The Northampton Queen

Posted on | April 12, 2010 | No Comments

Been too quiet on the illustration front lately. I’ve felt for a while now that there’s a breakthrough somewhere waiting to be found. If only I could be more open, diligent, exploratory, crazy, nosy, crafty, smarter, dumber, whatever, blah, blah, blah… Believe it or not, I’ve had this feeling just about since signing on with my agent, over three years ago! Of course at first I was just trying to get the hang of working with commercial clients as an illustrator, but then it turned towards how to work with my art in a more commercial way, yet still be happy with both the process and the result. Oh yeah, and remain true to my(so-called)self… exhausting!

Since returning home to Halifax I’ve been busy developing a new business with my lovely partners Geoff & Anne (see the blog at VTCentral) and art has had to take an increasingly back seat to everything else. Until I came down with Pneumonia and everything took a back seat to that for a couple of weeks. Threw production schedules way off, but one night at 3AM an image snuck up and wacked me upside the head. Just when things looked darkest — and not just ’cause of the hour — that breakthrough I’ve been waiting, searching, hoping for!

And here’s a first shy little step towards that vision. It will probably take a few to stop resetting to default art position (namely automatically redoing what I’ve been doing for the past five years), but it’s a step. One little step. Next I’ll try a few studies to get the foreground/background thing clearer, but for the next day or two I’m happy with this.

In the wake of early-mid 20th Century Art Deco travel posters

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