Dana Woulfe
About: A footwear designer for Converse, Dana’s work in apparel, print and environmental media utilizes the combination of his background in graffiti and his training in design and fine arts.
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January
Dana (www.illsideink.com) has been an artist since the days of finger paints and Saturday cartoons. He grew up in Rhode Island and studied illustration at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. While in Bean Town, Dana became entrenched in the local graffiti scene and was a founding member of Project SF, an international artist collective with its roots in street art and graffiti. His work with Project SF has graced the pages of magazines such as Under Pressure and Graphotism, and can be found throughout the northeast US and Canada.
Dana now lives and works in Boston, MA, where he ran his own design studio for several years. He’s now a footwear designer for Converse (www.converse.com), as well as a regularly exhibiting artist in Boston and beyond. In recent months, his work has appeared in various gallery shows and events in cities including New York and Montreal.
Dana’s work in apparel, print and environmental media utilizes the combination of his background in graffiti and his training in design and fine arts. The result is an exciting crossbreed of urban art and design.
He has been using Wacom products for several years in his artwork, and enjoys rendering hand-styles and various spray paint and brush effects because of the natural result derived from using a pen and tablet.
We’re excited to see how Dana brings his diverse background to this project.
I chose January because it symbolizes fresh starts and the anticipation that comes from a clean, blank slate. The highs and lows from the past year begin to fade and a feeling that anything is possible takes over. In New England, it is the start of a cold, snowy winter – a bright white canvas of possibility.
Looking through photos for reference material, I found some shots I took while snowboarding in Zermatt, Switzerland last March. I chose a few and combined them to create an interesting foundation and layer of texture. I then manipulated the color in the photos to reflect the cool blues that I associate with winter. With the background complete, I drew a series of hand-styles using the Wacom tablet and the chisel tip brush. I collaged these together with other shapes and letterforms drawn with my tablet in Illustrator and after some additional manipulation, I finalized ‘White Rider’.
Riding on the Matterhorn was an awesome experience and one that was creatively inspirational so I was happy to develop a collage that reflected the both the imagery and feeling of that time. This rendering of a rider sitting on a snowy mountain slope reflects the feeling of clarity and promise that a new year can bring.
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Good Luck
-Brian
cool!!!
Your fantastic art is become my desktop picture now.
Happy holidays to all!