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
Illustration Friday: Focused
January 29th, 2010Dance Lesson
January 25th, 2010Sneak 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, 2010Minnesota Made, O’Shaughnessy at St.Thomas
January 16th, 2010Later this month I will have a piece on exhibit along with twenty other members of the MN Children Book Illustration Guild.
Illustration Friday – Confined
January 8th, 2010Spec Illustration
December 14th, 2009Illustration Friday, Flying
October 10th, 2009Illustration Friday, Germs
October 7th, 2009
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, 2009Patterns 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”, said the spider to the fly.









