September 7, 2011 | Posted By: Chris | 2 Comments
Filed Under Chris, For Sale, Life, Our Artwork, Sweet Ride
Big thanks to Olivier and Marc for reaching out and highlighting some Sweet Ride art in the new issue of Steel magazine! BEAUTIFUL publication. I could thumb through it all day if I didn’t have to draw so much. Cheers!
August 26, 2011 | Posted By: Chris | 1 Comment
Filed Under Artist Love, Chris, For Sale, Friends + Family, Life, Like + Love, Our Artwork
As many of you probably know by now, I’m a pretty big fan of Scott Tuma, whose music has filled the Koelle family headquarters for years. If you’ve ever spent any decent amount of time at our house or studio, the chances are you heard Mr. Tuma’s music playing in the background, perhaps softly, perhaps loudly. The thing is, the beauty (and I don’t use that word lightly–real, tangible, audible, heart-aching beauty you can almost touch with the tips of your fingers through the air in the room) of much of Scott’s music is that even when it’s turned up loud on the stereo, it’s still as soft as the freshly made bed sheets you covered yourself under as a child with a warm-to-the-touch see-the-lava-red-color-of-blood-through-your-fingertips-pressed flashlight to light and warm the self-made gravity-laden cavern tent in the night with the lights out in your room, in your bed.
Last year I had the joy of creating the artwork / limited art edition for his last solo record Dandelion (Digitalis) and I’m so happy to have created all new artwork for this essential vinyl / cassette reissue of Not For Nobody (originally released in 2008 on CD also by Digitalis) presented by the always wonderful Immune Recordings.
I created as part of the reissue a very limited art edition book, bound by hand, featuring 16 pages of new drawing and collage artwork inspired by Scott’s own kaleidoscopic photographs of his surroundings–ravens, weather vanes, church steeples, barren branches.
Each hand-bound book (measuring 8.25×8″ folded) is printed full-color on thick card stock and individually signed and numbered in a limited edition of only 44 copies.
These limited art edition LPs will likely go fast. Pre-orders available now at Immune! $44 shipped in the US.
August 10, 2011 | Posted By: Chris | 2 Comments
Filed Under Artist Love, Chris, History of Redemption, Life, Our Artwork
Been buried in Revelation App work, so a post is long overdue!
So, wow, I’m so excited to share this…!
Four of my History of Redemption illustrations were selected to appear in FRESH Volume 3! a whopping 352-page anthology of contemporary illustration from artists around the world, created by the designers of Slanted magazine, of the German Agency MAGMA Brand Design. You can order the book direct from Germany at the link above, or if you’re feeling a little less international, you can order from Amazon. There are also two other massive volumes, featuring both 3D-object and public art, forming a trilogy box set (w0w!)
It is quite the collection of international work, just beautifully designed and printed, and I’m very happy and honored to rub shoulders with such great artists from around the globe. Thanks, Slanted!
Some shots of my pieces followed by a few favorites in the book (lookit that fat 2-page spread, woo!)
July 13, 2011 | Posted By: Chris | 4 Comments
Filed Under Chris, Life, Our Artwork, RevelationApp
Chapter 4 coming this Friday! @RevelationApp available now in the App Store!
June 15, 2011 | Posted By: Chris | No Comments
Filed Under Life, RevelationApp
… or at least the beginning of my most recent labor of love, blood, sweat, and tears, coming very soon to an iPad / iPhone / iPod near you:
The Book of Revelation. Stay tuned. Follow @RevelationApp.
Meanwhile:
April 24, 2011 | Posted By: Chris | 4 Comments
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February 4, 2011 | Posted By: Chris | 1 Comment
Filed Under Annie, Art Shows, For Sale, Life, Our Artwork
. . . for neglecting the blog for so long. Suffice it to say we’ve been working nonstop, me on a ridiculously insane graphic novel, and Annie on whatever awesomeness she sets her mind to, and Narshall on saving the world, oh, AND the laptop was dead for a good long while (thanks, lousy off-brand charger) so that kind of put a pause on Annie’s usually frequent posts here.
But hoo-ray, the laptop is back in action and we never stopped actioning, so there are plenty of things to catch up on. First off, there’s a show tonight at Art & Light, and there shall be tons of beautiful new gems from the heart and hand of Annie. Sneak peek here…
November 2, 2010 | Posted By: Chris | 8 Comments
Filed Under Art Shows, Chris, For Sale, History of Redemption, Our Artwork
This weekend is Greenville Open Studios 2010, joy! Annie and I are getting our studio and gallery all nice and pretty for the public, along with Jason Waggoner here at White Whale Studios. Things are crazy busy but we’re so excited to all be in Open Studios this year!
Check out the Facebook Event page HERE
I’ll have a ton of brand new prints from the History of Redemption book illustrations, some of which are shown here (and they look awesome! I’m so pleased with them). More sneak peeks at Dribbble too.
Annie will be showcasing a ton of beautiful pieces as well, all lovely little gems…
Oh, and we’re taking credit card payments now. Yep, making it reeeeal easy for you.
If you’re mobile device savvy, be sure to visit www.greenvilleopenstudios.com on your smarty-phone for your oh-so-helpful Open Studios guide this year! Sweet.
Come out to visit us and all the other amazing artists around Greenville! It’s going to be an awesome weekend.
