Applefest 2010 Final, Crouse College

Here's the final image for this year's poster. I finished it a few weeks ago, and the posters are already up! Later if I can get my hands on it I'll post a copy here. I'll also be running an art booth at the festival, where I'll be selling some drawings of buildings around town, as well as a few other paintings.

In addition, I was recently asked to do a "portrait" of the main building of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, my alma mater (I feel so old being able to say that!). I've posted that here too. It was really great being able to work for SU -- and to leave my own permanent mark on the school!

Next time: that TCNJ stuff. Also, some personal work. Until then, enjoy!

Obama

Midterm woes -- November isn't looking to be a very good month for the President. And the recent additional economic proposals almost certainly aren't going to get passed before then. Not a fantastic time to be a Democrat.

AppleFest Progress

So I was going to post the civil war stuff today, but since I just finished the final drawing for Applefest this afternoon, I figured I'd show that instead. I've been talking about it here for months, after all. The premise this year is a 1920s-ish tea party. I wanted to move forward from last year while still making sure a lot of the feeling stayed the same. I also wanted to draw adults this year. I've wanted to do an image like this for quite a while, and so I kind of worked it into the assignment. I had a lot of fun with this drawing, so it took a little longer than usual.

I'll post with more soon. The final painting should be finished sometime in the next week, but I'm still behind on posting from other projects. Stay tuned!

Business

Sorry I've been remiss in my posting! I've been VERY busy these last few months. I'll stagger some posts and updates over a few days, because blogger makes a 5 image limit, and to make things more exciting.

Above: More spots for Rutgers (I have a double page spread of these things in the September issue, hitting the press in, well, September.) and also more spot work for FDU, which I also think is for the September issue but I am not entirely sure.

Tomorrow: TCNJ stuff, finished (for the Seeeeeeeptember issue!) and the then Applefest progress. I've been promising this for a while, and I'm actually in the middle of it right now. This year is going to be great! It's a 1920s apple tea party!

The Graduate

Spot for Rutgers Magazine. The article was a small advice column for recent graduates going home to bleak job prospects and, well, their parents. Fun!

Recent goings-on...

Spots and small amounts of progress work for a few articles in FDU's alumni magazine. There's a third on the way -- my computer just returned from the computer doctor's office and so I lost a few days.

To come:
- Editorial piece for Rutgers Magazine -- a 1/8 page spot. Final and process work to come sometime in the next few days.
- More work on Applefest 2010. I have a lot of process work already. I think there will be a final drawing next week.
- Editorial piece for the Marathon Group on the civil war. Also incredibly exciting. Details and process work to come.

A Scanner Danny, Rahmbo

My new scanner came in the mail the other day. I am officially up and running now. The above drawing is a little dated -- it was produced during the flurry of press on the White House Chief of Staff while passing Health Care Reform was looking bleak.

Things in progress:
- AppleFest 2010
- Spots for FDU Magazine
- A personal piece about eating disorders.

More posts to come soon!