Benard Creative

03/08/2026

While traveling by riverboat down the Danube from Germany into Austria, I made this pen and ink sketch of my dinner table, with the riverside homes beyond. Drawing is my medicine.

10/06/2025

Taking in the splendor of Dunton Hot Springs with

05/08/2024

Happy Birthday Mom. Four months ago you left this plane, but I feel you with me all the time. I love you.

01/18/2023

Relaxing after a long 2 days of shooting in the sprawling Marin Headlands with

10/02/2022

Growing up in the shadows of skyscrapers, I’d never imagined the warm feeling of late day sun in the Northern California foothills. A moment of connection captured by while we were on a shoot for a new brand; more soon.

05/22/2019

http://www.benardcreative.com/blog/2019/5/22/the-importance-of-color-in-consumer-packaging

Written by James Benard for Brand Packaging Magazine. Did you know that if a blind person sits in a room painted red, their blood pressure will rise? Color runs more deeply through us than what we see; it affects us physically and therefore emotionally. What chord are you look

01/11/2018

Do: Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and walk the hallways. There are thousands of years of creativity there - layer upon layer.

Don’t: Watch TV - Your TV has a great quantity of entertainment but the quality is poor. I never would have the time to work on drawings like this one if I owned a television.

01/11/2018

This installation was like being inside of a colored glass igloo.

01/08/2018

The Italian countryside (the Vento) outside of Venice. The colors in the hilltop towns can’t be captured by any camera.

01/05/2018

Old Grappa bottles from Palo distillery. There were just too many to share.


01/05/2018

Church floors of Venice.

12/29/2017

Live in love.