It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. Mark Twain once said about GOLF. This was art I did for BUSINESSWEEK MAGAZINE.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
GOLF A good walk spoiled
It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. Mark Twain once said about GOLF. This was art I did for BUSINESSWEEK MAGAZINE.
ARE YOU TALKIN' TO ME?
Recognize him? He's the mascot logo for Linux software. A company wanted to satirize him for merchandizing. And I accepted the job. . 95% of the world population have PC computers, the rest like myself are MAC users. we are the ones with the high cool quotient
Midge, I think we have the wrong address!
Art for United airlines flight magazine. Article on Bohemia's love of Black clothing. Have you ever felt like the world was a finely tailored tuxedo and you were a pair of old brown shoes?
VIGNETTES OF VICE
Four of the 7 vices, children should stay away from. Take some time to indulge me in an interactive game. Match these titles to the respective monster (a)- JUST SAY"NO". Well, Maybe later. (b)-STOP TALKING TRASH (c)-YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME? (d)- I ONLY HAD ONE MARTINI, OFFICER!
multi-Tasker
llustration dealing with one of the various attention deficit disorders (ADD) . This art depicts frenzied multi-tasking. Commissioned by an ADD consultant and therapist who lectures thru out the country.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Holiday INN
This is an example of Vector art. I work with most software.
Don't you think this is quite clever to have each holiday icon in a dingy waiting room for their turn up at bat? It's rhetorical, folks. And yes, the punch clock that Cupid is at, does represent "labor Day'.(2 birds with 1 stone.) All the other holiday icons who are waiting for their spotlight are unemployed. Like a lot of illustrators are today. Due to stock art eroding art commissions, economy minded clients search for art as they would for bids on plumbing repair.
TOILET TOURNAMENT
YES, this was an actual job!!!!! A conservative magazine called Midwestern Living magazine, NO LESS!! An actual article about designer outhouses being judged in the midwest.. They went for my beauty contest idea. I thought they might find it sexist in objectifying women, but behold, they thought it was a great idea. Putting women's legs on a urinal seems distasteful to me. but I had to come up with an idea, ladies!!! It was a good concept in that I could actually depict the names of these outhouses in my art which were quite clever. And you too can have my fertile imagination at your disposal as well as my humor, sweat, and tears. Give me an advance in my Paypal account and I will be your graphic entertainer.
Pop goes the National Debt
Consumerism in America. Spiraling credit card debt, $700 Billion Bailout, MORTGAGE CRISIS, Gas guzzling Suv's (Hummers) parked in the driveway, big screen HD TV, ipod and cell phone for each son and daughter. No wonder they hate us in the Middle East.
A Cultivated WOMAN
WHO IS THIS? Sandra Day O'Connor, Barbara Bush, or Betty White you may ask? Wrong! My future mother-in-law. Boyfriends have certain obligations. If they are plumbers, they fix their girlfriend's toilets. If they are illustrators, they do portraits of their girlfriend's Mom.
OFFICE ROMANCE
Hark back in time when people found love the old fashion way, thru the workplace. Not on the internet Dating scene (Match.com) which is similar to Russian roulette with a mouse. Human wreckage can now meet other wreckage thru the touch of the send button. And fabricate any backstory about themselves they wish to tell the susceptible internet recipient. Also outdated photos taken 15 years ago and bolstering yearly salary by $15,000 to enhance the desirable profile. You get what you deserve, SINGLE PEOPLE!!!!.
My Children's Book
Children's book entitled MONSTER SANDWICH. About a boy who befriends his monster under the bed to make midnight snacks.
Commissioned Beatles POSTER
This poster was designed for a production celebrating the Fab Four's musical legacy. Full orchestra & Dance spectacular at the Patchogue Performing Arts Center in New York. see more at www.pfasolino.com
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
OPENMINDED
"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid, The ILLUSTRATOR.... must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor... He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. He is cynical yet idealistic, romantic yet full of despair, an essentially gentle man moving across the landscape of beauty, decadence and violence." APOLOGIES TO RAYMOND CHANDLER
Peter Fasolino illustrations cover the spectrum of Children's Books, Editorial and Advertising art as well as Caricature. Peter lives and works in New York City and, when not illustrating, spends his time pondering what part of the brain is responsible for compelling one to be an illustrator. The same part, perhaps, that persuades one to believe in the possibility of lasting peace in the Middle East, a Beatles reunion with the original members, O.J. Simpson's innocence, tolerable Adam Sandler movies, keeping the porchlight on for Jimmy Hoffa's return, health insurance for every American and a high six figure yearly salary due to buyers of Illustration who know good art when they see it.
Peter Fasolino illustrations cover the spectrum of Children's Books, Editorial and Advertising art as well as Caricature. Peter lives and works in New York City and, when not illustrating, spends his time pondering what part of the brain is responsible for compelling one to be an illustrator. The same part, perhaps, that persuades one to believe in the possibility of lasting peace in the Middle East, a Beatles reunion with the original members, O.J. Simpson's innocence, tolerable Adam Sandler movies, keeping the porchlight on for Jimmy Hoffa's return, health insurance for every American and a high six figure yearly salary due to buyers of Illustration who know good art when they see it.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
hey Pilgrim
Realistic protrait. Yes, I can do straight portraits. Ask me to see more of this style. For people who are under 30 and have never seen a black and white film and love insipid Adam Sandler movies, this is John Wayne. He was a star from the 30's to late 70's. He was an icon of conservative America that valued God and Ford Country Squire, wood-paneled station wagons(not necessarily in that order).. That's pretty arcane stuff,uh.
refrigerator magnet art
Don't get alarmed children book employers. I specialize in kid's books. This is a rare job I did for Iranian refugees living in Maryland. They wanted very inflammatory art damning the regime of Iran. I did not sign this art since I could become the Salman Rushdie of illustrators. Sentenced to death by Islamic fanatics due to Illustrating blasphemy. If I went into hiding, how could I promote my illustration and collect my checks? However, it might make engaging cocktail party banter, Am I entertaining you? FOLKS!
2 headed beast
I quite enjoyed doing this job with a Guru client. He thought that Kerry looked just like Gomer Pyle which never occurred to me before. He wanted me to somehow show the 2 in a situation. I thought of the Movie- Beast with 2 heads. A white racist and a Black man joined together at the hip. A campy horror film. Well done job. Wouldn't you say so, viewer? Are there any viewers out there? Does any of this even slightly amuse anybody? You, yes YOU! You're looking for a artist who can design a unicorn tattoo for your niece in Peoria? I can draw unicorns!! call me
Senor Samarai
restaurant logo. Wouldn't this art make a striking teeshirt. It's simplicity, fluidity of line and of course, the "colliding of cultures" humor. Woops,There I go again patting myself on the back with self admiration
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