Gina Triplett

Studio Decorating

2012-01-27T11:19:00.000-08:00

Whole Foods Better Bags

2012-01-18T08:44:00.000-08:00

Here's a collection of reusable bags I worked on with Whole Foods. Drawings by me, design by Whole Foods.

Society of Illustrators 54

2011-12-08T08:34:00.000-08:00

I had two pieces selected for The Society of Illustrators Annual, very happy and honored! Here is one of them.

Clouds-n-Daisies

2011-10-11T09:31:00.000-07:00

Here's a recent spread we did for Computerworld Magazine. Thanks to April Montgomery for doing such a great job with the layout and making our artwork look nice.

Rug Design for NuLoom

2011-09-29T06:09:00.000-07:00

We love getting samples in the mail, here's a project I worked on over the summer in collaboration with NuLoom Rugs. Wes is very excited to break this in with some long afternoon sunbeam naps.

Paint Time

2011-07-28T06:02:00.000-07:00

I took a little break from the computer and decided to work on a painting Matt had started awhile back. It felt good to get messy again.

Beach Time

2011-07-26T18:22:00.000-07:00

Barbara Kingsolver

2011-07-14T08:28:00.000-07:00

We love getting samples in the mail. Here's a recent book project we worked on for a Barbara Kingsolver book. We'd love to read it except we don't know Italian.

Art Director: Giacomo Callo

Designer: Susanna Tosatti

Hello Paris!

2011-06-08T08:19:00.000-07:00

We took a little trip to Paris that turned out to be pretty magical. Tasty food, fun times with the family and a nice break from work. We're back in Philly now and fully recharged and ready to take on the studio again. I'm a little behind on e-mails but promise to get back to you all very soon.

Weeds

2011-05-17T19:29:00.000-07:00

Here's a recent cover I worked on with Allison Saltzman from Ecco/Harper Collins.

When I received the initial call for this project I happened to be standing in my parents garden which happened to have a fair amount of weeds (sorry Dad, I know its not your fault...just a weedy season!) anways, I was immediately inspired and was happy to have such a magnificent array of reference material at my fingertips. Thanks to Allison for being such a great art director, and to my Dad for having a fantastically weedy section of his garden.

Surtex '11

2011-05-14T18:52:00.000-07:00

Matt and I will be at showing our work at Surtex this year. Feel free to swing by booths

#345-347 to say hello.

Daily Drop Cap

2011-05-10T13:02:00.000-07:00

Awhile back the fantastically talented Jessica Hische invited us to be part of her Special Guest Alphabet for Daily Drop Cap. She gave us the letter J (for Juniper) and we went to work. Here is the end result. Thanks to Jess for inviting us to be part of her very cool project. Click here to see more.

Latest Book Cover

2011-04-28T10:58:00.000-07:00

Matt and I recently had the pleasure of working on a book cover with Duncan Baird Publishers in the UK. We just received our copy in the mail, thanks to Billy Wagar for doing such a nice job with the design and making our mail box happy.

Washington Post

2011-04-25T11:23:00.000-07:00

Here's an illustration we did for a children's poetry section of the Washington Post.

Pals

2011-04-24T18:56:00.000-07:00

Wes and Juniper in the garden.

Blue Q Bag

2011-04-20T08:06:00.000-07:00

Sunny Side Up Shoulder Tote for Blue Q.

Thanks to the wonderful art directors and designers at Blue Q for making this

collaboration happen.

NY Book Show

2011-04-19T11:03:00.000-07:00

This book cover recently won a merit award at the New York Book Show.
Thanks to David Caplan over at Little, Brown and Company for his most
excellent design skills.

Spring...

2011-04-07T18:40:00.000-07:00

We are still waiting for spring to make an official appearance here in Philadelphia. I finally finished this piece with the hopes of helping it along.

Ink, Paint, and Coffee

2011-04-05T08:12:00.000-07:00

Painting With My Pals

2011-04-01T06:33:00.000-07:00

Whole Foods Better Bag

2011-03-30T08:02:00.000-07:00

One of my latest collaborations with Whole Foods, a Better Bag (the tomatoes are my
part of the collaboration). It's been fun to spot people carrying the bag around town.

