The model in the foreground was one of my art students, Cathy Baylough, I was teaching commercial art classes and was head of the Advertising Department at the Art School of the Society of arts and Crafts, now the Center for Creative Studies. Teaching full time and handling tough advertising deadlines was a tricky situation at times.
That's Jeanne, my wife, who was a busy model in town, she passed away several years ago.
Automotive catalog work was always done under a great deal of pressure as the art had to go through several stages of approval, but it was a great opportunity to display one's work. Competition for these assignments was fierce as Detroit was full of competent artists ready to tackle these jobs as the monetary rewards were very good.
3 comments:
These are handsome. Thanks for posting them. --Bob Cosgrove
I think this is some of my most favorite work Harry.You really created a feeling of sophistication with these pages, well done!
I'm guessing the media was probably gouache, was most of the imagery photo referenced? I think you did a great job of integrating it.
Thanks Bob and Trey,
This was a fun assignment with the usual brutal deadline. The art was done using gouache and I did shoot photos for most of the reference material. It's the last automotive catalog that I illustrated as photography was taking over. I began doing more storyboard work after this period.
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