I kind of like the spaghetti swirl of leaves in the foreground tree and am also partial to the big roundish stone or whatever which has dented the ground.
Yes, another lovely tree from Louisville. You know, I think that is the last time I set foot in Louisville, though I have driven through it since. When visiting my kids’ cousins there we always went to a certain barbeque joint, Mark’s Feed Store on Shelbyville Road, which wasn’t too bad even though I don’t much like barbeque. You got your drinks in a fruit jar, which I suppose was evoke the atmosphere of being in some down-home hayseed roadhouse, which it isn’t at all…being part of chain in a solid middle-class neighborhood.
The wonderful tree! The various species provide shade, homes for critter and human alike…timber for a trillion and one useful or beautiful objects…fruit and nuts, syrups, medicine and spirits…they clean the very air and bind the soil- and all they ask of us in return is carbon dioxide and manure. I salute the tree!
I believe these trees were sketched during a March ’03
visit to Louisville, KY. Our kids might rate it is the worst Spring Break excursion ever— judging by the state of the trees, Spring had not sprung and we dragged them to a bunch of colleges for tours prior to our son’s high school graduation.
It just happens that a sketch book has a number of tree drawings. I made this one with a very fine-line Sharpie while sojourning in the mountains of North Carolina with the Bellwood Boys.
Thus concludes this series of picture elements. Actually, there are more. What they were for shall never be known…unless Howie happens to see this and remembers!
Makes you want to squeal with delight, doesn’t it?
Here’s one of our family favorites—
a distinguished and dignified primate.
Upon inspection of these images, I would say that the initial illustration was done in Illustrator, then imported into Photoshop to add effects and the backgrounds.
Howie Rubin was the VP of the Gottlieb Video Game division. After Columbia Pictures/Coca-Cola shut the operation down, Howie worked independently or from time to time for cartridge game companies like Jaleco. I produced a lot of artwork for Howie over the years and some of it actually translated into products, like “Lotto Fun” and “Double Cheese”. But, many of the concepts never made it out the door. Here are some samples from a folder dubbed “Jaleco”…I have absolutely no recollection of for what this was intended…I don’t even remember doing it…but it has my name on it!