Lauren leaps into SURTEX 2015!

May 12, 2015

This week, I am counting down the (5!) days until SURTEX by featuring sneak peeks of each artist's work. Sharpen your pencils - this is a good one!

Tuesday is for Lauren and her snarky sensibility, inborn humor, fantastical lettering and scrumptious line work. Clients are eating up her work, with all sorts of licenses and commissions for editorial maps, suitcase fabric design and greeting cards galore. Once again, I am tickled pink (shades of indigo, actually) to represent this über-cool, super-fine talent! I'm thinking temporary tattoos next! What about you? Something tells me, your product would sell better with a little Lauren mixed in! Visit Lauren in Booth #559 or contact me for to see the more than 150 illustrations in Lauren's archive! - Jennifer

Yancy's Taste and See: Cover & Alternatives!

March 7, 2015

One project I’m really excited to see is my second illustrated album for children’s singer/ songwriter Yancy, who is based in my city of Nashville. This is the second project we’ve collaborated on, and I thought it would be great to show you some of the cover sketches that didn’t make the cut.

The album was titled “Taste & See”, so we wanted to work with a lot of sight and taste imagery, PLUS work in some great animal characters (of course). Below is the finished cover, and you can scroll down to see other versions that we worked through.

In the end, I liked this crazy rabbit so much I decided I HAD to finish him. Think of him as a “deleted scene”. Enjoy! - Lauren

Read lots more about this project and Lauren's family trip to Disney here!

Thank you!

January 25, 2015

What can I say except “thank you”? The response to our launch has been overwhelming. It has only been a week since we opened for business and already we’ve had more than 10,000 visits to this site, 1081 new Instagram followers, 770 Facebook followers, and 182 Twitter-ers! Plus, our first three inquiries from the press(!?!). It’s really gratifying to see so much enthusiasm for what we’re doing here.

On top of that we’ve had requests from 187 artists seeking representation. Thanks for your confidence! We’re keeping things small for now but I really appreciate hearing from illustrators and I LOVE seeing your amazing work. There’s a lot of talent out there and we’ll add to our roster before too long.

The biggest and best news is that we have already assigned 9 illustration jobs. Considering that our official grand opening was last Sunday (and there was a major US holiday last week) that’s a truly amazing accomplishment. Thanks especially to our new clients for awarding us these projects. We are working our hardest to make you happy and keep you coming back. Making great art is what we love best!

That’s all for now. It’s really busy here and it’s time to get back to work! - Jennifer