Eclipse Gum landscape - what a beautiful sight!

I was recently asked by Ryan Chicago to do 2 illustrations for a display to feature Eclipse gum car cups.

One was for the top portion of the display, showing the view through a car windshield  onto an imaginary landscape, where the middle line of the road was made out of pellets of gum - yum!

The other one was for the side of the display, showing another landscape with a big illustration of the car cup hovering over the road.

The side illustration was made into a lenticular (a print that appears to move when viewed from different angles) Pretty cool! 

I never saw the finished, printed display, but was told, it can be seen all over the US at different Walmart locations (it didn't make it to our local Walmart on Maui, unfortunately. I walked through every isle, but could not find it :-(   )

Working on this project for Ecplise gum was a lot of fun! 

I enjoy coming up with landscapes, with cute little houses, rolling hills, beautiful skies and puffy clouds. When I work on a project as this one, I get a feeling of wanting to be there myself, driving down that road, getting out of the car and jumping through soft pillows of grass and probably picking up some of the gum pellets to chew on while I am there.

What a beautiful sight!

I wonder if a lot of illustrators know this feeling: when working on an illustration, you somehow create a second reality for yourself. You are so focused on the project, that you feel you are there yourself. This is quite a wonderful aspect of being an illustrator.  I guess this is also part of the reason why I am not into creating illustrations for horror stories.

I got some beautiful feedback from the client:

" By the way, I would like to let you know that the illustrations were

beautiful, with everyone at the client and here at the shop oohing and ahhing over them. Anne did a great job! It's getting a lot of praise from both the Wrigley client and the Walmart folks, so well done! "  

It always feel so good to hear nice feedback!

To see larger images of the two illustrations, you can go to my portfolio at www.annewertheim.com, "Portfolio 2" and "Food and Product" gallery.

I only worked on the cup holder on this one, not the cup in it.

Ravensburger Puzzles

They are finally here!

Last year I worked on a series of different puzzles and toy boxes for Ravensburger Germany.
My samples finally arrived in the mail a few days ago. They had to travel quite a ways, across two oceans and one continent to get here.
It is certainly always delightful, to open a box and see your work printed and put to good use.

I am still waiting to receive the puzzle ball though.
I was able to find a product shot online. I love how my illustration wraps around the globe. It is looking great! It is still a mystery to me, how you can print something on a curved piece of plastic. Ravensburger did a great job!

 Here we have three puzzle kids/kittens hard at work: