A Guy Fine Art Site Up!

Steve Ollice, my web guru, put up a small site for me featuring my painting. Please check it out:

www.aguystudio.com/aguyfineart/

It is still being worked on, but Steve Ollice (web guru) has set up a very good template for me to use, showing a range of my painting/sketching styles. Soon, my commercial site will be linked to this site, for ease of use.

More needs to go up and it will. (As soon as I get more of the work shot, that is. Photography takes so much time!)

Anyway, enjoy...and if this site is down, being worked on, please check back later.

Thanks-Allan

New Projects, New Projects...

...of various natures are rolling in.  Just for a quick update, here are some of the things either in the works at A. Guy Studio, just starting to be designed or are coming out soon:

1. Wild Scotsman Whisky:  An ultra premium single cask single malt offering, aged 12 years, Speyside, Scotland.  The design has a multiple labeling system, incorporating areas for hand signing, hand numbering and cask number registering.  This whisky is bottled at the House of MacDuff in Linwood Scotland and is full dram with a velvety finish and perfect viscosity, leaving fine "legs" on the glass.  Enough said.
2. First Colony Winery:  A new summer blush wine...details still secret until the launch!  www.firstcolonywinery.com.
   
3. Manassas Museum:  Launching now, a new line of A. Guy Studio branded products has been created, expanding their product portfolio into items like a stainless steel, eco-friendly reusable water bottles, various kitchen products...just a ton of "good stuff" which will be posted soon.
   
4. George Washington's Historic Mount Vernon/Mount Vernon Distillery-#1 stop on the National Whiskey Trail:  Two lines of authentic spirits are in design development by A. Guy Studio for GW's fascinating, rebuilt and operational 18th century distillery.  One new spirit is priced for the average consumer and history lover, the other for the American whiskey connoisuer.  More details about these items cannot be divulged until the product release. However, this design and marketing plan for this historically accurate pair has been crafted to hit sales and marketing goals (plus they look of the period-with some twists-and are great fun to design).
5. Chesapeake Bay Distilling Company, Chesapeake, Virginia, makers of Blue Ridge Vodka: These guys have two new tasty products coming out...Blue Ridge Honeysuckle Peach Flavored Vodka (the name says it all...over ice on a hot summer's day, c'mon.) and a sister product with a refreshing taste "profile" unlike anything else on the market.  Too bad it is in the final stages of development, or I would divulge more.  Look for it soon!  You can't miss the all natural look of the brand packaging.  It utilizes a charming rendition of the rolling Blue Ridge Mountains behind graphic and illustrative flavor cues, plus a cheerful use of their mascot, a Virginia cardinal.
6. Vino Curioso:  The boys at Vino Curioso's Wine Factory have successfully launched their newest red blend, "Yesterday," (see post below) and are hard at work, crafting new varietals and blends with packaging and imagery to match.  Will post some shots when they are released.  Until then, you can find their wines at many VA ABC stores, at a wine fest near you!, online at www.vinocurioso.com and soon at their new tasting facilities at the Virginia Wine Factory outside of Manassas, VA...not too far from DC, so city-folk!  Come out to "the country" and have great wine with a fun design look.

More items in the works, this is just a taste.  Check back soon!

Wintergreen Winery supports new festival: Amherst-Neslson County Summer Solstice Wine & Farm Festival

 Jeff and Tam Stone, of Wintergreen Winery, are not only a branding and package design client of mine, they are good friends and talented winemakers.  They are proud of being a Virginian winery and pleased to support local, Nelson County events, so it is natural that they will be underwriters at a new Nelson County Festival this weekend, the Amherst-Neslson County Summer Solstice Wine & Farm Festival.

The Festival will celebrate LOCAL wines (including Wintergreen, perennial winners of wine awards up and down the eastern seaboard, including the prestigious Virginia Governor's Cup), foods, music, arts and crafts, and sustainable and organic farming, healthy cooking, and the advantages of buying local. You’ll want to take part in the high noon Summer Solstice ritual performed by the Grove of the Seven Hills.

Kids, teens, and grown-ups will love the incredible BOUNCE DEPARTMENT venue with over forty inflatable bouncing setups – waterslides, sumo wrestling, climbing towers, bull-bucking. Little ones will flock to the “Tiny Tots” and “Toddler Town” areas.Go check the festival out, support locally made products, Virginia wines and especially the fine wines of Wintergreen Winery!

http://www.summersolsticefestival.com/

Vino Curioso Pouring Tasty Italian Style Wines at 5th Annual Manassas, VA Wine & Jazz Fest

This weekend, June 21, Old Town Manassas shuts down to host a whole ton of booths, including a sort of "wine alley," featuring premier Virginia wineries.  There will also be a slew of fine Jazz music, including  Doc Gibb's of Emeril fame, among others.

My clients, Michael Matthews and Michael Sawyers of Vino Curioso are the real home-town wine guys attending the Fest.  Though they have grapes growing from Winchester to the Northern Neck, Vino is soon to open their "Virginia Wine Factory" at a huge, split level, absolutely industrially cool location near Nissan Pavillion, right outside of Manassas.  

Check them out before they get too full of themselves...nibbling teensy baby quail complimented with a room temperature fromage avec la réduction de grenouille et de crevette d'airelle (thems good eats), chatting with lots of nice, wine-loving people in one of their two lounges (the upstairs one is especially sweet) and quaffing their top notch Sangiovese out of grossly oversized snifters (garnished with umbrellas), all the while referring to each other in made up, foreign pen names.  Like "Monsieur Le Plume."

Plus, you can watch them make wine at the Factory...amusing and educational!  (Really, they  are fun guys and you can see how they make their absolutely great wines.  Neat.)

Check out this shot of the owners (above) and you will know who you are talking to when you attend the Manassas Fest on Sunday.  Michael Matthews is on the left wearing a stylish golf beenie.  Michael Sawyers is on the other left, greedily clutching for his own an entire bottle of fine, fine red.  Nobody knows who belongs to the ghost hands floating on either side of this photo, but they appear thirsty.  

Check out more Festival detailed info here: 

http://media.visitmanassas.org/events/viewevent.aspx?id=2051 

Photo Credit:  Steve Urry, HMI Marketing and Events Coordinator.  Thank you, Steve!