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Steve Forney’s San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge Poster is Now Available at www.art.com
You don’t have to travel all the way to San Francisco to marvel at the Golden Gate Bridge. My most recent poster in the Famous World Landmarks series is now available. It makes a striking companion piece to London, New … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe Photoshop, airbrush, Art Deco, California, digital, font, Golden Gate Bridge, ITC Anna, lettering, nostalgic, poster, retro, San Francisco, travel, vintage, vintage poster, world landmark
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Steve Forney’s Kings Canyon National Park Poster Now Available at www. art.com
I’m happy to announce that my Kings Canyon National Park poster is available as a gicleé print through art.com. These prints are high quality and printed on archival paper. You may choose from several sizes and they are perfect for … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Art Deco, backpacking, bighorn sheep, black, Block Berthold font, California, climbing, digital, hiking, illustration, kings, lettering, mountaineering, mountains, national parks, poster, retro, screen print, Sierra Nevada, silkscreen, travel, vintage, wilderness, wpa, yellow
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Steve Forney’s Mt. Whitney Posters Now Available at www.art.com
I’m delighted to announce that my two Mt. Whitney posters are available as a gicleé prints through art.com. These prints are high quality and printed on archival paper. You may choose from several sizes and they are perfect for framing. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, airbrush, Art Deco, Block Berthold font, California, climbing, digital, gicleé, hiking, illustration, lettering, mountaineering, mountains, Mt. Whitney, national parks, poster, retro, screen print, Sequoia, silkscreen, travel, vintage, vintage poster, world landmark
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Steve Forney’s Sequioa National Park Poster Now Available at www.art.com
I’m delighted to announce that my Sequoia National Park poster is available as a gicleé print through art.com. These prints are high quality and printed on archival paper. You may choose from several sizes and they are perfect for framing. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, adventure, Art Deco, Block Berthold font, California, cross country skier, digital, font, illustration, lettering, national parks, nostalgia, poster, retro, Sequoia, Sierra Nevada, snow, vintage, vintage poster, wilderness, wpa, yellow
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More Adventures in Typography
During down time I’ll look into my sketch books to find ideas that may be developed further. Back in my airbrush days, I created some Art Deco style lettering using nothing more than a circle template, ruler and post-it notes … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, airbrush, Art Deco, berlin, gradient, lettering, london, monochrome, paris, radio tower, retro, roma
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Adventures in Typography
Letter forms have fascinated me since I was a child. I remember using Crayolas at the family dinner table and meticulously replicating the logos of professional baseball and football teams. The overlapping “LA” of my favorite team, the Dodgers, was … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Art Deco, crayolas, font, lettering, retro, rough sketch, scan, vintage
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The Problem with Sending a Layered File for the Finished Art.
Since I’ve been illustrating digitally it has been customary to provide the client with a flattened file for the finished image. When working in Photoshop it is a TIFF; with Illustrator it is a flattened AI file. It was generally … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art direction, design, illustration, layout, martha spelman
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Mission Brand Lettering
Having grown up in southern California in the 60s and 70s, I can still remember the last vestiges of a once thriving citrus industry. Walking to school one could smell the oil-burning smudge pots and hear the whirling propellors that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, California, citrus label art, digital, font, how to, instructional, lettering, orange label, spatter, textures
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Casablanca Lettering from Rough Sketch to Finished Art
I love lettering. Some people like to sketch animals, some like to sketch people, some prefer to sketch landscapes. I like to sketch letter forms. Predominantly mid-20th Century lettering. Sometimes these letters don’t amount to anything legible, but sometimes they … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, airbrush, Art Deco, how to, Humphrey Bogart, lettering, prismacolor, retro, tutorial, vintage
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