{"id":795,"date":"2018-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weebly-import-post-37"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:43:24","slug":"designing-the-cfc-t-shirt-tips-from-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"wingbeat","link":"https:\/\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wingbeat\/designing-the-cfc-t-shirt-tips-from-the-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing the CFC T-Shirt: Tips from the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\"><strong>By Guest Blogger Julie Ho<\/strong><\/div> <div><div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Picture\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/julieho-portrait.jpg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Julie Ho is an exhibit and graphic designer at NUMU (New Museum of Los Gatos) and designed the artwork for this year&#8217;s <a href=\"\/staging\/1924\/tshirts\/\">California Fall Challenge T-Shirt<\/a>. Below she shares the steps she took to create this year&#8217;s design and gives a little preview of the kinds of things she may be sharing during her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flipcause.com\/secure\/event_step2\/NDA0MTc=\/32249\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sketching and Beer: Capturing Nature With Art&#8221;<\/a> CFC workshop on Oct. 6th!<\/em><br\/><br\/><strong>The Sketch:<\/strong>\u00a0This year&#8217;s t-shirt design is a marsh theme featuring a\u00a0\u200b<span>salt marsh harvest mouse (<\/span><em>Reithrodontomys raviventris)<\/em><span>\u00a0and a &#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n  <div class=\"paragraph\"><span>Ridgway&#8217;s rail (<\/span><em>Rallus obsoletus)<\/em><span>. I started the design as I would start any illustration, by doing research on my subject. I was primarily interested in learning about the habitat the mouse and rail would be found in to get an idea of the foliage that I would need to depict in my design. The pickleweed (<\/span><em>Salicornia pacifica)\u00a0<\/em><span>and cordgrass (<\/span><em>Spartina foliosa)<\/em><span>\u00a0stood out to me as some of the more easily identifiable\u00a0and common flora found in San Francisco salt marshes. I knew when I started my research and from seeing the rail and cordgrass that I wanted my design to be vertical and narrow to emphasize the silhouette of the bird.\u00a0<\/span><br\/><br\/><span><strong>The Draft:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><span>After I received\u00a0feedback on my sketch I added the gumweed plant (Grindelia stricta and Grindelia camporum) to my design to add a pop of yellow from its flowers and break up the green of the cordgrass and pickleweed. At this time I also planned out the color scheme for the t-shirt, doing my best to narrow down the color choices to as few as I could. While I would normally go into detail at this point and flesh out all the subtle color variations in the rail, mouse, and flora I restricted myself in my color palette and made the decision to simplify the flora to very basic shapes to put further emphasis on the rail and mouse.\u00a0<\/span><\/div> <div> <figure class=\"wp-block-gallery wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/img-3802.jpg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/sfbbo-tshirtmockup-2.png?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/sfbbo-tshirt2018-final.png?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><\/figure>\n<\/div> <div class=\"paragraph\">\u200b<span><strong>The Final:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><span>In the last version of the design I changed my choice about depicting the shorter gumweed plant in the foreground to a similar yellow flowering shrub, the salty susan (<\/span><em>Jaumea carnosa<\/em><span>). At this point I also realized I had to further simplify my colors and chose slightly different colors to fit within the requirements from the t-shirt printing company. I ended up going with only 3 colors and really had to push my boundaries to make the most of the limited palette I had.\u00a0<\/span><br\/><br\/><span>I am quite pleased with the end result, and while I could not render all components in the design as accurately as I would have liked due to the constraints, the final design still holds up to my original concept, and that is more than I hoped for going into it! <a href=\"\/staging\/1924\/tshirts\/\">Click here<\/a> to learn how you can get your own 2018 CFC T-Shirt!<\/span><br\/><br\/><em>An artist from the\u00a0San Francisco Bay Area, Julie started her undergraduate studies in Biochemistry but rediscovered her love for art in her second year and turned her concentration to creating art for science communication. She completed her BFA degree in\u00a0Pictorial Arts\u00a0with a minor in\u00a0Science\u00a0from\u00a0San Jose State University. During her time as an undergrad she taught art classes in Los Altos, CA, where she found her passion for children&#8217;s education. Continuing her own education, she attended\u00a0CSU Monterey Bay&#8217;s Science Illustration\u00a0graduate program in 2016. Influenced by the changing climate and its effect on life within it, Julie hopes to communicate local environmental issues through illustrations for science education. She returned to the Bay for her internship in Fremont at the\u00a0Children&#8217;s Natural History Museum. Currently, Julie is working at\u00a0New Museum Los Gatos\u00a0(NUMU)\u00a0as their\u00a0exhibit and graphic designer. You can see other examples of her work on <a href=\"http:\/\/illustratorjulie.com\" target=\"_blank\">her website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Guest Blogger Julie Ho<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1230,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":""},"class_list":["post-795","wingbeat","type-wingbeat","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Designing the CFC T-Shirt: Tips from the Artist - San Fransisco Bay Bird Observatory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wingbeat\/designing-the-cfc-t-shirt-tips-from-the-artist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Designing the CFC T-Shirt: Tips from the Artist - 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