This holiday season I have been selected to take part in the New York Academy of Art
Alumni Association Holiday 2007 Exhibition. The small painting above, along with another, will be on display at Merge 360 through December 23rd.
The timing of this illustration was uncanny. This fun story story was about Blackberry etiquette, for Las Vegas Life magazine. I had just become a proud iPhone owner a few days before receiving the job, and I was very much under the influence of the glowing little computer in my pocket. Having never had any kind of Blackberry-like device, it took a little getting used to the idea that I was so connected all of a sudden. As chance would have it, I received the email for this job on my shiny new gadget, and was able to reply and accept the assignment immediately. This was all while stuck in traffic on the F.D.R. (though I suppose this is a violation not just of etiquette but several laws as well).
It's fair to say I have been gushing about this thing for weeks now, but it's worth noting that the iPhone isn't just helpful in GETTING the jobs, but also in executing them. The camera makes quick reference shots very easy, and the screen is big enough to hold in your hand while you draw...much better than running over to the computer, importing the image, printing it out, etc. And having a hand-held Google image search in your hand is only a good thing for the busy illustrator! One of the first things I did was load up all of my illustrations form my website into the photo viewing app, and now I have a bright, crisp, flickable, pinchable, zoomable portfolio of my work with me wherever I go. Sweet!
Now if it only had a drawing program...
(Click on the image for a larger version)
Comments (3) - Link to this post
New artwork for a cd +booklet I am working on designing for the band "Smile Pretty Mysery". Check em out. They are really good.
(To get the textures, I gouached some pieces of trace paper, cut them out into fun 'lil shapes, scanned them in and placed them in my friend, illustrator CS3.)
Comments (3) - Link to this postFor the music I used mainly the fragments themselves-bubble wrap, plastic bags, etc,- plus some traditional instruments.
Comments (2) - Link to this post
caught that decisive moment of a goose bobbing down for food. the impression of its head has created a bowl shape in the water.
Here's some sample crops taken from the giant image that's going to form the main part of my show here in sunny Manchester.
I'm really hoping people are going to look at it and make up their own little stories about what the hell these characters are up to and how they relate to each other. Also, a lovely chap from the BBC interviewed me about the upcoming show last week, you can read it here..
This is Kinkaku-ji, otherwise known as The Golden Pavilion, in Kyoto, Japan.
Hi, my name is Stuart Kolakovic and I'm a fledgling illustrator from the Midlands (home to Black Sabbath and industrial pollution) in the U.K. I've kindly been invited as a guest artist here on invisibleman for the next month, so I'm pretty stoked. This here is a flyer for my first solo show here in Manchester (home to The Smiths and industrial pollution) that opens this December. It's getting pretty hectic so close to the opening, and I'm still doing work for it! The main "piece" for the exhibition is going to be one long drawing that wraps around the back wall of the gallery space- not a comic strip as such, more of a panoramic illustration of a year in the life of a fictional eastern european village set somewhere in the early 20th century. This is basically me being really self indulgent after doing one too many bland illustration jobs.
Third in a series of fed-chairman Ben Bernanke drawings for the Wall Street Journal Online. Below is one of the quick sketches which precede the final illo.
This image, from our Kaaterskill High Peak hike, depicts another view from Hurricane Ledge. This time we're looking south west towards the range of mountains that create the Devil's Path hiking trail. Click on the image above to see a larger view and read the extended entry to see the graphite sketch prior to adding watercolor.
Here's a bunch of drawings that I had fun doing for a new client, Read Magazine (published by Reader's Digest). The story, titled "Twist of Fate" by Steven Frank is about a teenage girl that ends up spending a weekend in the library's rare books room reading a dusty old first edition of Dickens' "Oliver Twist", to avoid flunking a class. She snoozes off and finds herself magically transported into the story, and interacting with all of the characters. The only way home is to write herself out of the story, Dickens himself tells her. The sequence of the drawings is clockwise from the top left image.
Click on the image for a larger version.
Comments (2) - Link to this post
"Merry Second-To-Last Christmas" is written on the inside of the card above. It's fun illustrating for the likes of The Onion. Both Christmas cards can be bought here.
I can imagine the kid crying and breaking crayons.
This was taken last week from a bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo. I've seen a lot of rare views of mountains this year.
Found this polaroid on the branch of a tree in Harlem. Cheered me right up.
Comments (1) - Link to this post
Several weeks ago I began taking a lithography class at the Manhattan Graphics Center. This image is my first lithograph ever. I am pleased with it. I consider it an experiment in which I got to know the materials, the crayons, the pencils, the metal plates involved with the process. My next experiment? Liquid Tusche.
Comments (1) - Link to this post
The story for this month's Soapbox in Publisher's Weekly was a pretty fascinating one. Ben Cheever (son of John Cheever) writes about two seemingly unrelated topics: running and seeking the truth. Yet they come together in a most interesting way in his life.
Having just written a book about running ("Strides"), Cheever talks about how in his family of runners, running together lead to moments of surprising honesty because "the brain doesn't get enough oxygen to support a falsehood".
I was struck by the mention of his family's deepest secret, his father's bisexuality (thus the closet imagery) which lead to the idea for the illustration.
You can see more of my work for Publisher's Weekly here.
| 11/26 Images from Never Been |
| 11/23 Kinkaku-ji |
| 11/21 Never Been |
| 11/20 Bernanke the Boatswain |
| 11/20 Let us make merry |
| 11/19 The Devil's Path |
| 11/15 Read Magazine: Twist of Fate |
| 11/10 Christmas cards for The Onion |
| 11/09 Mt. Fuji |
| 11/08 Found Photograph |
  |  
|
 
|
 
|
 
|
 
|
Subscribe to our Feed