New print release: this week the Working Proof is teaming up again with artist Madame Lolina to bring you the print Red Riding Hood to benefit the Kids in Need Foundation. This is the second time we have worked with Madame Lolina and once again she didn’t disappoint. Just like in her previous print release Communion_My Unicorn, Madame Lolina’s print Red Riding Hood has an undeniable quality of fantasy. I also really love the idea of female power inspired by a classic tale:

In this artwork, all of the red-hooded little girls from the whole nation gather and make an alliance – to resist the wolf and protect themselves.  I wanted to express the strong and determined will of the little, weak girls to protect themselves against a violent and cruel enemy by relying on one another.

Madame Lolina has chosen to pair with the Kids in Need Foundation because that some children don’t have sufficient educational opportunities is entirely the responsibility of grown ups.

New print release: this week we are bringing you a beautiful floral print, Bellina Garden, by artist Azul De Corso to benefit the Pablove Foundation. I love how the tiny images of flowers and greenery come together to form what feels like an abstract geometric pattern. I go back and forth between being more interested in the tiny floral components, or the overall image of pattern and color.

Illustration is part of a constant artistic search to merge drawing with technological tools, to explore and reinvent reality by creating spaces close to nature and full of feelings. Azul tries to awaken worlds within the viewer, using the repetition of shapes and colors as the trigger within the work.

Azul has chosen to pair with the Pablove Foundation because of her own small children and her empathy for the suffering of a family with a sick child.

This print is available in multiple sizes. It was digitally signed by the artist. The 8×10 and 11×14 prints are numbered by The Working Proof, and the 16×24, 24×30, and 30×40 prints come with a numbered Certificate of Authenticity. Learn more here. Read our interview with Azul De Corso here. You can buy the print here.

New print release: this week the Working Proof is teaming up with New York artist Jonathan Brierley to bring you his photograph Wilderness New York to benefit Bowery Mission. I have a personal connection to this photograph, I was visiting the city when the storm Nemo hit and it truly was hauntingly beautiful.

New print release: this week the Working Proof is teaming up with artist Marta Slawinska to bring you her work Riding to benefit Show Hope. I really enjoy the free and lightheartedness of this work. It really evokes all of the emotions Marta intended:

This artwork was inspired by a drawing by an outsider artist from 1810. It displays my need for freedom. Riding a horse in the middle of nowhere with some surreal flowers is the opposite of my life in the city. First of all, there is a lot of space and action, with lots of greenery and no humans. My life in the city is grey and full of negative emotions. I miss this primitive contact with nature.

Marta has chosen to pair with Show Hope because of its movement to care for orphans – there is nothing worse than the lack of a family.

New print release: this week we are teaming up with Cory Say to bring you his print 1 Corinthians 13:4 to benefit Bowery Mission. I love the simplicity of this text print. The soft calligraphy inspired script and bold color create an almost meditative feel. I also enjoyed reading about Cory’s inspiration for the work:

This piece is special to me. I wanted to do something special for my wife, so I illustrated her favorite verse from the Bible. I wanted to capture the beautiful description of Love in this verse. To do that, I chose to hand draw the type in script.

Cory chose the Bowery Mission because of his belief that the Bowery Mission has embodied this verse by providing for the needy.

New print release: this week, the Working Proof is following up with artist Kyu Hwang. to bring you the second Cloud print in his Cloud Series, to benefit Doctors Without Borders. Check out the photo below for a sampling of the entire series.

(image of other prints from “cloud series”) See a note about this series from The Working Proof below. 

I personally love the combination of the melancholy grey clouds with colorful raindrop that seems to pop up throughout the series, something Kyu addresses in his second interview with the Working Proof:

I’m not trying to talk specifically about sadness. I think the clouds can mean something different for each viewer. I often relate them to memories and a sense of longing for the past, so maybe they are a little melancholic.

Kyu is once again pairing with Doctors Without Borders because they address one of the most basic needs for people that have no access to medical care.
This print is available in multiple sizes. It was digitally signed by the artist. The 8×10 and 11×14 prints are numbered by The Working Proof. Learn more here. Read our interview with Kyu Hwang here. You can buy the print here.

“Cloud” is a part of an on-going series, unofficially titled “cloud series.” I’m interested in the ever-changing quality of clouds and how that quality translates into a static image.

New print release: this week the Working Proof is teaming up with artist Sarah Burwash to bring you her print The Fox Sisters to benefit Victory Junction. I enjoyed finding out through Sarah’s interview that there is an interesting history story behind this print:

The Fox sisters were three sisters who played an important role in the creation of Spiritualism. The Fox sisters were born in a small farming community, Consecon (near Belleville), Ontario. Last winter I attended a residency near this community and was researching the area, more specifically notable women who settled in the back woods of that area in the early 1800s, such as Susanna Moodie. I came across the Fox sisters in my research and was intrigued and decided to make some drawings around their enticing story.