Pat Kinsella's Blog

Moving to Tumblr

patkinsella — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:06:54 +0000

This is going to be my last post on this blog, from now on I will post everything over at http://patkinsella.tumblr.com/

This image was for the Chronicle of Higher Education with the great Ellen Winkler. It was for a piece about a man looking back on his life and career as he reached retirement… it seemed appropriate for the last post here.

Rodents

patkinsella — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:00:25 +0000

These three pieces are for a friend of mine who’s family makes a strobe light sort of thing that you put in your attic to drive off rodents that live in there… much better than setting traps or poison or something. I think I’d like to draw animals for every job if I could.

Have a good one!

Wired Word Bubbles

patkinsella — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:19:33 +0000

This is in the current issue of Wired. I like how it turned out and it’s also pretty cool when you see it on the iPad version because they animated the word bubbles to pop up nicely.

Wall St. Journal

patkinsella — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:47:39 +0000

This piece was in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. I don’t normally show my sketches here but I thought I’d show how this one happened for a change. They sort of had to reel me in a few times with this one, I had one with boats and fish, airplanes getting their wings sawed off and all kinds of stuff. I also did this one with the little Napoleon and the big horse, then after going through a few other more business like ideas with bookshelves and quicksand and whatnot we came back to the stools, this time with the big chair and desk. I wasn’t able to pick up a copy of the paper but this is part of the pdf they gave me of how it came together.

Have a good one!

Accident

patkinsella — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:17:39 +0000

During all the hurricane fun I did this piece for Adirondack Life. It is a full page piece for an excerpt out of Joe Connelly’s new book. Originally they hired me because they wanted a montage or comic book like page with many people getting the signal that there was an accident in the woods and heading out the door to help. So it was a bit unexpected that we went this direction with it, but I’m thrilled we did.

(You might have to click on the image to see it properly)

Investment Advisor

patkinsella — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:34:08 +0000

Hey folks,

This is a series of images about stress in relation to clients and the workplace and whatnot for Investment Advisor magazine.

sunset

patkinsella — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:15:09 +0000

Hooray for Obama again!!

I have been super busy lately and have gotten woefully behind in my blogging, I’ll try to fix that… This is another spread for Backcountry magazine with ad Mike Lorenz, it’s just a mockup but you get the idea of how it will look in print. I’ve really been enjoying working on these lately and playing with so much snow texture.

Have a good one!

Geronimo

patkinsella — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:41:04 +0000

Like what we did with Amelia Earhart a few weeks back, my chums Erin and Joe decided we should draw Geronimo this time. You can see theirs on their blogs… Erin, Joe

More skiing

patkinsella — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:43:03 +0000

Another spread for Backcountry Magazine. It’s been interesting working on all these, dealing with lots of snow and page layout jazz. This is a screenshot from my photoshop file so you can see roughly how it comes together. Also there is closeup so you can actually see whats going on in there.

Cool Mamma

patkinsella — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:36:33 +0000

I did this piece recently for and essay in Backcountry Magazine. I didn’t have to make up much of anything to make this awesome, they really brought their kids up on the mountain and obviously the kid got hungry.

and if you want to get a better look up in her business…