WFM Artist Alley

New Store! It's been years!

2011-12-22T12:08:00.000-08:00

Here's the most overdue post of all! A new store (Plymouth Meeting, PA), a new co-artist (Kelly Franklin) and so much new art! Enjoy!

teachin' illustrator

2009-12-29T21:04:00.000-08:00

hey--just wanted to share some kick ass illustrator projects my students whipped out this year!

Mermaid Nancy

2009-08-11T20:05:00.000-07:00

This reference was partly stolen, and if you can't tell from where, I'm not tellin'! But I like this piece--was done pretty quickly, guess that's why.

The Great Java Board

2009-08-03T08:30:00.000-07:00

Photo by John Warner.

Coffee anyone? This board is hanging in the new Whole Foods Market in Annapolis, which opened this past May. The size alone was pretty intimidating, then to add all of that text, then to add an immediate deadline, Aaaaaahhhh! They say, "Sometimes it is best to grab the bull by the horns to see what you're really made of." I say, "Thanks bull, for the swift kick in the pants." - Laura Mazelis

Congrats Monica

2009-08-02T12:45:00.000-07:00

Monica Kelly, formerly of the North Wales, PA store, just got the Store Artist position at the Jenkintown, PA store! Gooo Monica!!

I will miss her immensely, but she definitely deserves the jump up. (And she's also just down the road ;)

Here's one of the last boards we did together:

Biggest Chalk Board ever.

2009-07-02T09:07:00.000-07:00

Check this out, I built this monstrous A-frame, the guy next to it works in produce and he is 6'5". This thing is huge haha!

New bunnies!

2009-04-17T09:11:00.000-07:00

Here are some art nouveau bunnies from Easter:

Tegan solo

Monica and Tegan combo

Pizza Cincinnati

2009-03-22T10:47:00.000-07:00

Sometimes it doesn't have anything to do with pizza, but it's fun.

White Lightning Chicken Chili Board

2009-03-22T10:44:00.000-07:00

Passover Poster

2009-03-09T18:47:00.000-07:00

I am so intimated posting anything here, everyone is so talented. Really great work guys. I don’t do a lot of chalkboards at Old Town, I mostly do posters. Here’s the Passover endcap I created for the grocery department. I used the WFM woodcuts for the flowers and illustrated the rest. This was done in Illustrator and Photoshop.

And here‘s one of my old chalkboards:

Mike in Meat

2009-03-07T09:05:00.001-08:00

Presenting Mike Richards in our meat department. Don't let the cleaver fool ya, he's really a lamb!

Pirate Ray, Matey!

2009-02-15T10:16:00.000-08:00

Another one from the amazing Monica:
This is our Grocery ATL, Ray, as a pirate. For a good reason, of course.
Aye aye, Cap'n!

Rainbow Ladies

2009-01-25T12:08:00.000-08:00

Here are portraits of the female persuasion....You'd think I took a course in the Lisa Frank school of art when looking at these!

First is Nancy Jane, a Whole Body buyer, which Monica co-artisted with me in the illustrating. (Yes. I know co-artisted is not a word.)

Second is Nicole, by far the pertiest seafood team member we have!

She's Alive!!!

2009-01-25T05:51:00.000-08:00

..and thriving... Here's what Candace is up to out in Cupertino. By the way, she said it rains there, too.

Salmon

2009-01-23T14:41:00.000-08:00

Here's a fishy I did, it's some crazy salmon, enjoy.

my blue, or I mean, portrait period

2009-01-10T13:11:00.000-08:00

So, after many encouraging words to do some, I decided to do a full blast portrait theme throughout the store. Team members are the subjects, and as you can see below, even Monica did a trippy one of Will, our Grocery Team Leader...to go along with our Hemp Milk and Annie's Tie Dye Fruity Bunnies Cereal.

These aren't the greatest reference pics, and I am working on more portraits as I type this, but here you go!

Giant A-Frames--Mon Dieu.... Or, Holy Giant A-Frame Batman!!

2009-01-10T12:30:00.000-08:00

A special present from my STL--we're making the most of it...

It might be a good thing to have a giant blank canvas as an artist, but when the canvas weighs several hundred pounds, takes 6 MEN to lift it, (and you say, just leave it where it is & I'll do it outside, BUT it's WINTER here in the northeast)...It leaves you with a dry mouth.

Welcome Monica,

2009-01-10T11:27:00.000-08:00

And with a sunset, follows a sunrise. We welcome Monica Kelly to North Wales, as the new "co-artist", as Candace coined it. She is an Illustration alum from Savannah College of Art & Design, and she also enjoys freelance painting, design & illustration on the side.

Monica is very happy to get paid to fart around with chalk markers here and there, and with no further ado, here they are:

Au Revoir Mon Cherie!

