Shameless Homage, Repurposed Art

No time for art a Friday Night Art Project -- last weekend was our annual floor-to-ceiling Tea room cleanout and I spent Friday night pre-cleaning.

This is an illustration I did for the cover of this week's North Coast Journal (my employer, and so thus repurposed art) illustrating two separate stories concerning Aleutian Canada geese and Chinook salmon. I couldn't pass on the opportunity to do an homage to M.C. Escher's "Birds and Fish" tessellation. The illustrations were traced from photos in Adobe Illustrator, then assembled into the tessellation. Textures and color gradients were added to the final illustration in Photoshop. On newstands now.