Sunday, August 11, 2013

6th Drawer





                                                            
Party Animals
Photoshop
Exhibition Poster
2011
© Bill Basso
                  

FlatFiles


TGIF
Photoshop
2016
© Bill Basso







Garden Art
Photoshop
2013


















The Mummy Returns
Photoshop
2012
© Bill Basso
               
It is essential you floss EVERYDAY!
Photoshop
2013
© Bill Basso


OVERNIGHT CHARGE
Photoshop
Homage to Wm Steig's DR. DE SOTO
This texting-gone-app rodent is a mad scientist cousin
2013







                                
Gosh!
Photoshop
2013

© Bill Basso


Springs, democracy and other scary thoughts 
Photoshop
2013
© Bill Basso



Oh No, Not Again!
Photoshop
2013

© Bill Basso











Bovine Flatus Propellus
Photoshop
 Guest art promotion for Bryan Ballinger's ANIMAL GAS book
2013

FYI: Did you know that 20% of greenhouse gases are from cow exhausts




Sunday Bests
pen and Photoshop
2013 

© Bill Basso


GEEZER JOGGERS ROMP THROUGH HISTORICAL HAUNT
Photoshop

2013 © Bill Basso

Septuagenarians running through Old Tennent Church cemetery.
No whistling past the graveyard for these gritty, jovial guys as they stay ahead
of the grim reaper.



                                                MUD!  by Wendy Cheyette Lawson
                                                              pen and acrylic ink
                                                          Scholastic / Cartwheel
                                                                         2001


                                                                  E book 2011



  Nerdo the Magnificent
Photoshop
2011
©t Bill Basso





Guiding Lights
Photoshop
2012
© Bill Basso


Dragon Slayers Academy # 20
School's... Out Forever!
by Kate McMullan
interior art
pen and ink
Grosset and Dunlap
2011
please click on image to enlarge


L'ecole est finie! 

School's Out...Forever!

Dragon Slayers Academy #20 by Kate McMullan
cover art
acrylic and Photoshop
commissioned by
Gallimard Jeunesse / Folio Cadet 
2012



Dragon Slayers Academy: the 2011 French Version
cover art
acrylic inks
Grosset & Dunlap
2006-2007




Lizard Project
Photoshop
© Heinemann / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2013
please click on image to enlarge



Spring
Photoshop
2011
© Bill Basso


Pavement Artist
JAMES AND THE DINOSAURS by Doug Johnson
title page
pencil and acrylic
Atheneum
1995




Alphabet Picture Puzzle
Photoshop
Wireless Generation
2010




The Lion and The Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
winner of the Caldercott
Photoshop
personal work
2010
© Bill Basso



Space Junk
pen acrylic ink and Photoshop

original late 1990s
redone with Photoshop 2013




"Trick or Treat ?"
Esquire Magazine
1977


American Humor Show 
Poster
Japan Tour
1987


( I was very pleased to be included among such greats and to have my art
chosen for the poster was a real treat.
Notably missing from the group are two more of my favorite
fountains of inspiration:
George Booth and Gahan Wilson )









Scouting Swap Shop
pen and acrylic ink
Scouting Magazine
Boy Scouts of America
2001



Saturday, August 10, 2013

5th Drawer



There's No People Like Snow People
Photoshop

Greeting Card
2010

© Bill Basso




                                                             It's the Bioloigist's Birthday
                                                                          Photoshop
                                                                               2011
                                                                                                      © Bill Basso



BAT BONES AND SPIDER STEW by Michelle Poploff
pen and  acrylic ink
A Yearling First Choice Chapter Book
Bantam Doubleday Dell
1998

Things are not as they seem in the Balkans
pen and ink marker and watercolor
Esquire Magazine
1974


( I recall being inspired by Mark Alan Stamaty (WHO NEEDS DONUTS) and a H.S. classmate of mine, Ron Barrett ( OLD MACDONALD HAD AN APARTMENT HOUSE }
Both artists had an acute attention to humorous detail in their amazing art 
that really got me going at the time. )
                                                                                                      




TRUE BUT STRANGE by Christina Wilsdon
pen ink and acrylic inks
Kid City Magazine
CTW (Sesame Workshop)
1988-2000




"Hey man! This Amish Country?"
pen and ink marker and watercolor
Esquire Magazine
1977



TOP OF THE PIZZAS by Bill Basso
pen and ink, watercolor and 4 color overlays
Dodd Mead
1977
( My first book as an author during my big nose period.

To my surprise, it was enthusiastically reviewed by Gene Shalit on the Today Show. )






Alphabet Picture Puzzle
pen and watercolor
Puzzlemania
Highlights For Children
1996
                                                           What's Wrong With This Game
                                                                     pen and watercolor
                                                                      Kid City Magazine
                                                                           mid 1990s


A Chance Meeting of Princesses
pen and ink
DRAGON SLAYER'S ACADEMY by Kate McMullan
Grosset & Dunlap
2004





The Case Of The Stolen Jewels
Encyclopedia Brown Mystery 
by Donald J. Sobel
prismacolor pencil and watercolor
Boy's Life Magazine
Boy Scouts of America
1988


The Case of the Double Headed Toothbrush
Encyclopedia Brown Mystery
by Donald Sobel
prismacolor pencil and acrylic inks
Boy's Life Magazine
Boy Scouts of America
1989


Encyclopedia Brown
pencil and acrylic inks
Boy's Life Magazine
Boy Scouts of America
1999





EMBARRASSING MOMENTS IN SPORTS
pen and acrylic ink
Boy's Life Magazine
Boy Scouts of America
2000






Ben Franklin Picks Turkey For National Bird
pen and acrylic ink
TRUE BUT STRANGE by Christina Wilsdon
Kid City Magazine
CTW ( Sesame Workshop)
!988-2000


My Favorite Monsters
prismacolor pencil and acrylic ink
Boy's Life Magazine
Boy Scouts of America
1994


Outdoorsy Presidents
prismacolor pencil and watercolor
Boy's Life Magazine
Boy Scouts of America
early 1990s

( Presidents Truman, Ford, Bush Sr, Kennedy, T. Roosevelt,
Eisenhower and Carter )


CAMPAIGN '92
pen and acrylic ink
Weekly Reader
cover
1992

clockwise
Fr. Gov. Jerry Brown, Gov. Bill Clinton, Pres. George H. W. Bush,
Sen. Bob Kerrey, Sen. Tom Harkin, David Burke, Fr. Sen. Paul Tsongas,
Fr. Sen. Eugene McCarthy and Pat Buchanan 

ELECTION '92
pen and acrylic inks
Weekly Reader
cover
1992