Kevin Harris Illustration and Surface Designs

Kevin Harris is an illustrator and textile designer. He works digitally, as well as traditionally. Art making tools and techniques include Adobe tools and other digital drawing applications, as well as watercolor painting, screenprinting, paper and fabric dying, and many forms of drawing. Color theory and trend applications, are of deep interest in his work.

In this little booklet the first 10 pages show digital work, while most of the following artwork is a mix of traditional and digital.

artist printing silk yardage in his studio.

Above: Procreate portrait.

Right: Portrait study against a brick wall, Adobe Fresco.

All above portrait studies are dawn digitally, with attention to the Loomis and / or Bridgman drawing methods.

Digital drawings using the live brush sets (watercolor brushes) available in Adobe Fresco.

Bellow left: Poppy, Adobe Illustrator. and Walk Among Us, Paper cutout, and photo screenprinted imagery created, then finished in Photoshop. Right: Mountain watercolor landscapes styled in Adobe Photoshop.

Above right and left: Mountain landscapes, digital rake brushes.

Above: Bearded Iris, Adobe Illustrator.

Right: two watercolor florals; Poppies and Tulips. All work on this page is set up as a repeating surface design pattern.

Above: Tugboat watercolor. Arranged in Photoshop.

Right: Working Boats watercolor pattern, assembled in Photoshop

Above: Trapezoid, watercolor. Right, Lightning design watercolor. Left bottom: Repeating geometric pattern, watercolor and Photoshop.

Above and right: examples of dye on paper and silk, then, arranged in Photoshop.

Lower: watercolor paintings colorized in Photoshop.

Three examples of designs for scarves, all watercolor or ink, arranged in Photoshop.

Left: Toy packaging design, in repeat, Adobe Illustrator. Above: scarf design for the Boston ICA.

Lower right: Ink Rose for Style Council NYC, then, UPC, paper cut-out illustration for Tikkun Magazine.

Left: Rabbit and Snake, and Roots paper cut-out, and screenprinted, promotional postcards.

Right: three paper cut-out, editorial illustrations for Tikkun Magazine.

Above: Paper cut-out section cover for the San Francisco Bay Guardian