I'll add to this post in the morning... but for now, here's the illustration.
Morning edit:
The illustration accompanies an article about Ava Chin, author of Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal
Here is the article
Here is the book: Eating Wildly by Ava Chin at Amazon
Or at Powells
Some scratchy, sketchy messing around. #bear
Two St. Joseph of Carondelet nuns with roughly parallel "career" paths at their 50 and 60 year anniversaries. No habits (not used by these nuns) and portraits really aren't my thing, so I took a simple approach.
Got these from the art director a few days ago... I always love seeing what the AD does with illustrations + type design + composition.
For an article about media merger contention titled: "Fox, Time Warner Prepare to Make Their Cases", it seemed obvious (after I thought of it) to use a comic style dot screen (Roy Lichtenstein!!) approach for a fox and a certain blue bird engaging in a playground game of one-upmanship.
Did this in July for an article about a San Diego man approaching his 100th birthday, who operated large equipment for his weekday job and spent his weekends as Cantor in his synagogue. It was a challenge to illustrate this. I'm pretty happy with this solution.
For the annual Senior Survey in July's Retirement Advisor, four full page illustrations.
Seniors may experience an income drop off when a partner dies
Keeping your money/finances healthy
The various vehicles (products) to offer your clients on the road to retirement
5 ways to market effectively to seniors (communicate, online presence, senior friendly offices and surroundings; be creative about how you reach out)
I spent part of the day printing out fine art 13 x 19 copies of this (sending two of them out to buyers this week). Bad day for women. Bad day for our country, really. Besides being grossly unfair to women and downright misogynistic, a loophole was created that a lot of companies will be using to keep their costs down. Because RELIGION!
