A Little Illo

Greetings, and thanks for being patient while I barreled toward the end of the semester. To keep you from being bored, I decided to post one of my school projects: an illustration for a magazine spread. The article that spoke to me was actually an opinion piece published by AOL regarding the state of art thievery: how it hasn't been taken seriously enough, has been romanticized compared to other kinds of crimes, and how the thieves themselves -- rather than being real life Thomas Crown types, are generally just thugs of different stripes. Middle Eastern terrorists have gotten into the act, too.

Of course, my intention is that the image here doesn't need to be explained (does it?), but I'll explain anyway. Vincent is being kidnapped out of a "Starry Night"-style environment.

One of my concerns with this piece is the busy-ness around the figure of van Gogh -- all that swirly sky stuff. But when I produced a version where the swirls had been quieted way down in favor of a blacker sky, one of my close-to-home critics said, "Nope. I like it the other way. You need the swirls."