hand2mouse... design & illustration

Each illustration on this page was created digitally, but Nancy Wirsig McClure had the goal of making it look like
watercolor, or woodcut, or clay relief, or other natural media.

Similated watercolor,,plan view of garden

Simulation of watercolor painting.

Illustration used in a gardening book's planning chapter.

simulated painting, factory on a good day and a bad day

Simulation of acrylic painiting
with underpainting on textured board.

Illustration for an insurance ad.

simulated clay relief, illustrating algebra word problems

Simulation of clay modeling in relief.

Each image illustrated a different
word problem in an Algebra texbook.

PRODUCTION NOTES:
The bookwas printed with four spot-coior plates.
This determined the color palette,
and Nancy used channels in Photoshop to set up the file.

simulated woodcut for a package label

Simulation of woodcut with hand-tinting.

Illustration for food packaging.

simulated painting for a decorative paper plate

Simulation of mezzotint printing of black,
with color added on a limited number of color plates.

Artwork for an autumn-themed paper plate.

Services: Graphic design, print design, web design; creation of presentations;
creation of graphics, illustrations, infographics, logos, icons and motion graphics;
by graphic artist Nancy Wirsig McClure in Portland, Oregon USA.