faux florals published!

If you're a long time reader, you might remember back to earlier in 2007 and the book project I shot with my friend Camilla Burns - Faux Florals.  Well we finally got copies of it in December.  It's so rewarding to see a project come full circle.  It is distributed in lots of countries - US, England, China, Europe, Australia and Japan!!!  Well Europe isn't exactly a country.  

I've been a little behind on my blogging for 2008.  Working on catching up and finishing a big o list from 2007 for a fresh start on new projects.  It's been a joy to work from the new studio, I'll post photos of it when I get some furniture.  For now I feel kind of like I'm camping here!

Happy 2008!

Faux Florals Book

Occassionally in the path of life we will all be approached with a proposition that we would never have thought we'd be doing. That was the case when my good friends Camilla and Scot Burns called me about a year ago to see if I'd be interested in working on a "how to" Faux Floral design book.

They had been approached by Quintet Publishing
out of London to put together some sample projects of the book they had concepted and needed a talented artist to implement. So Camilla put together a few arrangemets in her stylish fashion, I shot the arrangements in "commercial" mode and we did a step-by-step shoot and submitted it all. Almost a year had passed and we pretty much figured they were not able to sell the project as they had projected. We didn't really give it much thought, and considered it an honor to have been asked in the first place.

Well in about Feb of this year, they called, and they had sold the project! The hitch for us was that the deadline was around the corner. So we knuckled down and busted out 35+ projects in about a weeks worth of time....a near miracle I tell you! I really felt bad for Camilla, it was an extra amount of work for her, since she had to come up with the projects and then sit there and show the steps as I photographed them.

Here are a few samples of one of the sample projects and layout and then a whole load of my favorite arrangements and images. Camilla is simply exceptionally talented and I love flowers, so we made a great team!

The book, called Faux Florals, will be distributed in the UK, the USA and Australia....look for it on your local bookshelf this summer! Or you can asked for a signed copy from yours truly!