My First Wallpaper!

Textile designer Scott Bodenner found me to draw a rocket-themed wallpaper for an upcoming show at Fancy, here in Seattle. We used a template of a ribbon pattern that he already had. Very swooshy and fun. Can't wait to work on a toile with him!

Illustration Annual Winner!

I just received notification that my Cheever illustration has been selected for Communication Arts' Illustration Annual 51, coming out in May/June. They had only 155 winning projects from 6878 entries, so this is a delightful honor!

Phillip Blond

Here is another of my Welt am Sonntag portraits. He refers to himself as a "Radical Tory". Rather a lot of unkempt bangs for a Tory, I thought. Here is a quote from him:

"It's very clear we're in the middle of a paradigm shift," he says. "We are witnessing the end of the neoliberal project - just as 30 years ago we saw the end of Keynesianism. We're in a shift of comparable proportions. The interesting question is what comes next."

He takes it as given that Keynesianism is dead! Well I guess we will find out over the course of the next couple of years...

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.