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!
November 2, 2010 | Posted By: Chris
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.
October 12, 2010 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, Friends + Family, Our Artwork
Finally, we have documented the Solo Andata Ritual Edition of One, an utterly unique hand-made box set created in honor of the inaugural release from Desire Path Recordings.
Beautifully photographed by my good friend and Desire Path collaborator Aaron Greene, the Ritual Edition of One includes:
- The Ritual 12″ LP Art Edition, featuring Ritual etching number 1 of 50, signed and numbered by C. Koelle
- 12″ LP featuring totally unique and singular blood-red marbled vinyl LP
- The original one-of-a-kind cover artwork painting, drawn in white chalk and China marker on a 12″x12″x1″ black-painted wood panel, signed and dated on back by C. Koelle
- A unique laser-etched CD-R containing nearly 40 minutes of exclusive, unreleased live recordings from Solo Andata
- All contents lovingly swaddled in white gauze and housed in a completely custom hand-made black wooden box with sliding lid
- $600 including shipping and insurance anywhere in the world SOLD
Although the Edition of One is spoken for, the Limited Art Edition, including a signed and numbered etching, is still available exclusively at Desire Path Recordings. But if you want one, don’t wait because there are only 49 for the world, and once they’re gone, they’re gone for good!
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…!
August 11, 2010 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, History of Redemption, Our Artwork
Some more pics of the most recent drawings for The History of Redemption book, mostly pencil, some ink here and there, all piled for the eyes of ye faithful.
I started posting previews of recently completed illustrations (or in progress) on Dribbble, so follow along if you’d like to see what’s the latest.
As I mentioned before, alot of the inspiration for some of the illustrations are after older works of art, by lots of different old masters from different eras. It’s sort of like a sacred art remix, and it’s a blast (you art historians might notice Bosch, Velazquez, etc)… I’m really excited about everything.
About 50 illustrations… full pages, two-page spreads… this thing is going to be a monster. I’ll post more completed illustrations soon!
