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 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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The other afternoon I cut some flowers in half and took photos of them as reference for a current project.
Here’s a little sneak peek of some of the bits and pieces that went into a piece of work I delivered yesterday. The final illustration is off to print very soon. It’ll then become a graphic element on a piece of cabinetry and live out its little black and white life in a retail environment. ETA on that and photos of the final piece is end of the month.
UPDATE: I’ve posted photos of the final artwork here.
This is a coloured version of a teeny tiny piece of a currently-underway illustration job.
Once the paint is dry the next step will be rubbing off the little bodies of insects that committed suicide in the wet paint. It’s like the La Brea tar pits on a micro scale. Kind of fitting as the final illustration is insect inspired.
A couple of months ago I did some work to hang in lululemon athletica’s Bethesda Row store. The piece has been shipped and installed so I’ve put a couple of images of it up in my illustration portfolio. The illustration was a lot of fun to put together. It involved creating reams of ink blots, a lot of scanning and a lot of piecing things together digitally. And finally, I painted over the printed canvas.
The illustration is meant to be a creative, colourful version of their manifesto. It is also in use as hoarding for a store (or stores) under construction. (It’s currently in use at the Soho, NY location.)
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I don’t have photos yet of the piece hung at the current location, but I’ll post them when I do.
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