tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57279555345089546952024-03-14T05:11:52.466-04:00Melinda JosieMelinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.comBlogger306125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-80095597410229125612014-07-17T09:22:00.000-04:002014-07-17T09:22:31.873-04:00July 17th 2014<div style="text-align: center;">
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Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-77088918544160981172014-02-04T14:07:00.000-05:002014-02-04T15:48:09.185-05:00February 4th 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a while now I've been planning to challenge myself with a personal project, one that I haven't attempted since art school; a self portrait. I've been doing a number of editorial portraits lately, but this project felt very different to me. I'd explained to a friend that it was a completely different way of working on a portrait, because I sometimes knew what features were so familiar in their placement and colouration, I'd forget to look at my reference. That's not something I tend to run in to when I'm working on a portrait of someone I'm not very familiar with.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This image is the finished portrait. I'd taken a few process photos, but they were mostly terrible shots, so I'm not including those below in this post. I get questions concerning how I build a painting up, so I'll be sure and take better photos to share in the future.</span><br />
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Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-25680755838927634602014-01-20T09:05:00.002-05:002014-02-04T14:14:00.824-05:00January 20th 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">This morning, I wanted to post a number of the business portraits I've been working on for </span><a href="http://www.southwest.com/"><span style="color: #444444;">Southwest Airlines</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">' inflight; </span><a href="http://www.spiritmag.com/"><span style="color: #444444;">Spirit Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, in the past few months.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randi_Zuckerberg"><span style="color: #444444;">Randi Zuckerberg</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 19px;">former Director of Market Development and Spokeswoman for </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #666666; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Facebook">Facebook</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 19px;">, and sister of the company's co-founder and CEO </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #666666; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Mark Zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a></span></div>
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Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-64518250724678026802014-01-15T08:41:00.000-05:002014-01-15T08:41:39.307-05:00January 15th 2014<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a little belated, but happy new year, everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To say that I have a little catching up to do on this blog is a <i>bit</i> of an understatement. It's quite embarrassing how behind I've gotten on this thing. (Perhaps I should use this post as a job listing for a new studio assistant??).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though very little has been posted here in the last… month… s… I plan to go back through the work I've done over the past while and update what I've been up to during this hiatus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">So; since my last post, some exciting projects have come over my desk. One in particular was a solo show that I worked on over the summer, and opened at </span><a href="http://www.helliongallery.com/?p=6165&wppa-album=83&wppa-photo=2534&wppa-cover=0&wppa-occur=2"><span style="color: #444444;">Hellion Gallery</span></a><span style="color: #999999;"> in Portland in November. I've got photos of the two new paintings I did for the show that I'm fixing up, and will do a proper post in a couple of days.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I also worked for </span><a href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine"><span style="color: #444444;">TIME Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #999999;"> for the first time this September. I was asked to do a set of nine portraits for them for an article</span></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on the Clinton Global Initiative; among the portraits were ones of Bill Gates and Brad Pitt, which was a lot of fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I've been working for nearly a year now as the regular weekly illustrator for </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/magazine/"><span style="color: #444444;">The New York Times Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">'s back page; the Lives article. It's been a wonderful job so far, and I'll post a few below with links to their articles.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To close off this first post of 2014: some New Year's resolutions; drink more water, take my vitamins, keep this thing updated like a responsible freelance illustrator...</span>Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-18001344259814517402013-08-14T11:05:00.004-04:002013-08-14T11:06:22.920-04:00August 14th 2013<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I've found out about some pretty great contemporary artists through </span><a href="http://beautifuldecay.com/" style="color: #444444;">Beautiful Decay</a><span style="color: #999999;"> in the past, but one of their more recent posts found me falling in love with the work of painter </span><a href="http://jeremymiranda.com/"><span style="color: #444444;">Jeremy Miranda</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">. His work is some of my favourite that I've seen in a long, long time.</span></span><br />
