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To all those mysterious watchers who are interested enough to read this: hello once again! Since my last entry I again find myself in a new place: Chicago! My girlfriend is going to SAIC for her master's in sculpture, so I'm here too, pretending to be a freelance illustrator. Upon our departure from California, I was hired to illustrate someone's manuscript that they are self-publishing. The book is called "Jimmy and the Rainbow," and yes, it is about a little boy and rainbows. But, hey, the job pays well and let's just say I'm trying to make the best of it, despite the fact that I would never find myself writing this story. So, in the weeks to come, I'll be posting some pages and spreads that are either somewhat dull and boring OR super-saturated rainbow joy. You've been warned.
Hello...? *copious moths fly out of da journal*
Hey everyone. It's been a long year at grad school, but a good one. I have a lot of new work. Some semblance of a new style, or more personal sensibility might just be asserting itself. And you can see it all on my freshly remade website! www.mlauritano.com. Check it out! Raise your hand if you actually even care about me updating here (...!...?). Cheers, all.
-M
KICKSTARTER FINAL HOURS!
As of writing this, I'm only $65 away from my stretch goal of $5,000! If you appreciated the project at all, now is the time to throw $5 my way and get a cute letterpress notecard. Or more, if you're that into it!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/596122080/the-domestic-menagerie?ref=home_location
Hopefully, I won't be posting as much dry, black and white work for a while. In fact, I have a couple lush poster designs, I'll put up soon. Thanks for watching, everyone.
-M
Hello again, DeviantART.
Hi strangers and friends of the internet,
It's been over a year since I've taken the time to write one of these things, but A LOT has happened. I went through a pretty lousy breakup, left the lovely city of Chicago and my amazing job there, and moved back to the east coast. I applied to graduate school at the School of Visual Arts, for their awesome Illustration as Visual Essay MFA program and got in (!). I started to learn about graphic design taking continuing ed. classes at Massart. And I'm moving to Queens in a month.
My current creative project is The Domestic Menagerie. It is a collection of illustrated works on paper that combines an
Update (finally)
Hey All,
So, I've just posted up some of the efforts from my first published kid's book work, Snowmobile. If you enjoy riding snowmobiles or know a young feller who does that also happens to be learning to read, you might want to buy this book on Amazon. The experience of making the illustrations was far from perfect, but I'm happy to have my foot (or at least one crushed toe) in the door of the publishing world.
Yes, it's been a bajillion years since my last post. This is primarily because I got an awesome day job in Chicago. I'm now Jay Ryan's official, solo printer and assistant at a shop called The Bird Machine. Jay is kind of famous in
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Jimmy and the Rainbow? Please please PLEASE tell me that this is a children's book and not a novel.