Fine Art Website re-designed

I'm constantly looking for better ways to show my artwork. Well, I've spent considerable time re-designing and polishing my Fine Art website www.brennenmcelhaney.com

For those of you who are SEO savvy, I've added individual viewing pages for each work (instead of swapping out images on the same page.) The result, is a better looking, simplified, more intuitive and hopefully higher ranking website. Take a look for yourself!

If you have a moment, I'd love to hear feedback.

South Forest Beach - New painting from Hilton Head

While the kids played in the water, and built sand castles, I took a bit of time to work on a plein air painting of the beach. It's remarkable to observe how the sky changes throughout the day. In the morning the sky was perfectly clear, then as the day progressed, clouds formed on the horizon to the south east, and then relentlessly took over the sky.

I love painting out of doors, especially in a public place. I got to meet several folks, who were walking by, or riding bikes on the beach. There's something about painting on location that breaks down social barriers. I like that.

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"Steps to the Beach" Recent painting from Hilton Head

This past week my family had the pleasure of going down to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for a vacation. The company was fantastic (we vacationed with Hal and Stephanie Brown and family) and the weather was very nice. We got in lots of relaxing and playing in the sand and surf.

The house that we stayed in was wonderful - spacious, elegant and graciously appointed, and literally "steps to the beach." I painted a small work (8.5 x 13 inches) on gessoed watercolor paper, of the view down the boardwalk to the beach. The images show the progression and development of the painting, from the gesture to the finished piece. (Actually, in reverse order.)

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Rippy - Rough Animation

We're working on a teaser trailer for "It's About Time" (working title for movie by Oodles Unlimited LLC - with Kitty Cat Katie and Gracie, and friends.)

This one second sequence may be used in the trailer. It's fabulous fun to be a part of the team and see this project start to gain some serious momentum!

© 2009 Oodles Unlimited, LLC

Asheville Adventure Map

This is one of the coolest projects that I've gotten to work on lately. This is a very-close-to-final version of the Asheville Adventure Map which will be published in March and available as a free take-away at REI, the Mast General Store, and a bunch of other out-doorsey places.

The Heinzelmännchen Gnome

I recently got to re-tool the logo for the Heinzelmännchen Brewery in Sylva, NC. Their mascot is a merry little gnome, but as is the case with wee folk, he was giving them some trouble. So, I got to re-draw a color version of the little fellow, as well as a line art version for screen printing. Both are shown here for your amusement.

I learned the the vessel in his hand is called a "growler." - Cheers!