I’m excited to announce that my latest line of paintings and prints is available in my new Etsy store at alisonstephen.etsy.com. I’d love for you to check it out now and then, as I’ll continue adding more work. Overseas shipping is available. Thanks for you support– hope you like it! (If you aren’t familiar with Etsy, you’ll find it’s a wonderful site full of handcrafted goods of all kinds.)
Save the date to come see me at the Handmade Hong Kong Fair, 10 am- 5 pm on Sunday, May 12 at Discovery Bay! I’ll be selling paintings at a table under ‘Alison Stephen Illustration.’ (Table number TBA.) Enjoy a ferry ride to Discovery Bay, lunch by the beach, and tons of affordable, artisan-made goods at the fair! Here’s a preview of some paintings I’ve been working on.
I recently moved to Hong Kong, which promises to be an exciting and inspiring place. We got here just in time for Chinese New Year. 2013 is the year of the snake, which also happens to be my year! Check out these lions I filmed dancing in the new year at a Causeway Bay mall.
We settled into Happy Valley, a neighborhood as charming as it sounds. It is set off from Hong Kong’s main drag by a grass horse track, the middle of which is full of sports fields, walking paths and palm trees, and is open to the public most hours of the week. I really love walking by the track and seeing Hong Kong’s subtropical natural beauty interwoven with skyscrapers.
Passing Happy Valley race course at sunset.
I was surprised to see more New Yorkers in Aruba than I do at home in Brooklyn!
Photo by Jon Monroe
The 3-story mural I designed and illustrated for the new Biology building at James Madison University has gotten a few mentions:
And you can see my description of the project on my:
What did you all think of Prometheus?
Here’s a little personal project I did.
I’m excited to see that a mural I designed and illustrated for my undergraduate alma mater is being installed this week! The mural is for the new Biology building, so, of course, I cherished the opportunity to draw lots of plants and animals– a lemur, flying squirrel, and orchid, to name a few.
Mural detail of jellyfish and DNA
The mural will span 3 stories in panels of about:
The three mural panels together
3rd floor, 24’8″w x 10’9″h
2nd floor, 24’4″w x 10’8″h
1st floor, 14’8″w x 10’7″h
My design was printed onto adhesive panels and installed on the wall. When the mural is seen through the 3-story glass exterior wall of the building, the panels will appear to connect as one image. Thanks to my former professor Dr. Jon Monroe and the JMU Biology department for the job and to Erick DeMartino for guidance.
See below for more views of the finished project (photos by Jon Monroe):
Outside view of building-- mural is behind glass on left
Outside building view-- mural behind glass
First floor (jellyfish, paramecia, a virus, nostoc, trout, salamander)
Second floor (orchid, flying squirrel, butterflies, oak leaf, chameleon, lemur)
Third floor (hawk, butterflies, swallows)
DNA close-up on wall
Were there always this many dogs on planes? While landing in Chicago over Christmas vacation, I spotted no fewer than 3 little critters emerging from their under-the-seat carriers to ride out the landing lap-side. I LOVE dogs– I’m not complaining! In fact, if memory serves, our flight looked something like this…
Another illustration about a book I enjoyed, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (David Mitchell, 2010). I drew this portrait of my favorite character, Orito Aibagawa, a midwife in Dejima in turn-of-the-19th-century Japan. That’s all I should say, but there’s more to this story than meets the eye…