Thinking of Spring

2011-02-28T07:37:00.000-08:00

Snow Day!

2011-01-27T10:44:00.000-08:00

New Limited Edition SmartWool Socks

2011-01-10T13:02:00.000-08:00

Just in time for the chilly weather, new SmartWool Socks.

Here we have my two top notch studio assistants helping me out with the design process.

Thanks to SmartWool for another fun project.

Daily News

2011-01-04T09:20:00.000-08:00

We were recently included in an article about local artists who paint food:

Daily News

Here's a sampling of a few food inspired paintings:

Matt has a more in depth post on his Drawger blog.

Happy New Year!

2011-01-01T10:52:00.000-08:00

Minnesota '10

2010-12-29T09:16:00.000-08:00

Holiday igloo. I heart MN.

Happy Holidays!

2010-12-15T11:16:00.000-08:00

Over the past few weeks we had the pleasure of working with Lisa Schreiber of the Washington Post. Here is the cover art for the Holiday Happenings insert.

You can see additional images on Matt's Drawger blog.

Personal Work...

2010-11-04T08:56:00.000-07:00

Personal work has taken the back burner since Lady Juniper has come into our life. We've been focusing mostly on commissioned work for the past two years (diapers are expensive!) but managed to eek this piece out in between everything else.

Matt has more image details on his Drawger blog: http://www.drawger.com/matt/?article_id=11416

November Walk

2010-11-02T11:11:00.000-07:00

Today we decided to ditch the studio and went for a nice, long walk in the park. Totally worth it.

Happy Halloween!

2010-10-31T21:07:00.000-07:00

Spanish Vogue Kids

2010-10-04T08:40:00.000-07:00

Spanish Vogue Kids ran an article about artist parents and their kids (at least that's what I think its about) and we were happy to be included.

SmartWool Limited Edition

2010-04-27T21:53:00.001-07:00

Over the past year I've been collaborating with SmartWool to create a line of limited edition of socks for the Spring '10 season. The experience was great and I can't say enough nice things about the people at Smartwool. Thank you to Mercedes Marchand for making this happen.

It's always fun to get samples in the mail, Juniper thought it was pretty cool too. Here she is taking inventory...

...and making sure they fit (i think she still has some growing to do).

The socks are part of SmartWool's Gallery collection. If interested, you can find them here at: www.smartwool.com

The Mockingbirds

2010-04-21T06:28:00.000-07:00

Cover art for The Mockingbirds, design by David Caplan at Little Brown Books.

Fun in the Kitchen

2010-03-31T06:54:00.000-07:00

Awhile back I worked on a project with Cookie Magazine and Jenny Rosenstrach to create hand painted kitchen recipe doors. The process involved Jenny sending me a few of her favorite recipes as well as her kitchen cabinet door. The first step was priming the back of the door with a few coats of paint. Once this was complete I did a general layout sketch to make everything would fit a.ok. The next step was to hand lettering the recipes. So fun! I tried to keep the look somewhat loose in order to keep the feel of recipe cards. I also scattered little drawings here and there to jazz things up a bit. You can read more at http://www.dinneralovestory.com/2010/02/03/the-recipe-door/

Shopping List:

2010-03-22T07:49:00.000-07:00

Matt found this while cleaning the studio, I think it pretty much sums up last year.

Hello, It's Been Awhile...

2010-03-14T20:43:00.000-07:00

We've been keeping very busy around here and for some reason I never seem to get everything done on my to-do list....blogging, doing dishes and washing my paint brushes have definitely been on the back burner. But hey! it's March of 2010 and I'm turning a new leaf (or at least that's what I'm telling myself). Here's a little update from the past few months.

August '09

This past August the very nice people from Philadelphia Magazine came to take pic's of our humble abode for the Fall/Winter Issue of Home Magazine. It was a fun experience and our house has never looked so clean. Photos by Trevor Dixon, Styling by Barbara Botting, Article by Lauren McCutcheon.

Nov '09

Juniper turns one! We love this little lady more than words can say.

Even though she's really not a fan of sleeping at night (or during the day) we find her to be a very diligent studio assistant. Once she learns how to make us coffee we'll be set.

