Loser's gallery

This was the first and last time I entered art for speculation or contest, in this case for the label and logo for a sake brewing company.

I lost, but I still like the result and the concept, since the sake plant would be brewing from nearby rice yields, where paddies play home to egrets and herons.

Occasionally for projects I'd use a juicy pen on paper towels or napkins, to let the ink bleed and create haphazard texture, which in this case was to be evocative of rice paper and handcrafted drink. Patches and revisions were done with good ol' Wite-Out.®

I think 20 years or so passed before I first tasted sake. Maybe that was my problem.