Monday, June 15, 2009

This blog is NOT for family pictures... I repeat...





When I started up this blog, I was determined that its primary (only) focus was going to be my website and my art. However, over the past week or so, I find myself consumed with something other than my day job or my website. Late last week, our first child made her way into the world. My pregnancy has been both physically and emotionally difficult, but she was worth every minute of it! For those of you who ended up waiting slightly longer for your posters over the past few months... here's your reason! :)

So, this time around, there won't be any art to post - only a short timeline of the hours leading up to our daughter's birth.

TOP PANEL - 24hrs to go. My husband, Lewis, and I head out to the park with our greyhounds for one last pre-baby stroll and some ice cream.

MIDDLE PANEL - 2.5 hrs to go. My hospital bag is packed and we are headed to the hospital for my scheduled c-section. Here I am telling my boy Jack to behave.

BOTTOM PANEL - Our little girl, Naomi Grace Kavanagh, was born at 1:43pm on Thursday, June 11, 2009. She weighed in at 7 lbs, 4oz and she is absolutely lovely. Her father is doomed!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Brewsters!







In addition to putting together custom work, I also create what I call semi-custom posters. These are based on bar posters that I originally created for my own enjoyment. Here, the color of the dog and text on the poster is changed out to reflect your own dog. The result is a less expensive product that (usually) takes considerably less time to put together.

Above, Kipper has been incorporated into an existing poster template to create Brewsters!

Monday, June 8, 2009

Farm Poster: 80 Greyt Acres!



These clients live out on a farm with several adopted greyhounds, horses and donkeys. As they continued to send me images throughout the process, I became more and more jealous! The lifestyle sounds like a dream. Anyway, here's last file that went off to the printers!

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Farm Poster: Part 6







Finishing the body of the horse below (Sunny) became a little bit of an issue. This little guy (Poncho) was much easier for me to put together in Illustrator. Go figure.