David Gallup is a contemporary impressionist painter based out of California. In this book, David works with biologist Betsy Crowfoot to educate and instill a sense of appreciation for the diverse terrain and wildlife native to five of the Pacific Channel Islands.

To feature his paintings, the layout is clean and minimal, with wide margins and an image-centric design. His traditional painting style is echoed in the type treatment with the use of elegant serif fonts and drop caps, while the color palette draws out the recurring hues of purple and gray used throughout his body of work. An illustrated map of his island travels at the beginning of the book doubles as the Table of Contents, which was designed to look like a map key. Each of the islands were illustrated on textured drawing paper with a piece of sharpened wood and black India ink for an authentic, hand-rendered quality that added to the story of his journey.



David's work has been featured in several fine art publications. He has also won multiple awards, including the most prestigious award in the art world, the California Art Club's Gold Medal for Best Painting. His book, David Gallup: California's Channel Islands, is sold at the Weisman Museum of Art and through the California Art Club.