Lucie Rice - Limited edition print for An East Nashville Christmas

Lucie Rice created this fun holiday illustration for use as a commemorative poster for the benefit album titled An East Nashville Christmas.  The holiday themed compilation album and concert series is a group effort by 75 Nashville-based artists and musicians, and the proceeds directly benefit the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.  Lucie's Artist's Limited Edition Print is a special edition of 150 signed and numbered prints which features illustrations of East Nashville and includes the names of all the artists who participated in the project.  We love great artwork for a good cause!

Lucie Rice - An East Nashville Christmas commemorative poster

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Lucie Rice poster illustration for Southern Festival of Books

Lucie Rice designed and illustrated this poster for the recent Southern Festival of Books.  This was 24th annual festival, which is held in Nashville on the second full weekend of October every year.  Nice work, Lucie!

Lucie Rice - Poster illustration for the 24th Annual Southern Festival of Books

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Lucie Rice, saving one pet at a time with illustration

A wonderful set of posters illustrated by Lucie Rice for Animal Rescue Corps, a non-profit organization whose mission is to end animal suffering through direct and compassionate action, and to inspire the highest ethical standards of humanity towards animals.

Lucie Rice - poster Illustration for Animal Rescue Corps

Lucie Rice - poster Illustration for Animal Rescue Corps

Lucie Rice - poster Illustration for Animal Rescue Corps

Lucie Rice - poster Illustration for Animal Rescue Corps

Lucie Rice - poster Illustration for Animal Rescue Corps

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Lucie Rice cover illustration for NY Times Crosswords

Lucie Rice was commissioned by St. Martin's Press to illustrate the cover for The New York Times Crafty Crosswords.  We just received our samples of the cover and copy of the book, and it looks great!

Lucie Rice - The New York Times Crafty Crosswords cover illustration

Lucie Rice - The New York Times Crafty Crosswords

The New York Times Crafty Crosswords book

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Info graphics!

We love info graphics!  They are becoming more and more a part of our daily lives, and they are such a creative way to show what might otherwise be pretty dry and boring information.  Here is a look at some info graphic projects that our illustrators, Johnny Kotzé and Lucie Rice, recently worked on (click images for a closer look at these data-filled illustrations!) :

Johnny Kotzé - Info graphic illustrations for Eskom pitch

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Lucie Rice - Info graphic for the University of Southern Indiana

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Lucie Rice illustration for Amini's Pepperoni Chips

Lucie Rice created this illustration of a Santa Barbara beach scene for Amini's Pepperoni Chips.  Lucie worked with the great folks at Double 6 Design to come up with this sunny California illustration that can currently be seen on the Amini's website and will soon extend to other Amini's Pepperoni promotional items...

Lucie Rice - Illustration of Santa Barbara for Amini's Pepperoni Chips

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Lucie Rice illustrates on guitars!

Lucie Rice recently had the opportunity to illustrate on actual guitars for the Grand Ole Opry, as part of The Fourth Annual Guitars of the Stars Benefit Auction.  The event gave "country fans the opportunity to purchase one-of-a-kind guitars inspired and autographed by everyone from the Opry’s newest member to the Coal Miner’s Daughter".

The auction benefitted the Grand Ole Opry Trust Fund, and more than $19,950 was raised!

Lucie was proud to be asked to contribute to such a wonderful and creative event, and you can see more pics of the guitars on the event's Facebook page...

Lucie Rice - Keith Urban Guitar Illustration

Lucie Rice - Keith Urban Guitar Illustration (rear)

Lucie Rice - Loretta Lynn Guitar Illustration

Lucie Rice - Dierks Beatley Guitar Illustration

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Lucie Rice - Hey, Nashville!

Lucie Rice created these fun illustrations for a local promotional mailer that she designed to send out to businesses in the Nashville area where she lives. The font she designed to spell out "Nashville" is great, and we're big fans of her color palette!

Lucie Rice - Nashville promo - front

Lucie Rice - Nashville promo - back

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Lucie Rice's Hot-man-ta for Atlanta Magazine

Lucie Rice did this illustration for an article in the April 2012 issue of Atlanta Magazine.  The story was about the fact that Atlanta was voted the number one city for "hot guys", but no one can seem to find them anywhere!

