I saved this image for last. It’s my favorite Backyard Enterprises illustration. I did the base drawing and Jeff Swenson painted it. The original (and all the other large BE paintings) is in storage now. The darned thing is huge.
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The Penultimate Backyard Enterprises Post
And, now, at last, the second to last Backyard Enterprises post. The man behind the company packed it in after a little over a year. Would there have been a lucrative market for the materials he was proposing to produce? He’d started out thinking there was. The marketing he’d had us do indicated that there was some kind of market but that reaching it would probably require more capital than he had to invest. And there would be no guarantee of success. At that point he’d already spent a few thousand and really wasn’t interested in spending any more without an immediate turnaround. So Backyard Enterprises was put out to pasture.
PPE Brochure Cover
Rain Cycle Photoshopped
Once the individual vignettes had been pulled out we (well, Jeff) reassembled them so that each image flowed more cleanly to the next. Compare this version with the original painting.
Put That Nasty Stuff Away!
Careful, It Bites
Process Wastes Carefully
Keep Your Wastes Warm and Dry
The Rain Comes Down
Rain Cycle Painting
This the original art for another planned Backyard Enterprises educational poster. As before, I did the pencil artwork and Jeff Swenson painted in the colors.