November 29 – December 2 (“Black Friday” – “Cyber Monday”) head over to the shop to save on some prints!
18″ x 24″ prints (normally listed for $40) will be $30 for one and $50 for two!
11″ x 17″ prints (normally listed for $20) will be $15 for one and $25 for two!
Applies to all prints, and everything I’ve got is currently in stock! Knock out some Christmas shopping with some original art prints!
Got a couple things up on a new ETSY shop! Will still primarily use my web shop, but I realized it was time to jump into the ETSY universe. Here’s why:
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My mom & dad gave us infinite creative license on our rooms growing up.
My brother and I decked our walls (entirely) with posters, prints, magazine/newspaper cut ups, packaging, anything we could find in print, really. Any remaining space was covered in sharpie — people’s handprints, jokes, stories, drawings, whatever. The ceiling even had giant targets drawn on it for a beanbag throwing game called “Beach Leech”.
Lindsey kept hers reasonable. Simple and a soft pink mostly I think? Hard to recall.
Lily’s was an entirely other definition of bonkers. Lime green and hot pink striped walls with an accent color of “zebra”. No joke — everything in the room was lime, pink, or zebra. It was quite a spectacle.
Anyway, as we all moved out, the rooms got an upgrade. Well, Lily’s the last to officially bounce, so when my mother recently redid her room and hung some very elegant works of art around, I had to wonder where she found ’em.
“All from ETSY.” Just a couple quick keyword searches and she found the exact type of pieces she was looking for. Well, if there’s a one-stop shop where folks are finding the right art for their walls, I figure I need to be there.
So, ETSY. Stay tuned at LeviWatsonArt.
Rain didn’t make the cut. Aimed for that blurry/foggy feeling, but just ended up too messy for me this time.
everything as teacher journal
colored pencil, brush pen, computer, 2013.
client: sacredwithin.us
Landslide connected me with Lisa Baker after building her a fantastic website to house her marvelous art over at sacredwithin.us. Lisa planned to create a journal to encourage individuals and groups to explore their emotions (both ‘good’ and ‘bad’) as messengers. To discover what emotions might be capable of revealing about life.
Long story short — We pitched a few ideas back and forth and decided to run with an idea stemming around the use of environments to extract emotions.
But after working through the journal you see pictured, Lisa decided she would prefer a journal based around her art and brand for various reasons. We plucked a few elements from this one for the new journal now titled, A Deeper Knowing and sent it to print.
These pages and elements may not ever find their way to print but they paved the way for the journal Lisa hoped for based around her beautiful painting, Inside of You. Plus they brought an opportunity to combine Prismacolor pencils and a Kuretake brush pen!
#tbt to college afternoons spent listening to great music and trying to recreate brilliant album art.
These are pen drawings of the 2005 album art reissues of Silver and Gold, the first two Starflyer full-lengths & fan favorites. (Doesn’t get any better than Old and The Changing of the Guard for me. …and Talking Voice. …and maybe My Island. …and…) Followed with pen recreations of Joy Electric’s 2007 album The Otherly Opus, which is absolute magic.
Listen to Starflyer 59 and Joy Electric and view the designs & illustrations of Invisible Creature if you don’t regularly already. (And standby to listen to Ronnie’s new venture, Said Fantasy early next year.)
Here’s the original art designed by Invisible Creature:
Oh yeah, Invisible Creature just released Stack and Scare this week — four sets of stackable blocks for bizarre creature building madness. Planning to pick up a set for Adelaide’s first Christmas. Here — watch a quick video to see how fun these are.
gurus live audio tour
computer, 2013
Gurus of Tech is in the midst of a short mini-tour for audio folks. It’s hosted by my friend Lee Fields (FOH for Lincoln Brewster, Audio Ninja for Mankin Media) on the new SSL Live console and hits Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and Nashville. I had the privilege to play art director and brand the event as the “LIVE AUDIO” Tour.
background
Gurus is a free conference (or in this case, a workshop) focused on connecting, teaching, and inspiring anyone working in a technical role at a church. A Gurus event (and therefore the brand itself) is typically casual, cool, and obviously very tech-oriented. This tour being a smaller, more experimental event than the big annual experience brought an opportunity to take that vibe even further.
identity
We identified a few key elements we wanted the brand of this tour to represent —
visuals
I selected out-of-focus shots of the SSL Live for background. They set the tone for audio world and the color scheme for the rest of the visuals. Each ‘logo’ or ‘icon’ is housed in an increasingly opaque circle to parallel the colors and button shapes on the console. A negative space outline of the SSL Live amps up the main logo and easily recognizable state silhouettes highlight each tour stop.
the name
Finally, the name. “Live Audio” serves strongly as both a mantra and a definition of this tour. Playing off “live” as in ‘mixing audio live’ as it’s created vs. “live” as in ‘to live your life’ kinda thing. Hopefully you instantly know the event is about mixing live audio and living in audio world. Plus, it’s easy to rally behind. #liveaudio!
promotion
Implemented everything into a variety of web and print promo materials.
Lanyards:
Draft of a postcard (we didn’t end up using because email promo got the job done!):
And one more digital signage image:
And finally a landing site to house it all at www.gurusoftech.com/liveaudio/.
Atlanta and the first Chicago dates have already sold out! One more date in Chicago and then on to Dallas and Nashville. #liveaudio. Check it.
I like most of the flat design trend over the last several years, and I gotta say – It’s quite fun to make.
Thanks to Seek First Productions on this one. They had a specific direction in mind, asked me to storyboard and create the visual elements (minus the flowers), and then brought it all to life via motion graphic animation.
Inspired by cluttered closets and garbage garages everywhere.
Here’s the Nashville-themed pallet-wood paintings available for purchase at the upcoming Made In Nashville show this weekend! Finishing up some nature-themed paintings as well that I’ll have with me at the event.
So, Centennial Park. Event Pavilion. This Saturday, September 14th, 2013. 11am – 5pm. Local music, food, beer, arts, & crafts. Come hang out!
Printed in an initial run of 25 on high-quality paper sized at 18″x24″. Signed and hand-numbered in a 1″ white border for framing.
Originally painted with oil on canvas with a black border.
Dreams don’t have to be dependent on opportunity. Let your mind wander and the ideas keep spinning…
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Printed in an initial run of 25 on high-quality #100 stock paper sized at 11×17. Signed and numbered on the back this time. Originally drawn with pencil.
Navigate the caves with a stray beam of light.
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