BILLIE HOLIDAY OIL WASH & LAYOUT
Bille Holiday was an iconic bluesy/jazz singer with a career that spanned decades; cut short only due to her untimely death at the age of 44. Billie was ahead of her time. She used her fame to help fight for civil rights, injustice and equality, and though her fame brought stress to her life, which lead her to turn to drugs and alcohol, she never stopped fighting, even on the last day of her life. She is one to be remembered and celebrated, which is what I tried to capture here with this Oil Wash technique; using one oil paint color, black, white and mineral spirits. After the initial painting was finished, I brought everything into Photoshop for some added edits to enhance the overall image and create a blended background and add pops of golden yellow to complement the blue. The layout was then brought into a mockup to show a real-life application the artwork. The images were then brought into InDesign to create a layout spread as well as an album cover. Illustrator was used for Billie's signature. The layout for Billie Holiday spread won a silver Addy award at the Central Minnesota American Advertisement Federation as a student entry.
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