Ohara Hale

Well, every­one, I offi­cial­ly fin­ished all the work for my MFA yes­ter­day. I grad­u­ate on May 20! Now that I have more free time, I am plan­ning an over­haul of Brown Paper Bag’s design. Look for that at the end of the month!

If you’ve fol­lowed this blog for a peri­od of time you know my love for graphite. Not nec­es­sar­i­ly used to ren­der a draw­ing real­is­ti­cal­ly, but used in a dec­o­ra­tive way or as a means of express­ing emo­tion. The work of Ohara Hale (awe­some name!) does this. She uses dig­i­tal in my favorite way — lay­ing flat col­or behind drawings.

Hand let­ter­ing adds to the lev­el of absur­di­ty of Ohara’s draw­ings. It con­firms what we’re see­ing in the image, and leaves us no room to won­der if that dog is real­ly kiss­ing that mus­tard bot­tle (pas­sion­ate­ly, I might add).

All images via her Flickr. Check out her web­site, too!