2009-01-05T07:51:00.000-08:00

So, many chalkboards have come and gone, and so have many store artists here at North Wales. My chalk-mate, Candace, has up and jet-set to the west coast (San Fran, specifically) to reside there permanently. I miss her sorely, but here are some of her last boards with us!

--Candace will hopefully be posting her own Cali stuff when she gets around to it!

Busy with baby, but the team is back!

2008-08-13T14:54:00.000-07:00

So I'm welcoming my son, Gabriel Joseph to the blog, as he hopefully one day will learn to enjoy and appreciate art...Along with learning to walk and talk, too.

Candace was here holding the fort down and polishing her chalky style at the same time. Take a look at what she's been up too:

Mighty Winter

2008-01-11T08:51:00.000-08:00

Long time, no blog.

Here are some recent boards from your chalk marker wielding friends at North Wales!

October Boards

2007-10-25T11:13:00.000-07:00

Some more October Boards. Candace and I worked on a Norse Mythology theme around the store.

Enjoy-We'd love to hear what you think

Tegan

Helloo there!

Working hard, but hardly working...on chalkboards

2007-10-13T09:45:00.000-07:00

I have a new chalkboard artist buddy here at North Wales. Her name is Candace and she hails from Stroudsburg, PA. She's a talented painting major at Tyler School of Art and loves, as tiring as it is, to have an artsy job while she's in school. I'm so happy she's here because we have so much fun sharing the duties of the wfm chalkboard artist!

Here are the last few projects that we've pumped out (Can you tell our styles apart?):

Recent Stuff

2007-08-08T11:05:00.000-07:00

Rockin' the Rockfish!

An earlier produce board

2007-07-24T11:26:00.000-07:00

Just a stone fruits board. I was so torn with whether or not I should outline the fruits. I'm a real stickler for not outlining, but I'm starting to incorporate that more. What do you think? Does it need it?

Welcome King Tut Exhibit to Philly!

2007-07-20T06:28:00.001-07:00

A little late to post (just got my camera running again!).

Cooler Bag & Local Hummus

2007-07-20T05:12:00.000-07:00

Had fun with these! I will post my large boards later! Tegan, your carousel is great! I love how you are loosening up and your font work is tremendous! Keep up the good work...

Carnivale!

2007-07-11T12:27:00.000-07:00

The first of my hot summer carnival series! Whaddya think? I really loosened up by the end, (how I usually paint), but all that darn mathmatic design to that ferris wheel. Phew!

Build a Better Hotdog

2007-06-28T10:06:00.000-07:00

I've been working on improving my chalkboard art. Got some imspiration from some of Tegan's work. Though not nearly as intense, I'm proud of it and figured I'd show it off. And maybe it'll inspire someone during this Amazing Race thing we're doing.

great idea!

2007-05-28T11:12:00.000-07:00

Hey Tegan- This is terrific- just not sure how this all works. It looks like I successfully got the images on the blog. Check out the bottle. First attempt at any such 3d display. Made from chicken wire, strips of cloth with plaster - lots of work with my back-up artist, Dan Angel. Its about 4' high, so its pretty noticeable! Not too pleased with the end product - a bit rough, I think. Next time, hope to improve technique. Any suggestions out there? Second picture is just drawings of cornstalks on window. I used poster paint. It was a bit runny. Probably will use markers next time.

Officially off my rocker.

2007-05-22T12:49:00.000-07:00

What was I thinking??....Well, it does stay up all summer, at least!

Great Website!

2007-05-17T12:42:00.000-07:00

Hey y'all,

I wanted to share this great website on 50's period advertising art. It's called:

www.plan59.com

Check it out! There's so much stuff on there. I was going to do a 50's art theme to my next round of boards, and it's helped me find so many great artists to look up.

~T

2007-05-14T07:07:00.000-07:00

What a great idea! I will have to look through my archives for some new stuff to post! Thanks Tegan for putting this together!
Katie

Shrimpies!

2007-05-11T12:17:00.000-07:00

This is a test image post.

Check out my shrimpie!

Welcome to WFM Artist Alley

2007-05-11T10:16:00.000-07:00

Greetings friends!

I thought that we could all use a place to interact and share images, good websites, ideas, and other WFM artist fun. Since email is nice, but limiting and personal, I thought a blog would be a better way to facilitate group interaction. So, wecome to our new secret hideout!

It's my intention that we all can use this spot to keep in touch, show off our work/critique, have friendly rants, and most importantly, work through artists' block.

Since we will most likely be checking in to this blog on WFM time, it is important that we keep our topics pertaining to work, and don't waste company time. This blog is meant to be a tool to help all our WFM artist friends and help us create better artwork at work.

You'll have to create a blogger account to post, but don't hesitate to email me with any questions if you have trouble.

Happy blogging!

~T