Ok I received this email from a satisfied client and want to share it..WE know how amazing our artists are.. but it is always SO nice to hear it from our clients!
"...AND I would like to rave once more about Our Man of Steele. Robert was the only artist's work that needed no revisions. (not counting the one lousy outline on the roof of the firehouse...big deal). Bing bang boom - he got the concept - and they are beautiful.
...Not to mention how he jumped in and rescued us, as other less intuitive artists fell by the wayside...;~) while still keeping to our time frame. What a guy, what a guy ~
He is great to work with."
Tickle Tap Apps
Introducing Tickle Tap Apps, a series of iPhone games for pre-schoolers that are both educational and fun! At the request my friends at zinc Roe, I came up with the art and the character design, while they made the magic happen (which to a layman like me is how iPhones operate). The Sound Shaker game is particularly cool. Click here to visit the website.
Wall Street Journal
I just finished this piece for the Wall Street Journal, delivered today, should appear tomorrow. What do they do if you blow the deadline? Very unusual job for me, but fun. It is photography and type, no painting involved really. Just retouching.
They wanted it to look like a tabloid on a bookcover, like the National Enquirer, or one of those. I was happy with it. And I got it on Tuesday evening and delivered Thursday morning. Fast for me.
They wanted it to look like a tabloid on a bookcover, like the National Enquirer, or one of those. I was happy with it. And I got it on Tuesday evening and delivered Thursday morning. Fast for me.
Museum Quality Art
When you are a museum quality artist, it is hard to keep your humility. It tends to go to your head. Recently we went to a show at the Fullerton Museum of "The 100 Worst Album Covers", and half way through, there it was, hanging there, the worst illustration I have ever done. The one that never goes away. The one that haunts me, repeatedly, every five years, since I did it back in 1980 or so. My Star Wars and Other Gallactic Funk, by Meco album cover!
I remember when the art director called, I rushed over to pick it up, and he only had a week. I normally needed two weeks in those days, but I took it anyway. When I got back to my studio, the phone was ringing, and the A.D. said he had just found out they only had three days. I told him I would bring it back because I knew I couldn't do it that quickly. But he reassured me, gave me $500 extra, and said he knew it would be great. I wasn't so sure. But I stayed up for three days, and got it done. I didn't sign it. When he arrived to pick up the art, he loved it and insisted that I sign it right on the front cover, right in the center, right where everyone could see. Right on the front cover, where it would laugh at me from the museum walls in 2009. Right where my son's girlfriend would find it in a thrift store and have me sign it all over again, as if the first time wasn't humiliating enough.
So, yes, I am now a museum quality artist, and I just wonder, what was I thinking back then?
I remember when the art director called, I rushed over to pick it up, and he only had a week. I normally needed two weeks in those days, but I took it anyway. When I got back to my studio, the phone was ringing, and the A.D. said he had just found out they only had three days. I told him I would bring it back because I knew I couldn't do it that quickly. But he reassured me, gave me $500 extra, and said he knew it would be great. I wasn't so sure. But I stayed up for three days, and got it done. I didn't sign it. When he arrived to pick up the art, he loved it and insisted that I sign it right on the front cover, right in the center, right where everyone could see. Right on the front cover, where it would laugh at me from the museum walls in 2009. Right where my son's girlfriend would find it in a thrift store and have me sign it all over again, as if the first time wasn't humiliating enough.
So, yes, I am now a museum quality artist, and I just wonder, what was I thinking back then?
Gate D43
I've finished another canvas. The subject was a photo I shot out the window of an airport while waiting for our flight. I developed my sketch from elements in my photo. The tarmac/concrete had subtle bands of tone. I worked up a pencil, and did a colour study in vector. Below are my preliminaries.
The Great Ashfield Pancaper - Gayle Kabaker's movie
Having fun expanding my creative horizons - I've been exploring film making and just love it. This 5 min. movie that I made with a lot of help won the Ashfield Film Festival's Grand Prize. I was going to hand letter the titles or something to get an illustrated hand in there - but it really didn't need it. But I did do my logo! Made it move too in Flash - you can see that on the motion page at L&S http://www.lindgrensmith.com/motion/kabaker/
Check it out! It's fun to see the youtube hits grow daily!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtXPiXbgJBk
Check it out! It's fun to see the youtube hits grow daily!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtXPiXbgJBk
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