Illustration Friday: Focused

January 29th, 2010

Close up of a girl focused on fireflies in a jar. I invite you to visit the exhibit “Minnesota Made” at O’Shaughnessy Educational Center http://www.stthomas.edu/arthistory/exhibitions/ , runs until near the end of February. There you can view the whole of this piece, “Northern Lights” along with the works of many other talented artists from the Children’s Book Illustrator Guild. If you are not able to make the trip the complete image of “Northern Lights” can be found in my illustration gallery. http://www.linnelldesign.com/gallery/illustrations

Dance Lesson

January 25th, 2010

Sneak peek of a little horse having a dance lesson. He was created in Photoshop for a show this spring at the Open Book in Minneapolis. He will be the focus of a larger composition. I wanted to get a quick start before I begin a web development course at a local Community College. When I’m done filling my brain with HTML and coding for Flash I’ll get back to this guy. He will need a background and all of his dance instructors will have to wait a few weeks to become more then sketches.

Illutration Friday, Wilderness

January 18th, 2010

Marshmallows browned over a fire in the wilderness, yum.

Minnesota Made, O’Shaughnessy at St.Thomas

January 16th, 2010



Later this month I will have a piece on exhibit along with twenty other members of the MN Children Book Illustration Guild.

“Minnesota Made : Through the Eyes of the Children’s Book Illustrators Guild of Minnesota” will be opening up on January 22, 2010 at the O’Shaughnessy Educational Center Lobby Gallery at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. An artist reception will be held on January 24 from 2-4pm. I look forward to seeing you there! Here is all of the information for the show!
“Minnesota Made”
O’Shaughnessy Educational Center Lobby Gallery
University of St. Thomas
2115 Summit Ave
St. Paul, MN 55105
651-962-5560
www.stthomas.edu/arthistory/exhibitions

Illustration Friday – Confined

January 8th, 2010

Poor hound confined to the length of a rope. Illustration was inked with Adobe Illustrator and colored in Photoshop.

Spec Illustration

December 14th, 2009

A few quick spec illustrations of cartoon teens created in Illustrator.

Illustration Friday, Flying

October 10th, 2009

Pre-school mural of flying balloons with kids and pet passangers. This is a photo of one corner of a room I painted for a church in Minnesota.

Illustration Friday, Germs

October 7th, 2009

Germ

If germs were this big we would all try to avoid them and sneeze or cough into a tissue to protect others from germs.

Illustration Friday, Pattern

September 28th, 2009

Patterns in nature are found in plants, foliage and animals creating an infinite variety of patterns. This design was inspired by the art of Ernst Haeckel. Haeckel was a scientist and accomplished artist. Sketchpads and watercolors accompanied his microscope wherever he traveled. His field study drawings of deep-sea vegetation, aquatic creatures, frogs, birds, and higher animals were publication in 1904. His illustrations are beautiful and idealize nature, and may have influenced the Art Nouveau movement. His scientific theories were sometimes flawed and later misused but his art is wonderful.

“Fractal geometry will make you see everything differently. There is danger in reading further. You risk the loss of your childhood vision of clouds, forests, flowers, galaxies, leaves, feathers, rocks, mountains, torrents of water, carpets, bricks, and much else besides. Never again will your interpretation of these things be quite the same.”
—Michael F. Barnsley, author of Fractals Everywhere.

Illustration Friday: Welcome

September 16th, 2009

welcome

“Welcome”, said the spider to the fly.