Gravelly Art holiday cards are born from the imagination of Jud Guitteau in partnership with his wife Lynn. Jud has been a commercial illustrator for over 20 years. Lynn has been an ad agency art director and a freelance designer forever. Combining their talents into one venture has been a plan for years. Jud’s wonderful characters, style and imagination in combination with Lynn’s design and production background are evident in the first four lines that Gravelly Art has developed. FILBURT’S ICE FOLLIES is a series that features a happy holiday bird who won’t grow up. A RETRO XMAS is a series inspired by festive front yards in Palm Springs and all things mid century. YULESVILLE is an eclectic mix from a quirky holiday perspective. PENGUIN PARTY CIRCUIT is a series featuring a small colony of fun loving revelers.
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Jud Guitteau is a Northwest boy. Born in Seattle Washington and raised in Eugene Oregon he lives in Portland Oregon with his wife, one child in college and the other about ready to launch himself on the world. Oh, and a completely worthless cat.
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The family assumed that he would be a dentist that led to a degree in Biology. Dental school wanted him but he didn’t want them. After traveling and working abroad, it was back to school for a degree in Landscape Architecture. That one stuck for a while and he had a successful design and construction company until he decided to finally do what he had always wanted to do.
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In 1988 Jud started illustrating for pay. A life long drawer, sketcher and golfer his early work was often sports imagery. Jud developed a style in pastel and acrylic media characterized by oversized people in stylized settings which gained quick acceptance nation wide. Over the years some of Jud’s clients have included AT&T, MCI, Wall St. Journal, Miami Herald, US Postal Service, JC Penney, British Music Group, Adobe Systems, IBM and Microsoft. His work has appeared in Prints’ Regional Design Annual.
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Jud has continually evolved his style and now works in digital media as well as acrylic painting. Many illustrations begin as hand drawings or paintings that are then scanned and manipulated. He has recently started experimenting with adding photography to his illustrations (check out the “Photo Art” button in his Portfolio at judguitteau.com).
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Perhaps one of Jud’s most recognizable images was for Adobe Systems. When Adobe launched Acrobat it was Jud’s illustration that appeared when Adobe Acrobat was opened up on millions of computers around the world.
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Jud has lots more up his sleeve, so bookmark this site and get ready to keep visiting.
