Just a quick note, as we’re busy prepping for Bruce’s Party tonight. Pictures from the party will be uploaded to picasa during the event. Don’t forget to join the group and add your own photos if you’re at the event and have a digital camera.

Thank Roger for uploading your photos of Bruce’s party!

Twirling round and round went the little mouse.

Program: Illustrator

Congratulations RD McHattie on your new Diane Quinnell novel!

“Oxford Vindaloo is a charming collision between old world and new, east and west, technology and tradition, vaudeville and academia, age and youth, eccentricity and desperate normalcy. It’s also my favorite recipe for curried shoes.”
–Howard Jay Patterson, M.E.M.
(a.k.a. Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, C.P.K.)
founder emeritus of The Flying Karamazov Brothers

RD McHattie, Oxford Vindaloo, A Diane Quinnell story will be available Fall 2011 via local region printing and shipping wherever you live, in U.S.A., United Kingdom, Canada and Europe —

For Information:
http://www.studentsharpener.com/index.php?p=1_21

I have been experimenting with Google maps for a design project. Embedding a Google Map is as easy as copying and pasting. Click here to learn how. It’s fun!

OCTOBER 2 to 30, 2010
RECEPTION: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 6 – 8 p.m.

EXHIBITION HOURS:
Tuesday through Thursday 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Friday & Saturday 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
There is no admission fee.

Robbin Gallery
4915 – 42nd Avenue North, Robbinsdale, MN 55422
Visit: www.RobbinGallery.org Call: 763-537-5906
Two blocks east of Highway 100 on 42nd Ave North in the Historic Library Building, near the railroad crossing.

The Science Club at Minneapolis Community Technical College was looking for a logo that would combine three iconic science images to represent four studies of science. Symbols used are a gear for engineering, DNA helix for physical science, and an atom for chemistry and physics. The idea was to interlace the symbols within a circle. Each round symbol was created in Illustrator and then still on three separate layers brought together to rotating around the atoms center. Over lapping parts of symbols were cut away with the Illustrators paths tool. Final step was to join the three symbols into one vector shape again using the path tool.

Close up of a girl focused on fireflies in a jar. I invite you to visit the exhibit “Minnesota Made” at O’Shaughnessy Educational Center http://www.stthomas.edu/arthistory/exhibitions/ , runs until near the end of February. There you can view the whole of this piece, “Northern Lights” along with the works of many other talented artists from the Children’s Book Illustrator Guild. If you are not able to make the trip the complete image of “Northern Lights” can be found in my illustration gallery. http://www.linnelldesign.com/gallery/illustrations

Sneak peek of a little horse having a dance lesson. He was created in Photoshop for a show this spring at the Open Book in Minneapolis. He will be the focus of a larger composition. I wanted to get a quick start before I begin a web development course at a local Community College. When I’m done filling my brain with HTML and coding for Flash I’ll get back to this guy. He will need a background and all of his dance instructors will have to wait a few weeks to become more then sketches.

Marshmallows browned over a fire in the wilderness, yum.

Later this month I will have a piece on exhibit along with twenty other members of the MN Children Book Illustration Guild.