HVH2O: Costume Paddle

I was asked to create an illustration for a poster advertising HVH2O's Costume Paddle event. Entrants were encouraged to come in costume and/or decorate their paddle boards, kayaks and canoes. I had a lot of fun doing this, especially the visual research into other such events. Much to amusement, I saw that people really did paddle in their T-Rex costumes, so of course I had to add one to my illustration. 

Below is the final design of the poster.

HVH2O: Sea Shanty Jamboree

In 2019, HVH2O held a Sea Shanty Jamboree fundraiser. For the postcard advertising the event, I was asked to create an image showing the Half Moon on the Hudson River, passing by Bear Mountain. I was asked to show some paddlers alongside the ship. If you look closely, there is also a swimmer next to the paddleboarder. A giant sturgeon is leaping out of the water behind them.

Below is the postcard. The postcard was designed by Taryn Murphy.

HVH2O: Site Rendering

Along with two of his friends, my husband recently founded HVH2O, a paddle sports and environmental education non-profit organization. HVH2O stands for Hudson Valley Water (aka the Hudson River). He asked me to create an image that shows a visualization of what a permanent site for the organization could look like at the Peekskill Landing Park. The large structure at the right are kayak and storage lockers, along with a changing room, that HVH2O hopes to get funded through a grant. A previous version of this image didn't show the storage lockers, nor the logo. I patched those in recently. 

To create this, I made a pencil drawing that I scanned, printed out on watercolor paper, and then painted with watercolor. 

Here is what the early version of the HVH2O paddle sports center rendering looked like. Can you spot the differences?