Salvaged Treasures Project Video Snapshot

dominion.

Lovely.

lovely.

Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators

check out my interview on the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators website.
or click April 2011 Newsletter to go directly to the pdf newsletter.

Post-It Art

for a period of three months, I began a daily creative exercise whereby I generated as many random images as possible in a 20-minute time period using standard yellow post-it® notes, markers and colored pencils.
The finished post-it notes are displayed in my gallery show, Life After Lovely, in Johnstown, PA throughout the month of April 2011.

to check out more of my post-it notes, see my behance project page.

Life After Lovely Opening

The Life After Lovely art opening was a success! Good turnout, tasty food, great music, happy vibes. Thanks to all who attended.

Click here to see a full slideshow of the art and event

Characters

These are some characters I designed for a local fundraising event.
Salvaged Treasures Project, Johnstown PA

Life After Lovely Art show

Life After Lovely



Fresh, New Art by James W. Elston
at the ARTWORKS in Johnstown!

413 Third Ave.
Johnstown PA 15906

April 7, 2011 6-9pm


Live music by the Peter Bond Project, Mark Weakland and Striped Maple Hollow
Call 814-659-1598 for more information

or email studio@jameselston.com

Paintings, Post-it notes and ballyhoo!!!

recent paintings

I did these paintings for the Characters! Show at Studio 5216 in Los Angeles.

The opening is this Saturday (2-28-11) 6pm-11pm. free.

Studio 5216
5216 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

Here is the event info on Facebook.

Valentine girl

Valentine Girl. Markers and Colored Pencil

Local TV interview

part 1

part 2

My wife and I were interviewed for a local cable access TV show called, "A Woman's Worth is Worth Talking About", hosted by Sharon Narcisse.

Chinese New Year

my Taiwanese Mom asked me to make a thing for her Chinese New Year party.
Year of the Rabbit y'all.

Illustration Friday- Big Chicken

Big Chicken. yeah.
for Illustration Friday

Deja Vu

Deja Vu! for Illustration friday

Drip.

Prints for sale

Security. 16x20 coated, printed on canvas.

$55.

click here to go to my etsy shop

yes yes y'all

11"x17" acrylic on board

Oliver and the Magic Snowflake interactive children's book

I recently illustrated 2 children's booklets for a company that makes large mall structures.
The mall structure is called "The Ice Palace", and it ties in with Disney's Chronicles of Narnia "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" film. There are a handful of malls in the US that have this Ice Palace structure. Check the list here: International Plaza

Originally, I was hired to illustrate the free book that they give to children who visit the Ice Palace, but then they added a second interactive book for the website.

The story in the book/website stayed far away from the Narnia references, because of licensing restrictions.


You can check it the interactive book here:
Oliver and the Magic Snowflake

I did all the illustrations, and another outfit animated the elements and made it interactive.


Here is a page from the first book. I went from thumbnail (drawn on a post-it note) to final illustration. I had already illustrated most of the pages, so the sketch on this one didn't need to be very detailed, since I had already defined the characters.

Represent!

so at last I have representation... in the UK anyway.
The Sylvie Poggio agency.

woot!

Pepsi Refresh Everything grant

Hey, this arts group that I am involved with is trying to get a grant from Pepsi's Refresh Everything program. These people are awesome, and the town I live in really needs this. This would make a big difference. Voting closes at the end of November, we are trying to get into the top 10, and it has been hovering around 79 for a long time. Please vote! Thank you!
http://www.refresheverything.com/voma
-logging into the pepsi site using your email
-using your facebook account
-text 103848 to Pepsi (73774)... free, but standard text messaging rates apply

thank you!