Lucie Rice - Hot-man-ta

 A short excerpt from the article:

Hot-man-ta

Atlanta ranks first for handsome fellows.
So where are they?
 
Atlanta is a hotbed of handsome—at least, we seem to think so. The deal-doling website LivingSocial commissioned a survey by third-party Mandala Research asking residents in the top twenty U.S. cities to rate their city’s vanity. Lo and behold, ours ranked number one for handsome men. Which led us to one question: Where are all these hotties hiding?

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Lucie Rice's illustrated cocktail recipe: Hop, Skip, and Go Naked ...

Lucie Rice recently completed an illustration for The Art of the Cocktail ... Illustrated, an online journal of cocktail <and mocktail> recipes that showcases not only the recipe and a history of the drink, but also one or more illustration(s) by a select artist.

Lucie's selected drink was a vodka-based drink called Hop, Skip, and Go Naked, which we had never heard of before -- we'll let you click on the image to go read more about it and view the two wonderful and 'refreshing' pieces.

Lucie Rice - illustration for The Art of the Cocktail ... Illustrated. Teaser piece for Hop, Skip, and Go Naked.

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Hectic lifestyle of a single mom illustrated by Lucie Rice

Lucie Rice recently created this series of parenting illustrations for Babytalk Magazine.  The article, Power of One, is about single moms and their hectic lifestyles.

Lucie Rice - Power of One  -Shopping

Lucie Rice - Babytalk - Power of One

Lucie Rice - Power of One - spot illustrations

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Lucie Rice poster illustration for the American Cancer Society!

Lucie Rice will be participating in the upcoming Nashville Relay for Life to benefit the American Cancer Society, and she created this new piece of art to help with her fundraising efforts.  Anyone who makes a donation on Lucie's behalf will receive a signed 11"x17" poster designed by Lucie and featuring her inspiring new illustration - great art for a great cause!

Lucie Rice - Relay for Life poster illustration

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Lucie Rice illustration for the Southern Festival of Books

Lucie Rice was honored to be the featured artist for the 24th Annual Southern Festival of Books, and here is the poster design she created for the event.  Lucie was happy to contribute her art to the festival, especially considering that she loves poster design, reading, AND that Nashville happens to be her hometown!

Lucie Rice - Illustration for the 24th Annual Southern Festival of Books

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Palm Springs illustrated

Nice new site that focuses on Palm Springs stylized illustration - Lifestyle and architecture. You can submit your photos and get a personalized illustration ... customized to your liking.

From the site:
The final work can be printed in a variety of formats to suit your taste. We can create a large scale fine art piece printed on paper or canvas, or reproduce your portrait on a smaller scale as personal notecards or postcards for yourself or your business.

Palm Springs Illustration - Custom Illustration by Artist Lucie Rice

Check it out at www.psillustration.com

Your Preschooler's Toughest Questions Answered!

Lucie Rice created these illustrations for the February 2012 issue of Parenting magazine for an article titled "Your Preschooler's Toughest Questions Answered!"  Her style works so well with illustrations of adults and toddlers alike - fun fun!

Lucie Rice - Parenting Magazine, February 2012

Lucie Rice - Parenting Magazine, February 2012

Lucie Rice - A Brief History of Thanksgiving

Being that most of us are getting ready for Thanksgiving festivities of one sort or another tomorrow, it seemed fitting to share this new piece created by Lucie Rice.  It's pretty much Thanksgiving in a nutshell, and we hope you like it!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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Lucie Rice - A Brief History of Thanksgiving (click to enlarge)

In case you want a little more, here's Wikipedia's version:
Thanksgiving in North America had originated from a mix of European and Native traditions.[1] Typically in Europe, festivals were held before and after the harvest cycles to give thanks for a good harvest, and to rejoice together after much hard work with the rest of the community.[1] At the time, Native Americans had also celebrated the end of a harvest season.[1] When Europeans first arrived to the Americas, they brought with them their own harvest festival traditions from Europe, celebrating their safe voyage, peace and good harvest.[1] Though the origins of the holiday in both Canada and the United States are similar, Americans do not typically celebrate the contributions made in Newfoundland, while Canadians do not celebrate the contributions made in Plymouth, Massachusetts.[2]