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Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-87420841158811144782013-07-29T12:06:00.000-04:002013-07-29T12:06:35.645-04:00July 29th 2013<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">One of my favourite recurring illustration jobs in the last while has been a set of black and white portraits of chefs featured in </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/%E2%80%8E"><span style="color: #444444;">The New York Times</span></a><span style="color: #999999;"> 'Eat' section of </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/index.html"><span style="color: #444444;">the magazine</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">. Some previous features have been done on chefs </span><a href="http://melindajosie.blogspot.ca/2012/09/september-5th-2012.html"><span style="color: #444444;">Juanjo López</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, </span><a href="http://melindajosie.blogspot.ca/2012/12/december-3rd-2012.html"><span style="color: #444444;">Julie Sahni</span></a><span style="color: #999999;"> and </span><a href="http://melindajosie.blogspot.ca/2013/02/february-26th-2013.html" style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;">Claudia Roden</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">The two illustrations pictured below were published in the magazine in the past few months. The first, of Linda Lau Anusasananan, was featured in mid-May in an article called '</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/hakka-dishes-that-helped-define-chinese-restaurant-cooking-in-america.html?_r=0&gwh=D690029E2ADA2494D7EDE86674BFE6A7"><span style="color: #444444;">The Nomad's Kitchen</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">', and the second of Edward Khechemyan was featured in this past weekend's article titled, '</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/magazine/this-armenian-life.html"><span style="color: #444444;">This Armenian Life'</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">.</span></span><br />
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Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-55800606106589242272013-07-24T11:04:00.000-04:002013-07-24T11:04:55.684-04:00July 24th 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Back in the early spring, I had a couple of visitors. The one, Celine McKay, was an old friend from back home. She now runs a beautiful publication, </span><a href="http://www.puregreenmag.com/"><span style="color: #444444;">Pure Green Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">. The other was a local photographer, who's work I've admired for a while now; </span><a href="http://www.rebeccawood.ca/"><span style="color: #444444;">Rebecca Wood</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">. Celine had asked us to get together so they could do a feature on my workspace for the current issue of the magazine, </span><a href="http://www.puregreenmag.com/pure-green-blog/volume-6-preview"><span style="color: #444444;">Inspired Workspace</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">We met up at the Common, a favourite coffee shop of mine, had a nice chat, then headed back to my home/workspace for more photos.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">It was so wonderful to catch up with Celine after so many years. We'd been friends in high school, and as these things go sometimes, had lost touch over the years proceeding. She now runs this magazine and has recently become a new mother, so we had a lot to catch up on!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Below are some photos from the feature, as well as some outtakes, all captured by Rebecca. They were both so lovely to work with, and it was such a great day spent with two great women.</span></span></div>
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Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-1983316995867138422013-07-19T12:33:00.000-04:002013-07-19T12:33:00.974-04:00July 19th 2013<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a much needed update, and there will be lots more coming soon.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been so busy, (and overwhelmed by this heat wave we're having), that I haven't had much time to show what's been keeping me so busy. Sometimes it can be quite hard finding a balance between working and showing my work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Here's something to get the (rather large) ball rolling; I've been asked by </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/magazine/"><span style="color: #444444;">The New York Times Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #999999;"> to do a weekly job with them. I'm illustrating the final page of the magazine,for the Lives section. I've done these jobs before, but it's nice to have something so regular!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #999999;">Another portrait for the business section of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">this month's issue of </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Southwest Airline's </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.spiritmag.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #444444;">Spirit Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #444444;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #999999;"> This month featured</span></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Finerman" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #444444;">Karen Finerman</span></a><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">, co-host of CNBC's Fast Money.</span>Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-14820439872935909182013-05-28T15:45:00.000-04:002013-06-19T10:22:05.344-04:00May 29th 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a change, I'd like to post someone else's work that I've been admiring lately. (Okay, admiring is putting it lightly; I'm a little obsessed with it).