of four illustrations commissioned by Seven Salon Spa is at last complete. This is undoubtably the most complex piece I’ve ever done in Adobe Illustrator, but boy was it fun to get back into the drawing-zone again.
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You might say we had a wee bit of rain this summer. Or like me, you might begin to imagine that what they mean by climate change is that the weather you normally associate with your area is suddenly switched for that of an entirely different locale; say, Seattle for instance. From what I hear they’d like their regular weather back too. I guess the silver lining to our many clouds has been that I was not so tempted to run and play outside or while away the hours in the garden.
Instead I’ve been staring into the depths of my monitor. Diving back into Adobe Illustrator creating an illustration of Seven Salon and Spa (and their gardens) in Stockbridge, MA. Also completed a couple of wordpress site redesigns for two of Mike Glier’s recent projects, Along A Long Line and Antipodes. They are online artist’s travel journals documenting different locations around the globe. Mike is currently in Botswana in the first stop of the Antipodes series, painting, taking photos, and writing about the experience. I’d call his work abstract impressionist landscape—and amazing. Great sense of light, form, and color and I really admire his deftness with the palette knife to create textured overlays of color. I’m not keen on a lot of abstract art but his work is the kind of work I wish I were doing.
Mike Glier has a show coming up at the William’s College Museum and the book version of Along A Long Line (from Hard Press Editions, Lenox) is due back from the printer in September. I’m really looking forward to seeing both. I’ve spent the past few months deep in the land of color-correction staring at Mike’s paintings and I haven’t gotten tired of looking at them. But color on a computer monitor or even on the printed page can never truly compare to seeing the real thing.
A few of my favorites:
ARCTIC
“July 21, 2007, 40°F, N66°13 W65°75, Fog”
“August 10, 2007, 47°, N66°13 W65°75, Mount Duval”
NEW YORK
Seventh Street Garden Wisteria
CARIBBEAN
“February 19, 2008, N 18° 33, W 64° 79, 81° F, John’s Folly”
EQUATOR
“October 20, 2007, 89° F, S 01° 02, W 77° 36, rainforest”
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This month is dedicated to the final push to get to press Mike Glier’s new book along a long line, (published by Hard Press Editions) and an online marketing campaign promoting it. After that a newsletter for Clark & Green Architects and a series of illustrations for Seven Salon and Spa.
Which means I won’t be getting around just yet to making my own site look like do anything more than write about graphic design… Ah well, I am getting back into CSS a bit so at least I’ll come back with some new chops and some new pieces for my portfolio. And it’s Summer, the dog roses are blooming, peonies are swooning, and the Berkshires are doing the best imitation of a tropical rainforest possible in zone 5 New England. Life ain’t bad.
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It is the cruel nature of a blog to highlight, for all to see, just how long it’s been since you last posted. The past five months have been a whirlwind. The Hair Ball was a great success as was the publication of Kenneth Snelson’s Forces Made Visible and Irving Sandler’s Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience: A Reevaluation. In the relative lull that occurred after these historic events I’ve had the opportunity to work on a number of print ads, brochures, and online newsletter, a photoshoot of baby animals, and a blurb.com-published portfolio. As I delve more deeply into the Word Press experience I’ll be loading a gallery or two of my own portfolio on this site. In the meantime the block to the right has a small set of revolving samples.
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