Trucks, Seattle, by Tommy Perman

Tuesday greetings collectors! After a week of Starnmania, things are getting back to normal around here. Which means that today is fine art day, tomorrow is photo day and I'm about to hit the road.

Trucks, Seattle is based on an original drawing by Scottish renaissance fella Tommy Perman. I first came across Tommy's work back in January, via one of the countless art and design blogs in my RSS feed. I was really taken with his drawings of cityscapes and cars and I was very pleased to discover that he too was interested in making affordable versions of his artwork. I immediately snapped up one of his postcard packs and after that we decided to do an edition together.

As per usual there's a random assortment of things that make this drawing particularly appealing to be. The trucks are gathered together in a way that reminds me of a herd of elephants, and it just so happens that I am fascinated by elephants. The red and blue Tommy uses in the drawing are a close approximation of the colors in my gallery's logo. But first and foremost, I look at these cement mixers all lined up and imagine one of my friends' kids, most likely a boy of 3 or 5, lighting up at the sight of trucks. There's something about the pure joy that a little kid can summon at the site of a roaring hunk of metal that really warms my heart.

A roaring hunk of metal of the airborne variety will be transporting me to San Francisco later today. I'm participating in a Small Business Hacks roundtable at Web2Open, which is the unconference that coincidences with the bigger, more conference-ier Web 2.0 Expo. Aside from conference-related stuff, art will be seen, meetings will be had and newsletters will be written. For now, I'm off to try to undo the over-packing I've done. Look for me tomorrow, when I'll write from the left coast to introduce this week's photo edition.