Monday, July 27, 2015

Meanwhile, back at the Huntington...



Years ago, I did a project that was a mix of exhibit development and science illustration work for the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. I'm always delighted when their team gets in touch with me again for new adventures in art.



This time I was invited to mine their collections (rare books, cool old plants, fabulous sculptures, historic manuscripts, elegant furniture) and cobble together into a sort of fanciful patchwork quilt that would decorate the windows of their new entrance and orientation gallery.




The idea was to make it a sort of filagree pattern, that would be applied to the windows as a giant vinyl decal. I drew the images in Photoshop first, then converted the final draft to vector images that could be scaled up to fit the windows.

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I haven't seen it in person yet, but these pics of the installation process are delightfully fun. (Image credit: Karina White.)

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The Huntington's blog, Verso, wrote an article about the project with more fun photos. Fun adventure all around.