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John Alan Travis Low
(Travis)
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2242 Cartwright Place, Reston VA 20191-1910 USA
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+1 703 476 5312
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http://dawnstar.org/travis
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travis@dawnstar.org
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Welcome to my portfolio. This portfolio
represents the portion of my work that I bothered
to take pictures of.
Most of my art is graphic in nature : lines, shapes,
and type. I'm really good with a pen and not bad with a brush,
Sculpture is very personal, so you decide how good I am there.
I also write static web pages, like this one. However,
the bulk of my professional work involves the dynamic
generation of web pages.
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Serigraph.
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Christmas card, 2006
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Serigraph.
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Christmas card, 2005
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Serigraph.
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Christmas card, 2004
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Serigraph.
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Christmas card, 2003
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Serigraph.
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Christmas card, 2002
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Serigraph. Dedicated to our
friends lost on 9/11. Here's the
sketch.
First impression.
Second.
Third.
(You are looking at the fourth.)
If I sent you one of these, then backlight the card
for the full effect.
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Christmas card, 2001
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Serigraph. My friends affectionately call this
the "Santa Death Scene" card. Oh well. He's supposed to
be crouched down, putting presents under the tree.
You decide.
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Christmas card, 2000
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Serigraph and Watercolor. Plus a little hilighter.
I printed the yellow, then used two highlighters, then
printed the black.
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Christmas card, 1999
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Serigraph. Now, this was a complicated card.
You can't see in the thumbnail, but notice how I've developed
the underprinting technique to simulate a reflection in
the window. Btw, this is supposed to be the 1993 card from
the other direction.
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Christmas card, 1998
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Serigraph. Only two colors this time, but I used the
layering technique to simulate three colors. My second son had just been
born, so I was too busy to do a really complicated card.
Here's the sketch.
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Christmas card, 1997
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Serigraph. That's my son in the card.
As you can see, I was really groovin' on being
a daddy. Here's the sketch.
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Christmas card, 1996
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Serigraph. These
are my favorite cards. The shading on the
red ball is due to intentional underprinting of another
color. I've exploited this technique more in later cards.
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Christmas card, 1995
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Serigraph.
These cards were so late that
they turned into New Year's cards. (See the "94" sailing away?)
But they are
Christmas cards in spirit, so I list them here.
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Christmas card, 1994
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Serigraph. Unlike my other cards,
I shamelessly stole this design from a card
I saw at a department store. I changed the colors
and added the cats. I did print them myself, though.
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Christmas card, 1993
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Pen and Ink. I designed these cards and
had them offset printed. If you look closely, you'll
see our cat under the tree. She was like that.
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Christmas card, 1990
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Calligraphy. Lettered with green, blue, and
pearl gouache. The letter style is my own.
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Auguries of Innocence
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Sculpture. Yes, that is really a waffle. I
burned it in the waffle iron. It looked really cool,
so I saved it. Then it broke. Then I glued it.
Then I decided to dry the glue in the oven. Then I
forgot it was in the oven. That's when it
actually turned black.
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Waffle
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Sculpture. Yes, really pancakes. And
a lichen. And an agate. And a pentium. And a glass
bead. I think I'll do french toast next.
Currently in the collection of Edward G. Lawson.
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Pancake
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Logo Design. A very talented friend of mine
asked me to design a logo for her. Here are my four
sketches. Of course she picked the one at the top right, my
least favorite. I liked the two at left the best.
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Logos for Deborah Benner
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Pen and Ink. Deborah needed a nice picture that
lent itself to being photocopied, so I drew this for her.
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Sketch of Deborah Benner
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Logo Design. One of my computer science professors
wanted a logo designed. He traded me some homebrew for
my trouble.
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Logo for Josh Tenenberg
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Layout and Design. While working as a screen printer
at Able Sign, I designed their logo and laid out their
letterhead, business cards, advertisements, and so on.
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Able Sign Business Card
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Layout and Design. Wedding invitation for
Jim and Beth Low.
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Jim's Wedding Invitation
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Layout and Design. My wedding invitation. I
also printed these, but I shouldn't have. I would
have had them offset printed, but I ran out of time.
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Travis and Carolyn's Wedding Invitation
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Serigraph and Watercolor. Birth
announcement for John Michael Tiernan Low.
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Tiernan's Birth Announcement
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Serigraph and Watercolor. Birth
announcement for Griffin Tully Francis Low.
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Griffin's Birth Announcement
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Calligraphy. New Year's postcards.
Offset printed.
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New Year's Card
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Pen and colored pencils. New Year's card.
Never sent. =)
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New Year's Card
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Pen and ink. New Year's card.
Offset printed.
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New Year's Card
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Calligraphy. New Year's card.
Offset printed, then lightly shaded
with colored pencils (shading not shown here).
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New Year's Card
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Pen and ink. New Year's card.
Offset printed.
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New Year's Card
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Scene Painting. Ordinary latex paint, with some
glow-in-the-dark paint. Tiernan wanted fish in his room,
so I painted him an ocean.
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Tiernan's Room
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Scene Painting. Mostly ordinary latex paint, with some
glow-in-the-dark paint. Here's Tiernan, smiling for the camera.
The jellyfish and sailboat are slight modifications of
Tiernan's handiwork.
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Tiernan's Room
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Scene/Sign Painting. I solid-coated and spattered the background
to get the parchment effect, then I painted the letters. I laid out the
whole 40-foot piece, but I only painted the "eople". That's my buddy
Ted Koppel standing next to it.
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We the People
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Vinyl on Plexiglass. This was loosely copied from
a picture of an art-deco-era rug. I applied the vinyl to the
plexi, used a pounce pattern to mark the shapes, then cut
the shapes with a knife.
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Cabinet Front
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Sculpture/Woodworking. I wanted a new table in my kitchen. I wanted
it round, and I didn't want it to look clunky. I had the glass and the wood,
so I made this table.
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Kitchen Table
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Sculpture/Woodworking. The stair railings were boring, so
I decided to tear them down and do something interesting. The
inspiration was a
picture of a stained-glass window I saw in a magazine. Here's
a scale model I made
to help me decide whether to do the project.
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Stairway Partition
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Sculpture. I needed to do a seminar
for our product line. The target audience was decidedly non-technical,
so I built a bunch of models to convey the technical concepts.
Click the image to see more of the models.
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Network Models
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resume
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