We've been working on lots of projects in the studio. One particularly fun one was a Journal for Chronicle Books. Thanks to Kristen Hewitt for being so much fun to work with...and for doing such a nice job with the design.

Jan. - Feb. '10

Lots of snow in Philadelphia. Lots and lots and lots!

Studio Renovating

2009-07-27T12:49:00.001-07:00

These are the "before" pics. Hoping to soon add the "after's".

8 Months

2009-07-13T12:25:00.000-07:00

Baby Juniper is eight months old. Eight whole months, I can't believe it!

Minnesota '09

2009-07-10T19:43:00.000-07:00

We're back from a little Minnesota trip. We had lots of fun visiting with family, picking strawberries, meeting new babies, running from mosquitoes, eating from the garden and much much more. Can't wait for the next visit...which will most likely involve a coating of snow.

Summer...At Last!

2009-06-23T11:29:00.000-07:00

It's been awhile since I've posted here, baby Juniper and studio deadlines have been keeping me on my toes. Now that summer has finally arrived and M doesn't have classes to teach we're starting to fall into a day to day studio routine again. Fun! This also has to do with having some pretty great b-sitters.

My Desk

2009-02-16T17:25:00.000-08:00

I have to admit I'm not super great at washing my paintbrushes....or putting the caps back on the paint bottles. This little habit started back in my college days and now I'm so used to my paints being slightly dried out it's the way I like my paint best. A day or two with the cap off and the paint is at its prime.

Winter Walk

2009-02-06T08:25:00.000-08:00

More Snow...

2009-02-04T18:54:00.001-08:00

...S. Philly style of course.

Oldie but Goodie

2009-01-29T21:24:00.001-08:00

Last year we worked on a fun collaboration painting commission for James which is an amazing restaurant in the Bella Vista neighborhood of Philadelphia. We've been meaning to put these pic's up on our website for awhile now but haven't yet gotten around to it, so I figured this might be a good place to start.

Matt and Wes stretching the canvas.

Here we have Matt painting away...just in case you're wondering, he does the more realistic glazed sections and I do the others. And yeah, I know, my studio is messy.

Hanging the painting.

...and last but not least, we reward ourselves with a tasty meal from the restaurant. So good.

Snow Day

2009-01-28T07:47:00.000-08:00

Who doesn't love a snow day? Here's a pic from my studio window and also one of Juniper getting ready for a walk. We didn't get a lot of snow...not like the snow I grew up with in MN, but it's still enough to celebrate with hot chocolate.

New Shoes

2009-01-27T11:16:00.000-08:00

New Art

2009-01-26T07:40:00.001-08:00

Dave and Joyce (the fantastic designers/illustrators at Spur ) sent this amazing baby gift for Juniper, we can't wait to find the perfect spot to hang it. Thanks Dave and Joyce, you guys are the best!

Saturday is Market Day

2009-01-24T13:11:00.001-08:00

Italian Market South Philadelphia.

Oh hey...

2009-01-22T18:04:00.000-08:00

...look what I found sitting on my couch!

Step by Step

2009-01-22T07:09:00.001-08:00

Painting for a journal project I worked on last year with Chronicle Books.

Van Art

2009-01-21T08:42:00.001-08:00

Van art for Goose Lane Gardens.

It's a New Day

2009-01-20T11:12:00.000-08:00

Inauguration of Barack Obama.

Line Skis

2009-01-20T07:03:00.000-08:00

We worked on a fun project with Line Skis and were excited to get samples in the mail. Check your local slope to see if you can spot them for yourself.

Baby Juniper

2009-01-19T19:53:00.000-08:00

We've been keeping very busy since the arrival of Juniper in mid-November, she's slowly but surely getting used to life in the studio and especially likes sitting with me in her sling while I work on the computer. Now if I could just get her to hold a paintbrush.....

Hello

2009-01-19T19:41:00.000-08:00

Hello, Welcome to the blog of Gina Triplett and Matt Curtius. We're artists, and put work related things on our other website. This is our place for the other things in our lives. That said, we're workaholics, so some of that will probably creep in here as well.