Mixed Media Art Contest: 2nd place winner

I was the first loser on artwanted.com! 10 bucks to pay the bills with.

Mixed Media Art Contest: Jun 22 - Jul 5, 2009 | ArtWanted.com

I'm looking for a Summer Intern

I have posted on CollegeCentral.com with SCAD an internship position available at Jay Montgomery Illustration. If interested please apply by email to jay@jaymontgomery.com and send your resume and portfolio or link to your website or samples of your work directly to me.

Description:
I'm an award winning freelance Illustrator for over 18 years and currently a professor of Illustration at SCAD Atlanta. I'm looking for an Illustration, Graphic Design or Sequential major or alumni from SCAD that has a passion for illustration of all types and the willingness to learn on the job. This would be for Monday and Wednesday for about 3-4 hours a day depending on the current freelance workload. Must provide your own transportation to NE Marietta, GA. Tasks include researching for reference, thumbnail sketches, scanning and concepts of real world current freelance jobs. Also, general organizing and cleaning up studio. I have big task of digitally organizing, adding keywords and uploading my 500+ stock art collection to an illustrator friendly stock art web site. Learn hands on about the business being a freelance illustrator; negotiating, pricing, client communication, promotion and having fun! To see the variety of work that I do please visit my website at http://www.jaymontgomery.com

Intern skills needed:
Dependable, on time, excellent communication skills, competent on the Mac, drawing skills, Photoshop, internet research skills, Knowledge about Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Flash, Filemaker Pro and Word are a big plus. This internship could be apart of your curriculum at SCAD and is unpaid.

Schedule:
Start ASAP until August 26th, 2009 Most every Monday and Wednesday as needed.

Place:
The home/studio of Jay Montgomery Illustration - 290 Vistawood Dr. Marietta, GA 30066.

Thanks,

Jay

Spiritual Connections

It's been a while since I was an official student of the arts. Since 2000 I have been a teacher of the arts. Well I started the journey of getting my MFA so that I could have the opportunity to teach full-time at a college level. The logical and most practical choice was to get my MFA from the place I teach, SCAD-Atlanta. I could teach and take classes at the same time all in the same place. Well this past quarter I did just that. I taught 2 classes (Getting Published, and Self Promotion for Illustrators) and took my first class with Illustration professor Julie Mueller-Brown. It was grueling financially, physically, and mentally! During the middle of the quarter I found a more flexible and faster way to get my MFA at Hartford Art School, Limited Residency MFA in Illustration. So I won't be continuing with SCAD for my MFA in Illustration. More on that later.

ILLU 714 Drawing for Illustrators was a great course to start off with and therapeutic in many ways. For the first time in a long time I had allotted time to draw for me. Well, I was drawing for my professor but it was much more wide open than any other paying freelance gig I have done in over 16 years. The 7 other students and I did TONS of drawing inside and outside of class. Part of it was to create 5 personal graphite drawings outside of class. Julie wanted us to just start scribbling on nice drawing paper and see what happened. Below is my journey of those drawings. She is going to use my series of drawings as an example of the process for when she gives this assignment again. I went from literal symbols and words to almost abstract expressionism. Very different from what I am used to and a breath of fresh air.

I would love to get any feedback on these good or bad.

Vote for my T-Shirt Design!

I'm on the cover of Oz

My work is featured on the cover of Oz Magazine for the May/June 2009 issue! Oz is a Southeast regional magazine leader in the Creative Communications Industry publications. Also, in the magazine I'm featured in an article titled “Undercutting”. I represent an Illustrator’s point of view on pricing illustration, educating the client and negotiating effectively with all types of clients. The magazine is not online yet, but distributes them at various retail outlets around Atlanta that tend to cater to the communication, marketing and media professional, like Sam Flax, King Plow Art Center, Utrecht, Binders and others.