Dog Show Poster

The dog park is the best place on earth.

Screenprinted poster around the theme of dogs for Telegraph Gallery's The Dog Show where a group of illustrators were asked to make posters around the theme of Dogs. The printed piece is 11 x 14 inches on 100# paper using six colors. I chose to illustrate a bunch of different dogs playing around at the park. I based the dogs on real breeds but also played with creating my own types of dogs to play in a wide open field.

Client

Telegraph Gallery Charlottesville, VA.

Outcome

Print Poster

The Park

I decided that I wanted to draw LOTS of dogs, the best way to do this seemed to set my poster in a dog park and fill it full of dogs. The dogs aren't based on specific breeds but are composites of various traits. I wanted to have a wide variety of dogs but didn't want things to seem like I was referencing details, instead I was hoping the poster would convey the essence of dogs through their poses and expresions.

Screenprint

Normally I like to use a lot of colors, but becasue of the limited palette I decided to choose three main colors for the dogs and use halftone patterns to layer the colors to created different colors of dog. I wasn't able to find clear information on how fine I could make the patterns so I was cautious and went with larger patterns, after seeing it in print I think next time I would either make the halftones smaller or stick to flat colors. Aside from a few small changes I'm happy with how the prints turned out, you can by a print from Telegraph Gallery.