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An update on the recent illustration front. I did 8 sketches for an article on Saxapahaw, NC for Walter Magazine for their May issue. Saxapahaw is a happening little town, about an hour's drive from Raleigh. Here you will find great natural beauty, music, art and craft, delish food, and lovely people.

Here are some images from that article. Click on link above for full text. All 8 illustrations appear in the print version, but not online.

 

 

My oyster illustration appeared in the Florida Weekly/Charlotte edition newspaper on April 24, 2014, on behalf of The Nature Conservancy, as part of their Coastal Awareness campaign. 

 

And today, I start a new assignment for the August issue of Walter, having this week finished one for the upcoming issue of Charleston Style & Design, a new client. I'll share these after they are published.  

Now to paint!

More from Italy

I grabbed an hour today from more pressing deadlines to process/scan these sketches. It is still May and I am still thinking about Italy!

I have a few more besides this crop to share, too. When? We shall see. It's back to the big stuff for me for the foreseeable future.

Venice is many things. One of them, often, is pink. The lanterns around St. Mark's square have rosy glass in them. And some of the marble in the Doge's Palace is pink, too.  I love this pinkness of Venice.

Venice is also very decorated. This I love, too. And the sculpted forms, the capitals of columns especially, are lively, charming, and surprising. Check out the fish heads adorning the capitals in the Rialto fish market sketch in the last post. Check out the herons on the capital here, atop a column of the Doge's Palace.

Okay, so it's not just Venice that is pink. Here is the main square in my favorite hilltown of the Veneto--- Montagnana. It, you will see, is pink. I made it pinker than it is, but that is what art is for.

And now back to Venice again, with the two last sketches. One is of gondolas. You know I had to. And they are not pink.

The rich darkness of Saint Roch's Church is populated with, in addition to magnificent Tiepolo and other Italian master paintings, giant lanterns and fanciful figures atop pilasters in the Grand Hall.

Back to painting and illustrating. I should, I HAVE TO, be through with the latter in a few days, so I will come back and report. Ciao!

Italy sketches, take one

Yes, dear friends, it's life in the Cuisinart lane again, so many projects rocking and rolling, deadlines looming, ideas popping left and right----all very exciting. And stressful. But mostly in a goodish way.

So, here, in between major items on the To Do list, comes the first batch of Italy sketches.  We had a memorable, lovely time. Italy is... Italy. I've fallen, hard.

Enough talk. Here are sketches:

Italy being Italy, as we've agreed it is, eating is a popular pastime. And, never ones to wish to be contrary, we did eat.

The two sketches below are the left and right sides of a single spread, made in my beautiful Cathy Johnson sketchbook filled with a variety of paper types.

 

 

 

 

And the sketches above show a similar spread, made at the Venice Fish Market. The color is off in the last image. I took an Iphone photo of it to show you how it works in the book itself. Here are the Hotel Cipriani ones in that same format. I'm having a terrible time formatting this post. My apologies for how clunky it is!

 

Finally, a sketch of one of the many lions of Venice. I love the rugged and robust air they give that beautiful, otherwise ethereal, city.

PS I had a great time using the colored pens I took (see previous post!) I have more sketches and will process and scan them in stolen moments from my big jobs. Ciao, buddies!