Lincoln Memorial Garden 75th Anniversary – Artwork
This summer I was asked to create a patch for Lincoln Memorial Garden’s 75th anniversary. The organization in Springfield, IL wanted a patch due to its association with Scouting (both boys and girls) historically. That’s right, it’s story time. As the epic tale goes, in 1936, Harriet Knudson got the crazy idea to create a living memorial to Abraham Lincoln. In the initial planting of the acorns for the gardens, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts volunteered to do the work. The end. At least that’s the short and sweet of it. So my concept for the design was a Boy Scout and a Girl Scout looking off into the horizon as a “mysterious,” hazy figure approaches. Can anyone say “young Abraham Lincoln”? These images show a brief progression from my initial drawing to a more refined image, a base colored imaged and the final image with some shadow work (please ignore the typo…it was fixed in the final image, ok? RELAX)
