Showing posts with label chatsworth cranberry festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chatsworth cranberry festival. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

2012 Chatsworth Cranberry Festival


The 2012 Cranberry Festival Booklet Cover
and three inside pages are done!! YAY!!!

I decided to stay with the flat tire painting this year,
but finished the other one with the couple too.
(That'll be backup for next year.)


Here's a sneak peek . . . 
Each year I add something fun to the book.
Designing a crossword puzzle was a new one for me!

Do you ever get started on something and have second
thoughts, wondering where you get these bright ideas?

It was a little scary at first. I never do crosswords myself.
Keeping it simple, the challenge was met
and it actually ended up being fun!

This new JD image is now available here on iStock.

Got any Jersey Devil stories?
I'd love to come up with a special theme for next year!
It'll be the 30th Annual festival.

(Please Send me your ideas.)
Here's my new ad for this year's book, using
one of my best selling images on iStockphoto.
What do you think?

It just seemed natural to share these pages here.
Most of these were posted this summer as drawings.
Sometimes it's nice to see how images evolve
and a variety of ways they might be used.

X ♥ O


As always, your comments are most appreciated!

P.S. Be sure to go to my other blog and see how

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Thinking of Fall, White Horses and the Jersey Devil


Today I've been working on this year's Cranberry Festival Program Book. I've been doing the cover for about ten years and it always features the Jersey Devil. Since the festival is a fund raiser for the restoration of the White Horse Inn, this year I'm featuring the White Horse again. Here's one of the many sketches that are floating around the studio. 

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

2009 Cranberry Festival Artwork


These pencil drawings of the Jersey Devil and the White Horse Inn were traced onto watercolor paper and are ready for color. Every year I do one large piece and two or three smaller watercolor originals. These are most likely already sold to my eager Jersey Devil art collectors.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Jersey Devil and The White Horse Inn


Every year for the past seven, I have created a Jersey Devil cover art for the Chatsworth Cranberry Festival. The summer has flown by and now it's time to start thinking of the fall and the good ole' JD. I like to get things done for the festival by Sept. 1st, so this week it will be my priority. Last summer, I also did a "hidden pictures " contest based on the cover art that was a big hit. Keep tuned for progress on this project throughout the week. Here is my preliminary "concept drawing". It's not very pretty, technically speaking, but I am very excited about this theme because the festival's proceeds go to restoring this Pine Barren town's icon, "The White Horse Inn".