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">A friend had told me to check out the Rose Bakery book, </span><i><a href="http://ca.phaidon.com/store/food-cook/how-to-boil-an-egg-9780714862415/"><span style="color: #444444;">How to Boil an Egg</span></a></i><span style="color: #999999;">, a little while ago because she thought I'd like the watercolour illustrations throughout it. She wasn't kidding! </span></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's always nice to find new sources of inspiration, and this was quite the gem.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They're painted by British artist, </span><a href="http://www.fionastrickland.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Fiona Strickland</span></a><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. She mainly paints highly realistic botanical illustrations, but made the most incredible, highly rendered paintings of food for this book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Fiona, you're a marvel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was contacted by Brooke Manning a little while back to create signage for the shop she'll be opening here in Toronto a little later in the summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">She sent me some pretty fantastic reference to go from; </span><a href="http://kjones1102.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/8c_mrs_dalloway_19281.jpg"><span style="color: #444444;">a 1928 cover of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, which I used to hand-letter the name of her shop, </span><i><a href="http://www.likelygeneral.com/"><span style="color: #444444;">Likely General</span></a></i><span style="color: #999999;">. She also asked that her sweet </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Ellie, be included in the design. I ended up having a ton of fun both painting and lettering this project for her, and was excited to see it all up on </span><a href="http://www.likelygeneral.com/"><span style="color: #444444;">her new website</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, (even the favicon at the top!).</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her sweet little Roncesvalles general store will be opening in August of this year, and I'm thrilled for her! Yay, Brooke!</span><br />
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Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-2939878824823852312013-05-10T11:59:00.001-04:002013-05-10T11:59:14.992-04:00May 10th 2013<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, it's rainy and grey, so I'll share a little painting I did of a husky recently that cheers me right up.</span><div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, in some great news for the art world; the </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/arts/design/moma-reconsiders-plan-to-raze-folk-art-museum.html?_r=0" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">MoMA is rethinking their plans to demolish the American Folk Art Museum</span></a><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in New York.</span></div>
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Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-44220638059575798722013-05-06T12:34:00.001-04:002013-05-07T08:59:21.723-04:00May 7th 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-44248188194753561432013-05-03T13:17:00.000-04:002013-05-03T13:17:25.687-04:00May 3rd 2013<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Back in March I was asked to create a set of illustrations for </span><a href="http://thewalrus.ca/"><span style="color: #444444;">The Walrus</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, for their 'Miscellany' section. I've worked with the magazine for years, but have always wanted to do the illustrated treatment used for the beginning section of the magazine.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">A favourite series of mine from years ago was done by my friend </span><a href="http://www.teammacho.com/"><span style="color: #444444;">Lauchie</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, which you can view </span><a href="http://walrusmagazine.com/image-gallery/arboreal/?ref=2009.07-comics-an-arboreal-history-lauchie-reid-team-macho&page="><span style="color: #444444;">here</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">. He even won a gold medal at the </span><a href="http://www.magazine-awards.com/"><span style="color: #444444;">National Magazine Awards</span></a><span style="color: #999999;"> for his work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I was given the task of coming up with a theme that would run through the series of illustrations, and I thought it would be fun to illustrate a 'supermarket' theme</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">. I painted the type in the style of an </span><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/08/06/honest_eds_sign_painters_keeps_tradition_alive.html"><span style="color: #444444;">Honest Ed's hand-painted sign</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, an editor's note on green organizations like Green Peace using green produce, the letter section as an envelope of coupons and the contributors section like a carton of eggs.</span></span><br />
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Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-50472601303405910082013-05-01T10:19:00.000-04:002013-05-01T10:19:37.958-04:00May 1st 2013<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy May!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's from a job I completed at the end of the winter, and was unfortunately cancelled after it had been finished. I was really happy with the way these little paintings turned out! And the last image is of a pattern I was asked to make using pieces of the images below.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This installation was an emotional one to view in person. I was approached by the friendly gallery attendant I'd met in a previous section of the gallery and told to take a piece of the candy. I thought he was joking, but he insisted. He then pointed out the placard off to the side, which read:</span></div>
