Illustration for laser surgery article

My line art image of a hand and face was used by Joan Barrow at Connecticut Magazine to enhance a Health story about the advances in laser surgery.  Not only are lasers useful for vital surgical procedures but also for making our slightest flaws disappear without damage to surrounding tissue.  A magic tool for health and beauty!  Here’s how the art looks on the page in the current February 2012 issue!  Sorry, I don’t have a link to the whole story which is hard to read here….

"Talking to Addison" by Jenny Colgen-Warner Books

Have a LOVE-ly day to all my online friends and family.  This image was a book jacket illustration I did for a comic novel about a young London woman with a crush on her flat mate.  He was online ALL the time making it almost  impossible to get his attention.

Cross Knee Sumi - Brush & Ink on Rives BFK tan paper

This month I’ll have some unframed sumi paintings available at the Madison Art Collective including 4 half sheet figure paintings on Rives BFK tan paper.    I’ll also have some animal sumi paintings including horses, birds, fish and a crab.

Running Horse - Sumi on rice paper

There’s a reception Saturday Feb 4 from 2-5:00 pm at 2703 E Madison Street in Seattle for the featured oil painter, Jeanne Edwards, and the jewelry designer, Heather Kraft.  Come by if you can or anytime you are near the Madison Valley neighborhood.  Two of my close artist friends also have stunning work on display…. Pat Clayton with her oil landscapes, and Ellen Rutledge with her unique etchings with chine colle & collage

Are you looking for ways to spread cheer for the holidays?  Check out my new portfolio of published seasonal cards on this web site…

www.sandyhaight.com/portfolios/greeting-cards

When you  click on a thumbnail to enlarge the image, you’ll see the caption written inside that card.  Some sentiments are heartfelt, some whimsical with others written by poet Gary Wood.

The designs here are published as 5” x 7” cards with deluxe envelopes by Emery Burton Fine Cards.

Ho Ho Ho!

Sandy Claus

Martha Geoghegan’s Mexican cat:

Nadia Erdolan’s doorway painting:

Two paintings by Lee Ready:

Monica Sanchez’s children’s book art:

Jingwen Yu’s Mardi Gras mystery:

I was asked by Elizabeth Myhr, product development and program manager for Amanda DuBois, to develop the icon portion of a logo for their new product. The program consist of a series of cloud-based, expert videos that help women negotiate divorce through an empowering life transition as they move into the next stages of their lives. I worked with my friend and designer Mitch Albala, who chose the lettering and colors.  Of the many ideas we explored, this was my favorite choice, because it lent a sense of hope and renewal to what is otherwise a difficult and sad situation.  I tried symbols of open arms, birds in flight, spirals and stylized letters from the word Divorganize. The circle-spiral symbolizes a wedding band, broken, but also open ended.

Here’s a sample of a DVD case design showing the logo in use and a great picture of Amanda.

It’s the day after a horrible accident where my son was hit by a car breaking his perfect front teeth. Following an evening in the ER and an afternoon at the dentist, I found myself showing this painting to my watercolor students.  I’d brought it to discuss the usefulness of color comps to explore background color options before starting to paint, as I’d saved the studies. Then the tooth connection clicked! Remember when it was exciting to lose your teeth?  It’s no fun when you are 27. May the tooth fairy bring you a generous treat, Adrien. That’s her in the window of the house across the street, witnessing the loss of your tooth.  The painting was part of a proposal for a children’s book by Cooper Edens.

Sandy Haight is a fine artist who designed the sumi logo for this site. I first saw her art in a local gallery and immediately contacted her about creating a t-shirt. My logo above was the first image she sent me. I opened the file and to my pleasant surprise discovered that she drew my ass:) I had no need to look any further. “She” was the one. Sandy is a dream to work/create with and has a beautiful gift for the sensuality of nature and art.

This sumi-e figure was created for a show at ArtEast Gallery in Issaquah, WA where artists were invited to draw the figure on 1/2 sheets of tan Rives BFK paper to create a unified figure show titled Drawing on Observation.  I went to a life drawing session with my biggest sumi brushes and a stack of the sturdy paper and had some fun results, seen here.

Mud Puddle Fitness

Sandy, The wonderful logo helps people feel assured that I am a legitimate business! The Arthritis Foundation is letting me sponsor myself for some truly wonderful training – which is pretty rare for them. Yesterday, I handed my card to a Physical Therapist and she immediately saw me as a colleague!
Thank you, thank you!

Follow here as I develop the project from concept to completion.

First sketch and first revision:

We realized when the image was flipped, we could create the client’s S.M. initials in the feathers of the wings.

Solo torso options:

1.  vector                           2.  vector                    3.  sketch from sumi painting

Torso grouping options:

1.  From solo above      2.  Three different bodies       3.  Abstraction-profiles only

Buyout – Revised first sketch proceeds to finish

My concept of the Winged Victory statue art was approved and I won the contract to refine the image further for use as a logo. I explored several painting techniques from loose and rough to tight and refined and even vector. The client also wanted to consider adding a head or part of one to reflect the part of her work on faces. Here are some of those renderings.

Black ink brush line       Ink line /Watercolor tone         Bold Brush               Sumi ink with tone

Final selected icon – Watercolor toned line on Arches cold press paper

From the design blog of Heather LaFleur about this process.

Visit these links for more background story:

http://heatherlafleur.blogspot.com/2011/01/nip-tuck.html

and

http://heatherlafleur.blogspot.com/2011/04/go-with-flownip-ii.html