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Coming Attractions!
Last night I cooked up a delicious pot of Red Lentil Thai Chili for dinner. It was for nourishment as well as doing my part of a guest blogging swap that I’m participating in with Jean Ciemniecki Mead. I made sketches of some of the ingredients to go along with my post for Jean’s blog,…
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Illustration Portfolio App
Great news! The Graphic Artists Guild iPad app is now available, and five of my illustrations are featured. It is F-R-E-E so I hope any of you who have iPads will download it and let me know what you think… especially if you’re an art director! ; ) Here’s the link:Graphic Artists Guild on the…
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Farmers’ Market
This page is part of Adele’s trip to the market where she buys a lot of her food. In an earlier post, I showed you the luscious strawberries that she picked up on the same shopping trip, and this page drawing faces that page. Adele’s story is set during the springtime, but shopping at an…
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Above is a sketch I did as a tribute to the famous Brassai photo of the Montmatre steps from the early 1930s.http://www.amazon.com/Escaliers-Montmartre-Paris-Poster-Brassa%C3%AF/dp/B0000WJIPQ It is going to be a very small part of the Adele book I’m working on, and I wanted to include it since I have been an admirer of his work for a…
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Hello, July, here comes December!
As a rather laid back online retailer, I was surprised to see an e-mail today about “Free Shipping Day” on December 16th in my inbox. Then again, every year I wish I had stared on my Christmas card illustration earlier! Maybe I should start sketching now…. I know that my 2011 card will involve another…
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Henrí in the Spotlight
One of the characters in my story and an important part of Adele’s life is her feline companion, Henrí, named for Henrí Matisse, one of my favorite artists. Henrí is rarely seen without his beret and can converse with all humans, not just Adele. On this page he is terrorizing pigeons, one of his favorite…
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AIR Gallery art
I painted and drew the artwork picture above for the A.I.R. gallery’s benefit show Wish You Were Here 10. Many artists, both well-known (for example, Yoko Ono) and lesser-known (for example, me) contributed 4″ x” 6″ original art. I was there tonight for the main opening of the postcard show and it was a lot…
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A Show of Hands
In this post I have to be honest, I am not good at drawing hands. Since my college figure drawing classes, rendering that body part has always given me the most trouble. In my sketches, they end up looking like “Attack of The Claw,” sausages, (as one of my Illustration professors put it), or worse!…
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Rainy Weekend Post
I’m taking a break from the errands and cleaning doldrums on this rainy Sunday to share another page of the Adele book. Most of what I currently have is at this level of completion. I am still fine-tuning the composition and details, but I have decided that this one looks good enough to share. I…
Art, Design, Writing, and Marketing by Nancy C. Sampson
