Recent Posts Tagged With 'Color'

• New Print up in Etsy: Speaking In Color

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 13:11 in Color, illustration, prints, the ward-o-matic shop

  I'm happy to report that there's a new print up in The Ward-O-Matic Shop!Called Speaking In Color, it features this wonderful little girl (possibly, maybe inspired by Ava?) spreading happiness to the world through her gifted tongue, speaking out agai...

• Good Halloween Fun

  Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 17:48 in Color, vintage, children's books, halloween, 1950's, janet lasalle

  I'm always a big fan of Halloween! However, the Jenkins household has now turned into the Den of Sickness. Ava was out of school for an entire week two weeks ago and now, both Andrea and Ezra have been hit with the same bug. It's only a matter of tim...

• Step-by-step: King of Putdowns

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 14:43 in Color, illustration, magazines, step-by-step

  Hi guys. Thought I'd enlighten your day by sharing with you a sort of step-by-step process of how I created the illustration I did for Guide Magazine, The King of Putdowns (see previous post). Since I didn't take screengrabs while I was working, I ca...

• King of Putdowns

  Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 02:22 in Color, illustration, magazines

  Recent illustration I did for an upcoming issue of Guide Magazine. That boy at the top of the playhouse likes to put his classmates down with snarky remarks and insults. It prompts the girl to pick up a pine cone and toss it at him.I'm very proud of ...

• See and Say by Antonio Frasconi

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 02:35 in books, Color, children's books, 1950's, woodcuts, midcentury

  See and Say by Antonio Frasconi. A Voyager Book. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., NY. 1955.Fantastic picture book featuring brilliant woodcuts by artist Antonio Frasconi. What's so cool about this book is the fact that it's in four languages, with th...

• My Goatee Weighs a Ton

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 14:04 in Color, illustration, goatee

  It really does.If you caught the reference here, you get a cookie....

• Mos Def

  Posted on Monday September 7th, 2009 at 03:01 in Color, illustration, hip-hop, Caricature

  I know it's weird for me to say this, considering that I illustrated an entire book featuring an Olympic celebrity, but caricature is not my forte. It takes me a long time to get to the point where I'm happy with capturing the essence of a particular...

• FTW! WTF?

  Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 01:07 in drawing, Color, illustration

  Just an idea I had hanging out in the confines of my brain. For the record, I had no idea what "FTW" meant until several months ago. And really, I thought it was just a funny way to say "WTF" but backwards. Oh, nevermind....

• Kretschmer Wheat Germ Recipes

  Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 13:59 in Color, illustration, cooking, vintage, 1970's

  More inspiration for you guys, this time from Kretschmer Wheat Germ, circa 1971. Even though it's dated a little later from what I normally post, the illustrations found in this little cookbooklet (yes, I made that word up) are fun, colorful and live...

• Hello sun!

  Posted on Monday April 27th, 2009 at 19:36 in Color, illustration

  Made this today. It's been sunshine-y lately and so I got inspired. Hello, sun. I want more of you, please. Thinking about selling this as a print on my Etsy. What say you, dear peoples? ...

• Step-by-step: Online Chatter

  Posted on Saturday February 14th, 2009 at 16:45 in Color, illustration, step-by-step

  Delayed! I was planning on a great big announcement about the children's book I illustrated, but now I'm having to go back and do revisions. Oh well. No problem. How about this: here's a step-by-step process of an illustration I did the other day. It...

• O hai thatz me

  Posted on Monday February 2nd, 2009 at 14:29 in Color, illustration, children's books, b-boy

  I don't, really. But wondering how many will comment, asking me if I do.Done entirely in Photoshop. Realizing that I need to work more off-the-cuff, on-the-spot, so I don't rely too much on the scanner.---------------------------------Okay, the big n...

• 'Twas the Day After Christmas

  Posted on Friday December 14th, 2007 at 16:18 in Color

  Oh, I know it's not after Christmas, but I couldn't wait that long to post this. Drew this for Tom at LAIKA. He makes a Christmas mix CD each year and asked me to illustrate it for this year. It took me a while to get the concept down, just the way I...