My contribution to the Haiti benefit show "100 Heads for Haiti" that Dave Plunkert at SPUR Design has organized to benefit Doctors Without Borders

GOAL: $10,000

Original Art and a Group Poster print will be sold at the gallery, pieces will be sold on a first come, first serve basis. The remaining pieces & posters that do not sell at the gallery event will be available for purchase online for one month after the opening.

Original Art: $100 (plus tax) Two piece maximum per customer.
Group Poster: $50 (plus tax)

buy your very own DNA sequence ...  Mother Jones for the September issue

I did this portrait of Eminem for Rolling Stone magazine about 2 months ago.

This piece ran in the July/August issue of Atlantic Monthly, in the "Gallery" section. AD Jason Treat.

Calligraphy for Paris-based English language Idoménée, double-page intros for art, photography and fashion, as well as story and caption titles.

This is a poster I designed and illustrated for the film "Heaven on Earth" by Deepa Mehta.

     Recent work for the good people at Golf Digest Ken Delago, and Marne Mayer.

This food story was titled "Golfers Diet Retooled".

One of three reportage-type drawings of the kitchen at Fifteen, a restaurant in London.

This was done for the NYTimes Op-Ed.... I am thrilled that  Leanne Shapton was so open to my ideas using a big image of a snotty pig .....

Some archeologists think they've found the tomb of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony; others disagree.  But the NY Times Op-Ed article asserts that we'll never truly know Cleopatra whether we find her remains or not.  For more editorial art, visit my website.

     It's always a pleasure to work with Linda Rubes at Fortune Magazine.This Bald Eagle image is our latest collaboration.

I did this piece for the Boston Globe. The Globe wanted an image that spoke to the broadest sense of this holiday. This was a fun assignment for me being raised in a devout Catholic family with an atheist father.

An illustration for Phoenix Magazine, the article is poking fun at Cryonics which is the emerging medical technology of preserving humans with the intention of future revival.

I've been doing some new work and you'll find it allover my website.

Faced with a downturn in business, Japanese salarymen are left with less to do at work.  Some are visiting their gym, some are actually eating dinners with their family (!), and some are writing poetry---senru, to be exact (think haiku; the two forms are somewhat related).  Business Week magazine asked me to illustrate the story and what could be better for combining image and calligraphy?  For more editorial illustrations visit our website: warddraw.com.

A while ago, I worked with UK based new mobile phone company INQ Mobile on their packaging. Now, this Facebook friendly phone targeted toward younger generation is landing in Hong Kong and Taiwan. This photo is from the last week's The Apple Daily, one of the biggest local newspapers in Hong Kong.
Friends Marcos Chin and Sara Varon has also worked on the project, and the box comes with instrucition cards decorated with their art.

I'm pleased to write that I'm now represented in San Francisco at George Lawson's gallery, room for painting room for paper, 49 Geary 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108.

I created this Monotype as a demo during Gwyn Stramler's Saturday printmaking workshop at Wet Hill Studios. Printmaking has to be the most exciting and rewarding mediums for any artist. It was a great day of inspiration watching the artists extend their styles into a new medium. 12"x15" image area, printed on Japanese paper-sold

the wait is finally over! ... introducing dinkydot ... what? ya dinkydot

dinkydot is now available at T26

Portrait of Lisa Kudrow & Smelly Cat for Entertainment Weekly's section called
"My Favorite Year"

Portrait of Kanye West for Rolling Stone's review of his CD: "808s & Heartbreak"

These are five of my images from the past year that were selected for the Society of Illustrators Advertising Annual.   The show runs from March 4th through March 28th.  128 East 63 street, NYC.  Top to bottom:  "As You Like It" poster for Soulpepper Theatre, ICON5 poster for The Illustration Conference, "Ring Around the Moon" poster for Soulpepper Theatre, an ad for MTV, and "A Raisin in the Sun" poster for Soulpepper Theatre.

A tale of personhood: born and earned. You can read the short story here. More updates and news on my website.

I painted this portrait of John Walker Lindh for Fred Woodward and Thomas Alberty at G.Q. Magazine.  The story, told by his father, was a more empathetic view of John as a member of the Taliban in Afghanistan. The illustration describes a narrative moment when Lindh and his fellow fighters are under siege from the Afghan Northern Alliance.

