Month: July 2018

7/25/18

Vote Now! Announcing the GTS Semi-finalists’ work for assignment #2

Our Global Talent Search is in full swing. It’s an incredibly exciting time over here at the Studio. Who will be our next artist?

The 50 Semi-Finalists were announced two weeks ago and then were given my Assignment #2 to challenge them further. They’ve just finished the assignment, and now we’d love you to vote on your choices.

At the same time, our esteemed panel of VIP judges will go in and privately select their top five favorites.

The gallery closes for voting at 9am PDT / 12 noon EDT / 5pm BST on Monday, July 30th.

The assignment was to create a graphic novel page around two characters and some odd vintage items (a riverboat cruise postcard, a laundry matchbook, etc.)

How to vote:

Go to the gallery, click the magnifying glass on the image(s) you’d like to vote for, and click the “VOTE” button underneath the image. Each person who votes will be able to submit 5 votes.

I hope you enjoyed the show! Want great art for you project? Don’t hesitate to contact us. We’d be delighted to hear from you for any of your art needs. Susan and Joanne are standing by!

Lilla

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7/18/18

See my new Helen Dardik dress! And new projects by our artists.

We do have our share of fun around here; we enjoy a crafter-noon every so often. Here I am in the dress I sewed using a print of Helen Dardik‘s.

Here’s how it went down: our artists send us their personal pieces as they create them so that we can show them to our lovely clients, and when Helen sent us this print, I immediately wanted it for a dress, and so I asked her if I could get the fabric made on Spoonflower. The rest is history.

The necklace is by Helen Dardik for Les Editions Auzou.

Those lanterns way in the back are by Helen Dardik for BlueQ. (I’d give you the link but they aren’t available anymore. They were made a long time ago.)

Here are Flora Waycott’s lovely line drawings in Flow Magazine’s new book, 50 Ways to Draw Your Ordinary Life.

Check out this spread showing Carolyn Gavin‘s work table in Flow Magazine’s new book, 50 Ways to Draw Your Ordinary Life.

Marenthe has a way of being magical and sweet at the same time. This was commissioned for a calendar for Amber Lotus.

This just in! Rebecca Jones‘ lovely paintings for magnetic puzzles Mudpuppy/Chronicle Books.

Want to keep up with our Global Talent Search? Follow the action on Instagram here.

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7/11/18

How I’ll pick my next artist for representation

Our Global Talent Search is in full swing, with over 1,400 artists participating! We’re reviewing the work just in from the first challenge and we’re narrowing down the selections to the 50 top images. It’s exciting, thought-provoking and riveting as we study each image and dig into plenty of websites. It’s how we pick our artists, and we’ve loved doing it since 2013. Read more about it here.

There are so many factors in selecting our next artist. In this first round, we study the entry plus, if we like what we see, we go on to view the artist’s website.

What do we look for? We look for a fairly large body of work in a consistent style. That doesn’t mean that everything in the portfolio should look the same; as a matter of fact, we don’t want to see that. A variety of color palettes, moods, and even media appeals to us as our client base has varied needs.

We look for strong drawing ability–in any style–and a body of work containing a rich variety of imagery. Can the artist draw lots of stuff? A plus is strong lettering and the ability to draw faces and the figure. And finally, do we feel that the style will pull work? Will our clients respond favorably? In a sense, we try to be mind-readers.

Stay tuned. Over the next several weeks, you’ll see our top 50 Semi-Finalists, our 6 Finalists, and then the Winner.