Julie Lonneman Studio

Another recent work for the cover of Celebration .

Artist Ouida Touchon incorporated my woodcut print from the 2013 Tiger Lily calendar in the interior of her sweet treasure box assemblage.

My illustration for the February 2014 Celebration cover is meant to convey the many layers of meaning in the scriptures available to homilists. Though this illustration is unabashedly digital, I started by sketching by hand. Then I cut the basic shapes out of plastic with a knife, also by hand. At that point I scanned them to my computer, added color and manipulated them in Photoshop.

Lately things have picked up a little and I have been creating some new images. Here's one I did for the cover of an upcoming issue of Celebration . The theme was Pentecost as harvest. Hope. Abundance. Labor. Grace.

Lately I've been asked to create a number of logos. Though I normally don't get many jobs like this, I enjoy the challenge of working closely with the people involved to come up with just the right image to express their organization's identity. At right, the logo I designed for Northside Farmers Market .

The letter below made my day. What else could I do besides send some art to Honduras? Dear Julie, My name is Erin, and I am currently a long-term volunteer with a Catholic children's home called the Farm of the Child in Honduras. I subscribe to Living with Christ (from Canada) and have been moved multiple times by your beautiful artwork on the cover. Today I decided to check out some of your other work on your blog and on the Trinity Stores website, and laughed when I realized that your work isn't unfamiliar to me at all - I graduated from Notre Dame in 2009, and worked twice as a mentor for the NDVision program, so I've been seeing your images of our models of faith on t-shirts and posters for years. I have also seen your illustrations on the LTP Year of Grace calendar, which some of my fellow volunteers had put in our some of the houses in our project earlier this year. I love your art, especially how inclusive it is, and how it invites creative, critical reflection on o...

I decided to show my Northside prints at Northside Art in the Park June 18. First time to do something like that, so lots of prep: getting the vendor's license to pay sales tax, figuring out a support to hang my work from, getting a 10'x10' canopy, matting and wrapping prints, etc. Yesterday started out rainy with a strong possibility of thunderstorms during the day. I was worried my work would get ruined in the rain, that it would be miserable, that no one would come, etc. Since I had invested so much in getting ready, I decided to go ahead. I'm so glad I did. I think the weather kept attendance on the low side, but still, I met lots of great people, many who were intrigued by these prints of a street in their neighborhood. Early on, a woman came by, pointed to the print above and exclaimed, "That's my chair!" To which I replied, "Then that must be you!" Unknown to her, I had created this image of her volunteer efforts in the DAR pocket park. S...