Archive for the 'illustration' Category



SILA West

Just got informed that this piece for Stocks & Commodities Magazine was accepted into the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles 50th Illustration West competition. Looking forward to seeing the show when it’s up at Galley Nucleus!

BOO!

Happy Halloween, everyone! This is an image I painted as a promo piece, to show clients that I can do political caricature. And given the time of year, it seemed logical to go with a Halloween theme for the image, so put politics + Halloween together and in my head, at least, you get Michelle [...]

Been a while since I’ve done a process post, so here are the steps for a job done two weeks ago for art director Todd Bates at Creative Loafing Tampa. The cover story was a fairly straightforward one: the Republican National Convention is coming to Tampa Bay next year, and the city is already looking [...]

Recent work

The Wall Street Journal iPad app version of the article Here are two recent assignments. First up was a job for Pete Hausler at the Wall Street Journal, for an article about women’s summer shoes that will destroy your feet. The night before it published, I was up late reading and it suddenly occurred to [...]

If any readers of this blog will be attending this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, then please come find me over at the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles booth, #2616! I’ll be doing an oil painting demo on Thursday at 2pm and a digital painting demo on Saturday at 2pm right at the SILA booth, located [...]

New work

Had a busy Memorial Day weekend doing work for some great new clients. First up was a cover and interior for Peter Storch over at the Phoenix New Times. The article was about Supreme Master Ching Hai and her chain of vegan restaurants called Loving Hut. The article notes her self-proclaimed status as a being [...]

Everyone’s favorite Scottish art director, Christine Morrison, called me back in December to do a cover for Stocks & Commodities Magazine. These articles tend to be dense, complex financial reports, so we always look for a hook within the text to base the illustration on. In this case, the writer made note of how the [...]

New work

Hitting the stands tomorrow—this cover for the latest SF Weekly. Always a pleasure to work with AD Andrew Nilsen.

New work

Detail shot of a magazine commission I just wrapped up last week. Probably my last post for 2010, so happy holidays to all, and I hope you’ll visit the blog again in 2011. I’ve already got my first post all planned out: a tour of my studio with amazing photography from my good friend Brad [...]

J.C. Leyendecker

It’s taken me a long time to finally post these images! Last summer, I spent an incredible morning studying several key J.C. Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post paintings up close and in person, and was able to take the following detail shots of a few of them. I’ll keep the owner’s identity anonymous to preserve privacy, [...]