Unexpected Prize!

I returned from the holiday break to a delightful surprise: Adrian Curry, of the Auteurs website, has deemed the Palindromes poster one of the 10 best movie posters of the decade! Thanks, Adrian!

Alistair Darling

He is one of the recent subjects for the German Newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, for whom I do two portraits or so a month. Does he dye his eyebrows black or his hair white?

Altpick Award!

More precisely an Honorable Mention for the series of architects that I did last year for Intelligent Life Magazine. Yay!

Genius Awards

This great event, The Stranger Magazine's Genius Award ceremony, featured my portrait artwork in two extreme sizes, the smallest and largest versions I have ever seen! The largest were the 10' x 10' banners, three of which are shown here.

They also had cupcakes made up with all of the images!!! I was so thrilled with the wonderfulness of these!

Time.com Detroit Blog

Time Magazine has bought a house in Detroit and set up some reporters to blog from there for the next year. They asked me to design the blog logo! (Blogo?)

A Worthy Tattoo!

Here is a bittersweet addition to my portfolio. I had drawn this portrait of Diane, a dear little dog, as part of a larger portrait of two friends of mine. She was recently killed in an accident, but will live on with in this wonderfully-wrought tattoo!

New works aplenty!

I can finally post two recent assignments, as they have now been published (or, in one case, nixxed, unfortunately):

1. A portrait of John Cheever, for Intelligent Life Magazine. This is such a beautiful magazine, but I was unable to find it in one of our largest book stores recently, so I'm afraid it may still be limited to UK and Europe. The limited online content is well worth a lookie, though, particularly the galleries.

This particular article examines what happens to writers when they sober up.

2. Stamps for the Royal Mail. I was so pleased with how these turned out, but then they cancelled this line, so I'm afraid these will go unused. Pity.

Kate Clinton editorial

I had so many lovely commissions last week: Intelligent Life Magazine, the Royal Mail (!), and the Progressive Magazine.  This is from the latter, for a brief piece in which Ms. Clinton sees the possibility of marriage to her longtime partner as something she maybe doesn't mind putting off for a bit longer...

I just finished another illustration for the wonderful magazine, Intelligent Life.  If you have not yet encountered it, it is a sister magazine to The Economist, with a focus on culture  For the last issue I drew a portrait of James Murdoch, heir to Rupert.  I am sworn to secrecy regarding the upcoming illo, but I can divulge that it has to do with John Cheever, and so here is a bit of his face:

Boston Globe Books Section

I am so pleased with this lovely huge illo I just did for the Boston Globe.  It was for a debut book of short stories by Tracy Winn.  The reviewer wrote that Ms. Winn "has a knack for laying bare the hidden desires and regrets that haunt her stifled protagonists", and I used that for my inspiration for this piece.  Thank you, Jane!