http://browse.deviantart.com/journals/?order=5&q=by%3Amlauritano deviantART RSS for in:journals sort:time by:mlauritano en-us Copyright 2013, deviantART.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:38:30 PDT deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://st.deviantart.net/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Update-finally-296322474 http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Update-finally-296322474 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:54:51 PDT Update (finally) nonadult journals/personal mlauritano http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/l/mlauritano.png?1 Copyright 2012-2013 ~mlauritano
So, I've just posted up some of the efforts from my first published kid's book work, Snowmobile. If you enjoy riding snowmobiles or know a young feller who does that also happens to be learning to read, you might want to buy this book on Amazon. The experience of making the illustrations was far from perfect, but I'm happy to have my foot (or at least one crushed toe) in the door of the publishing world.

Yes, it's been a bajillion years since my last post. This is primarily because I got an awesome day job in Chicago. I'm now Jay Ryan's official, solo printer and assistant at a shop called The Bird Machine. Jay is kind of famous in ]]> http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Revisions-revisions-revisions-221433190 http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Revisions-revisions-revisions-221433190 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:20:33 PST Revisions, revisions, revisions nonadult journals/personal mlauritano http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/l/mlauritano.png?1 Copyright 2011-2013 ~mlauritano
Currently hard at work revising illustrations for the 'Snowmobile!' kids book I was hired for. Discerning eyes, these editors and Bombardier Museum folk have... That's all I'll say about that!

On a brighter note, for those with the mildest of yearnings to see more M. Lauritano traditional work, I've got just the thing! Over Christmas I frantically wrangled up some of the paintings I gave as gifts to my immediate family and scanned them for archival purposes and to share here. Same materials as usual with somewhat looser handling. There are more of these gifted paintings out there than I can remember... The Devil's Punchbowl, The Na ]]> http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Brother-can-you-spare-a-dime-222551543 http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Brother-can-you-spare-a-dime-222551543 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:12:30 PST Brother, can you spare a dime? nonadult journals/personal mlauritano http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/l/mlauritano.png?1 Copyright 2010-2013 ~mlauritano
As you can tell by the title, things are little rough here in Chicago, even though I'm busier than ever. Working at good ol' FugScreens Studios in Wicker Park has been fun and I've had the opportunity to do a good amount of poster work. Unfortunately, it hasn't paid well enough to really support me when I need it. Don't get me wrong, I've learned to love screen-printing and the possibilities it presents and it's been awesome to have a fresh artistic career venue, more editorial and contemporary, in which I can experiment with new styles and completely unanticipated kinds of content. But it's plain to see, looking through my gallery, ]]> http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Babes-in-Bucktown-226612645 http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Babes-in-Bucktown-226612645 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:35:23 PDT Babes in Bucktown nonadult journals/personal mlauritano http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/l/mlauritano.png?1 Copyright 2010-2013 ~mlauritano
Chicago has been good and now that the weather is warming up, things are improving. Life after making the infamous 'Jimmy and the Rainbow' has been somewhat cloudy. I went to SCBWI's winter conference in NY and got lots of positive feedback, and lots of incredulous, aghast expressions whenever I informed someone I hadn't officially been published yet. I was hoping to win a portfolio prize, but I returned home empty-handed (with the exception of a pile of books about writing for kids and teens that I won in a raffle). Thanks to a RISD friend, I got into the offices of Far ]]> http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Chicagoland-229196631 http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Chicagoland-229196631 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:53:57 PST Chicagoland! nonadult journals/personal mlauritano http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/l/mlauritano.png?1 Copyright 2009-2013 ~mlauritano http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Cali-for-ny-ay-231212886 http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Cali-for-ny-ay-231212886 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:35:10 PDT Cali-for-ny-ay! nonadult journals/personal mlauritano http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/l/mlauritano.png?1 Copyright 2009-2013 ~mlauritano http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Boungiorno-233388585 http://mlauritano.deviantart.com/journal/Boungiorno-233388585 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:21:50 PST Boungiorno! nonadult journals/personal mlauritano http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/l/mlauritano.png?1 Copyright 2009-2013 ~mlauritano