Fierce, Ghostly Didion

I was so delighted to get the assignment to do Joan Didion for Intelligent Life Magazine. Her apparent frailty in appearance totally belies her continued ferocity. I find her the epitomy of cool.

In Airports Everywhere!

The new James Patterson book, Worst Case is finally out, and full of my illustrations! I was asked to conjure up the lead character's 10 adopted children. It was a hoot: I was given only ages and ethnicities, with maybe two words of description for each. Despite the meager descriptions, I tried to instill them with a lot of character. I can't even fathom the idea of millions of fans contemplating these characters, whom they have tried to imagine all of these years; it's a huge responsibility!

Dylan @ 70

Here's a fun one! Intelligent Life Magazine asked for Dylan portrait for his 70th birthday. Martin (Lovelock) said I could choose the era of my choosing, as long as it evoked essential "Bobness". This is a melding of two ages: the face of Dylan now, the iconic hair of earlier day, the stern aspect which is, apparently, timeless. It was hard to find any photos of this man expressing mirth!

NY Observer cover #2

Glad Carl Paladino isn't running here!

Stranger Mag Geniuses

It is time again for The Stranger Magazine's annual Genius Awards! For this year's portraits I experimented with doing entire bodies instead of just faces, all because I wanted to do a full figure of a horse for the film recipients. Susie Lee is shown with one of her characteristic performance shadows, and Jim Woodring holds one of his surreal creations.

NY Observer Cover!

Madness! NY Observer needed a rush job for its cover - George Steinbrenner had just died, and they needed to send the paper out at 5pm (2pm my time). Phone rang at 7am. Could I do it? Coffee and reference in by 8, final art delivered 1:24 PDT. Whew!

Communication Arts Award

This came in the mail today. Woefully, I have no lobby in which clients can admire it while they wait, so I am hanging it here, in my virtual lobby.

Popes!

This week's Stranger Magazine has a feature on the worst popes through history, by hilarious and talented writer Lindy West. I got to pick three of the most photogenic popes (from a surprisingly long list that began in 157 a.d.) for portraits.

Beards! + 1 Correction

I just sent out a new email campaign, featuring Beards in all of their tonsorial glory. Woefully, I blundered in one credit. This fellow, Chef Pietoso, was a commission from Cincinnati Magazine, not Cleveland Magazine. Sheesh, you'd never know I was from the midwest. My apologies, Grace!

Feature on the cool blog, Partfaliaz

I am so delighted and honored to have just secured a place on this great blog, Partfaliaz. The administrator, Antoine, is clearly very selective, choosing only artist whose work inspires him. Funny that this is a French site, and he chose to feature an illustration that is indeed supposed to represent a french woman, drawn for a wine label proposal.

What a great group in which to be to be included!