Screen Shot

Here is a little happy find. I found this image "photo 9.jpg" stashed in a jobs folder from 2006. Since it has the same kind of center split as the poster below, i thought i'd put it up. It is a screen shot of an illustration in progress I created as part of the packaging for Chris Thile's album "How to Grow A Woman From the Ground". It was the first time for me working with a record label. I had complete artistic freedom to create anything I wanted. There was a song on the record that was titled "Christhile's Magic Bunny Ride" and I created this illustration in honor of that song. When I completed the image I sent it out for final approval and the next day I received an unrelated email saying that track 14 (christhiles magic bunny ride) was now called "The Eleventh Reel" and to please make all necessary changes. HAHA! We kept the image anyway, and later that song received a Grammy nomination for best bluegrass instrumental (of coarse it lost to Doc Watson. But hey, come on, it's Doc Watson!) Now that I look at this version of the bunnies, I kind of like it more then the one that made the booklet. Oh well. if you bought the actual cd you can be the judge.