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Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-91958110923903420812013-04-22T09:17:00.000-04:002013-04-22T09:17:01.009-04:00April 22nd 2013<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Tomorrow I'll be heading off for the rest of the week. I'm taking a trip to Chicago, partially for a little break away, but also to visit a few of galleries and museums. I've been wanting to visit the </span><a href="http://www.artic.edu/"><span style="color: #444444;">Art Institute of Chicago</span></a><span style="color: #999999;"> for some time, as well as the </span><a href="http://www.mcachicago.org/"><span style="color: #444444;">Museum of Contemporary Art</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">. I'm looking forward to sharing a few stories and photos from the trip when I get back.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">In the meantime I wanted to post something that I finished a little while back.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">A friend had approached me to paint a family tree for his mother's upcoming birthday. He had some wonderful ideas for it, and it was a pleasure to paint. He wanted some imagery that showed hints at the family's heritage and some Canadiana included.</span></span><br />
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Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-86986794266485645642013-03-26T13:54:00.001-04:002013-03-26T13:54:34.257-04:00March 26th 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">This past Sunday, </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/magazine/"><span style="color: #444444;">The New York Times Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #999999;"> published another 'Feast-in-a-Day' article; this time, a spring passover/ southern meal based in Charleston, North Carolina.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I was asked to illustrate ten of the ingredients and implements needed to create the meal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">The online article features an interactive section and video of the meal being put together, (as well as tiny little images of my illustrations throughout), and you can find it all </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/03/24/magazine/charleston-feast.html"><span style="color: #444444;">here</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">.</span></span>Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-37576790766974315162013-03-08T10:09:00.001-05:002013-03-08T10:09:13.875-05:00March 8th 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">A while back, I was asked to participate in </span><a href="http://tw.mydpi.com/mag/"><span style="color: #444444;">DPI Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">'s Meticulous Art issue. I'd been familiar with their magazine for years, so I was very flattered that they'd asked me to be a part of the issue.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">The magazine is based in Taiwan, has been published for over 15 years, and features the work of artists from all over the world. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Back in December I was asked to create an illustration for </span><a href="http://www.rexall.ca/"><span style="color: #444444;">Rexall</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">'s new health magazine, <i>FeelGood</i>, depicting items that could be used to maintain a healthy lifestyle and prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">The first issue of the magazine went out across Canada during the month of January.</span></span>Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-24583123525807350562013-02-28T13:34:00.000-05:002013-02-28T13:34:00.014-05:00February 28th 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Last month I posted an illustration I'd done for </span><a href="http://www.spiritmag.com/"><span style="color: #444444;">Spirit Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, Southwest Airlines' inflight magazine of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://melindajosie.blogspot.ca/2013/01/january-8th-2013.html"><span style="color: #444444;">CEO and co-founder of Geomagic, Ping Fu</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">This one, published in February, was of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Whitacre,_Jr."><span style="color: #444444;">Ed Whitacre</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, former Chairman and CEO of General Motors.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been having a lot of fun with all of the portrait work I've been getting lately, and I'm looking forward to doing these monthly for their business section.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been busy working on a few things at the same time lately, and I have a <i>very</i> brief reprieve from everything to catch up on what's been happening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">For today, I'll show a couple of the </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/magazine/"><span style="color: #444444;">New York Times Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #999999;"> pieces I've been doing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">The first was published back at the beginning of February for the Eat section of the magazine. I was very excited to get a chance to illustrate a portrait of a remarkable woman; </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Roden"><span style="color: #444444;">Claudia Roden</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">. I love </span><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Book-Jewish-Food-Odyssey-Samarkand/dp/0394532589/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1361901355&sr=8-3"><span style="color: #444444;"><i>The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York</i></span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, and have been meaning to pick up </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Eastern-Feast-Penguin-Great/dp/0241951119"><span style="color: #444444;"><i>A Middle Eastern Feast</i></span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, mostly because it has the most incredible</span></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> cover, and