Most of the trees around are now leafless. Time always feels to me that it accelerates, or at least the passage of time becomes more apparent, when the leaves are falling. But now that the trees are bare, everything slows down again. Except for the dark. That comes quicker.
Illustration designed originally for the Walnut Street, PA lululemon Athletica store and the Union Square lululemon Athletica store in New York, NY / instore (behind cash) artwork.
Final artwork here: http://kirstiwakelin.com/projects/illustration/71
Illustration designed originally for the Walnut Street, PA lululemon Athletica store and the Union Square lululemon Athletica store in New York, NY / instore (behind cash) artwork.
Final artwork here: http://kirstiwakelin.com/projects/illustration/71
This is actually new old work from back in May, but I only recently got a chance to get photos of it when I was in Calgary for an event. These are photos of lululemon athletica’s Chinook Centre storefront. I illustrated the bison (my drawings were then cut out of layers of wood by the fabricator). This was the first time I saw them in 3D. They’re pretty big in person. More images, including the original drawings that were the basis for the final wooden artwork, are now up on my illustration portfolio.
I’ve updated my illustration portfolio with new piece of artwork I completed for lululemon in the summer. This 3 panel piece, called Air & Water, went to the new lululemon athletica store in SoHo, New York.
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UPDATE: apparently, during store renovations, this piece was destroyed in a flood so it’ll be replaced by a reprint on canvas.
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This past week I was in Calgary photographing an outdoor event for Resolve Design who was part of a team that put together a digital graffiti and animation show that was projected on the side of a building. The event hosted by CMLC and the Cantos Music Foundation was to celebrate the King Edward Hotel’s planned renovations and new life. (fyi-that link has music)
We’ll be putting together a little film of some of the hightlights, but for now, I have just have a few photographs.
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We invited local graffiti artist The Kid Belo to drawn on the building as well:
At the end of the night, I did a little bit of drawing too:
I finally got a chance to visit some of my recently installed work and get some photos – this is the Culture Craze retail kiosk in Park Royal Mall, West Vancouver.
The kiosk was designed by Waddell and Conder and the fabrication was by 3 Dimensional Services.
The graphics continue up over the top of the cabinet (where the squid’s tentacles are wrapped around the branches of the tree).
(This is what this and this (but without the colour) was for.)
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This is the frigate bird/octopus rough I blogged earlier, now at a slightly later stage of development. It has now progressed beyond this to final inking and the Dreaded and Most Horrible stage of scanning & piecing together – a stage that involves much cursing. I’m not sure if it’s a quirk of my scanner or not, but the pixel ratio tends to differ between images scanned upside down vs rotated right side up- which makes for incredible annoyances when trying to put the drawing together out of numerous scans. In addition to this, cropping the scan area in-scanner results in all sorts of alignment impossibilities with the other scans. Of course, one only remembers these things after one has scanned 3 pieces of art X 5 pieces each @ 800dpi and then spent an hour trying to make two measly sections match up. (And if none of this makes any sense at all, I’m not surprised – after 13 hours of work today, all I’ve got left is brain pudding.)
This little fish is a small piece from an illustration I’m working on.
Yet another work in progress. Moving on from the botanical illustration of last week, this one is marine-themed and includes one of my favourite members of the mollusk class – the octopus. It’s been a cephalopod-heavy fall with the piece that included a Humboldt Squid, completed a few weeks ago.
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