This week, I'm taking some time to further update the art offerings before I hit the road this weekend to destinations far and away. Here's a few of the most recent pieces:
The "Aperture" column at The Solitary Life originally had "found" (read: "swooped") artwork for the camera photo, so I updated this with an old hand-drawing of my very first camera, a silver-bodied Minolta X-370 SLR. I still shoot from time to time with a film-guzzling (and wallet-draining) Minolta X-Series, but nowadays it's a black-bodied X-370N with a 17-35mm zoom lens.
Some of the art simply had to be tracked down, and cleaned up a smidge. The Solitary Life archives are a bleedin' mess, due to the editors' utter inability to organize competently. "The Editor", of course, is yours truly... and boy, do I suck sometimes. I spent most of tonight, cursing myself. That's becoming commonplace these days.
Heads Up, kids: We'll soon be running the "Better Letter Contest" as a regular feature, and it'll be a choice means of winning tons of free swag. All y'gotta do is write a legible, entertaining, funny, and smart letter. I know it's hard. But seriously, you can do it. Get those letters in...! The addy is still budstratford@aol.com.
The beloved "Smoking Pig" logo makes it's return (we'd never, ever even think of retiring that one), cleaned up for it's new home...
...while the "Commuter" logo also gets a minor makeover, and a newer, bolder ink treatment courtesy of a fistful of brand-new Sharpies...
Doing the art has been a mighty good time, but I'm seriously looking forward to hitting the road, and causing some major trouble along the way. Stay tuned...!
