.post.office.stamp.designs.

one of the illustration class projects we did last year was for the south african post office..we received a list themes, and i chose the year of biodiversity..for this specific theme, we had to design four stamps and a commemorative envelope..at the end of the project, all of the students submitted their designs to the post office, and the best of each theme will be produced and be available in 2011..for these illustrations i used oil paint to do mono-prints for the backgrounds, and water-paint for the main motives, reworked with pen and ink..

.stamp #1: plants & birds.

.stamp #2: mammals.

.stamp #3: fish & insects.

.stamp #4: amphibians & reptiles.

.stamp sheet.

.commemorative envelope.

.mountains.are.sleeping.giants.

my friend bernard feeds off of music..it is his every being..he is in a band called stars for eyes with one of his closest friends, warren, but a while ago he was thinking starting a little solo project on the side..he wrote some amazing guitar songs for it, and decided to call this project mountains are sleeping giants..
he asked me to do an illustration for m.a.s.g, and this is what i came up with..

bernard and i have also been thinking about starting out own t-shirt label, ideally doing all the designs as well as the screen printing ourselves..we've only done two test prints, as the start of a long journey of figuring out how to master screen printing, and we used the one m.a.s.g character as our first print design..

even though it obviously needs improvement, i have to admit, it feels pretty darn awesome to see one of my illustrations on a t-shirt..