I'm a sucker for that sort of thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I love doing the sketches for jobs. Sometimes I almost prefer the loose look of them to tighter, finished illustrations, but this particular illustration proved to test me a little. Usually it takes one polished sketch, and I'm off to the races, but it took me a few tries to get this one right! I thought it would be easy, because Roden is a gorgeous woman and I was looking forward to painting her. Perhaps that was the problem; I assumed it would be easy! The first couple ended up looking quite masculine! I was debating showing the first couple of sketches, but they're actually a bit too terrible to show to the public! Instead I'll just show the finished illustration:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I love working on black and white portraits. I've done a few of these for the Times now, and they're always a lot of fun to do, and look better printed in the small scale they're set in. A couple of previous ones are here: </span><a href="http://melindajosie.blogspot.ca/2012/09/september-5th-2012.html"><span style="color: #444444;">Chef Juanjo López</span></a><span style="color: #999999;"> and </span><a href="http://melindajosie.blogspot.ca/2012/12/december-3rd-2012.html"><span style="color: #444444;">Chef Julie Sahni</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">. I've also been doing a number of them in colour for Southwest Airline's inflight magazine, </span><a href="http://www.spiritmag.com/"><span style="color: #444444;">Spirit</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, and I'll post those later this week.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">The other illustration I did recently for NYTimes was for an article titled, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/magazine/azerbaijan-is-rich-now-it-wants-to-be-famous.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0"><span style="color: #444444;">Azerbaijan Is Rich. Now It Wants to Be Famous</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">. This article looked fantastic in print, because the designer, </span><a href="http://imprint.printmag.com/publication-design/2012-new-visual-artist-caleb-bennett/"><span style="color: #444444;">Caleb Bennett</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, used the title of the article in vertical format to create a soaring skyline. He asked me to create a collection of tiny palm trees to sit at the base of the skyline, that could be spread throughout the article.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I had no idea it would be so complicated to paint a bunch of tiny palm trees, but to make them look realistic was really tough! I'm so happy with the way they turned out though, and how they look in the finished layout.</span></span>Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-73585912887879520402013-02-13T10:25:00.002-05:002013-02-13T10:25:17.348-05:00February 13th 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Years ago, when </span><a href="http://www.teammacho.com/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Chris</span></a><span style="color: #999999;"> and I first started dating, we were living in different cities. We'd gone to school together in Oakville, but didn't start dating until he'd graduated and moved to Toronto. So we'd sometimes send little packages to each other. He was a professional parcel-sender; sometimes even constructing the boxes that housed the little presents he'd send.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This little beauty was one of my favourites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #999999;">He'd used sections of paper towel rolls to hold a small box in the centre of the package in place. In each side of the tubes, he'd cut out tiny pink giraffes that I didn't see until I'd removed the box. (For reference; the giraffes are probably less than 2 centimetres tall). The little box was the first toy I ever got from the newly opened </span><a href="http://www.magic-pony.com/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Magic Pony</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">. It was a tiny deer figurine from Japan that had to be assembled. Also housed inside this parcel was a hot pink pencil crayon. (I'd been going through a hot pink phase in my sketchbooks, haha!).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #999999;">Receiving these parcels was such a treat. I was in my final year at school, under a lot of stress, and those little treats did wonders to lift my spirits. </span></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">It's been </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">years since I received this surprise package in the mail, and I've held on to it all this time as a reminder of the early days of our courtship.</span>Melinda Josiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01521761197030616526noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727955534508954695.post-14278377950497490432013-01-24T11:57:00.001-05:002013-01-24T11:57:15.294-05:00January 24th 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">This past weekend I had a visit from photographer </span><a href="http://www.ardenwray.com/"><span style="color: #444444;">Arden Wray</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">. She's been working on an online project called </span><a href="http://bootsandpine.com/"><span style="color: #444444;">Boots & Pine</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, taking portraits of those in the creative communities; so far, around Toronto and Hamilton.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">She was a lot of fun to visit with, and got some lovely photos out of our couple of hours together. You can view our interview and her photos from the other day </span><a href="http://bootsandpine.com/melinda-josie/"><span style="color: #444444;">here</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, but the rest of the site is a lot of fun to look through.</span></span></div>
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