September 7, 2011 | Posted By: Chris
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
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
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
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
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:
February 4, 2011 | Posted By: Chris
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…
October 1, 2010 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Artist Love, Chris, For Sale, Friends + Family, Life, Our Artwork
Well, the reason it’s been so quiet around here is because our Macbook charger died and so Annie hasn’t really set foot on the internet lately, except for the occasional email check on my computer here at the studio. Still waiting on a replacement charger. Rest assured, Annie will be back to posting again soon.
Meanwhile, earlier this year I was honored to be approached by a brand new record label, Desire Path Recordings, about doing art direction, design, and limited edition artwork for exclusively vinyl-only releases. Uh… yeah? Dream job.
So after all this time, the 12″ vinyl LP is finally ready for the world. Ritual is Solo Andata’s third full-length offering and the inaugural release for Desire Path Recordings.
I created a Limited Art Edition (akin to the Scott Tuma Dandelion LP from earlier this year) that includes a hand-drawn, hand-inked etching strictly limited to 49 copies (images below the cover art). If you want one of the etchings, don’t wait because once they’re gone, they’re gone. An ultra-deluxe Edition of One box set will also be available for purchase very soon, pictures coming soon…!
Sure, the “dark ambient” genre may likely not be your cup of tea (sorry mom and mom-in-law and fellow now-worried church members), but man, I’m really pleased with how the whole release turned out: seriously stunning sounds (essential headphone listening!) and art I’m really happy with… (Textura’s review complimented “a cover illustration that distills the material’s essence into a single image.”) It’s always such a pleasure when music, art, and design go together like cold weather, coffee, and a pipe. Yum.
Thank you Michael, Paul, Kane, Aaron, Annie, and Marshall.
More pictures to come VERY soon…!
