The 80's

During the mid to late 80's I was freelancing for various animation studios, to fill in the weeks between gigs I began working on illustrations with my wife Ona, mainly on editorial magazine stuff and occasionally books and advertizing.
A recent house move has unearthed some of this old 80's art and I decided to post some just for fun.

This artwork of course, was made before computers and so for most of these, we used a mechanical printing approach, whereby we would supply the printers with the artwork separated up into layers.




Editorial illo for GH magazine round about 1987



This next batch was for Gourmet-Traveller magazine back in 1987 or so.
We did a fair amount of work for these folk back then, here are just some I picked out.
(Bit rough though.)



Local soviet dish?












This one was for a chapter heading in an educational book for Angus and Robertson wayback in 86.




The "Carnation" series was for a print ad campaign, there were six in total and all had to be done by hand and directly on the same bit of card, we used stencil masks to airbrush flat areas and light grads. It was a nightmare, any mistakes meant you had to start again, we patched a lot with paint overs but it was hard back then.....Helllloooo Photoshop.






This illo was for the American Express Magazine from around 1988 or so.
You can certainly tell what style was in vouge during that particular era.