This is a recent cover for The New Republic magazine along with another image that was used on the inside first page of the magazine.

Please come visit my new site....www.danpage.net

The image above was done for CFO magazine, originally commissioned for the cover, but never made it. The topic was on the banking credit crisis, the article titled "Clamor and Trickle". And thanks to the Hoover Dam for inspiration.

This is my contribution to the 'Cut to the Drummer' show, a portrait of Phil Selway from Radiohead.  More info on the exhibit can be found here at cuttothedrummer.com.  The art is 16" x 20", acrylic and pencil on masonite

Portrait of Tre Cool of Green Day, part of "Cut to the Drummer" show - 50 drummers by 50 artists, currently showing at the Steam Whistle Gallery in Toronto - from Feb. 5 to Feb. 28th. A portion of the sales will support the MS Society of Canada Scholarship program.

Creativity is the engine of the modern economy.

Cover and selected interiors for a recent project commissioned by the country of Ireland's Western Development Commission.  Economists there had completed a study focusing on the creative industries and their economic impact within the seven western states of Ireland. 

These are spreads from a small book created for the San Francisco Center for the Book. I was asked to create a piece on the subject of anatomy and I chose to write and illustrate an event that happened early in my life in which I was accused of being a pornographer. Other artists who have done work for this series include Michael Bartalos, Nigel Poor, John Hersey, Ala Ebtekar, Tucker Nichols, Nora Pauwels + John Demeritt, and William Wiley. 

     This image is one of two for Bob Newman and Todd Albertson over at AARP Magazine (Worlds largest Circulation!, 25 million +). The story detailed 50 ideas submitted my their readers on how to save money during these trying times. 

The N Y Times Book Review asked a number of illustrators to draw Lincoln; I gave them two pieces to choose from, and they chose to run both, one on the cover, and one inside. Yuko Shimizu's portrait is centerpiece of the group of illustrations on the cover.

For more of my likenesses, visit my portfolio at warddraw.com

I created these Illustrations for a cover assignment for The Deal magazine. Art Director Lawrence Gendron requested my Inky Style for a story illustrating the borrowing & lending crisis which has made it difficult for companies to borrow money which in turn makes it impossible to do anything.        
monotypes- oil on paper-11" x 15"

Assignment for Foreign Policy magazine, an article on micro finance, the practice of providing loans and savings accounts to the poor.

A book cover for Peachpit Press.  Art Director Charlene Will with authors Olav Martin Kvern & David Blatner wanted to portray a steam punk factory on their CS4 cover. This book has been recommended by members of the Adobe InDesign development team.

I was commissioned by AD Michele Chu to do 3 illustrations for a feature "5O Ways to Improve Your Life in 2009", my segment focused on "Your Mind". One way to improve your mind, illustrated above, was to "Investigate Tales of Edgar Allen Poe". At the start of the assignment, I jokingly asked Michele if "thinking of illustration conceps" was on the list, she was quick to respond, "No, that's way too strenuous".

This is a spread from a sportswear fashion LookBook that ran in Europe.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

More updates here.

I'll be showing three pieces as part of "NEW YEAR | NEW ART" at HCG Gallery in Dallas, January 16-February 14th. Opening reception Friday, January 16th, from 5-8pm. The show includes work by:

Susan Budge, Danville Chadbourne, Adriana Carvalho, Madeline Denaro, David Rainey, Karen Garrett, Penelope Speier, Shane Pennington, David McCullough, Ansen Seale

HCG Gallery | 1130 Dragon Street (off Howell) | Dallas Texas | www.hcggallery.com | 214.760.9230

Recent work for Prevention Magazine on how the uncontrolled eating of healthy foods can also make you gain weight.

Congratulations to artist Gwyn Stramler for having one of her paintings from her current series: "Dirt Cloud and Ellipse" selected for exhibition in The 75th Crocker-Kingsley Biennial.

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The opening of the 2009 Crocker-Kingsley  Biennial attracted  around 500 people. The Mayor of Sacramento was there alongside a funny mix of young , medium and old artists  and their entourages.The patriarchal  Crocker folks seemed to enjoy the contemporary art. Artist and designer Dennis McCleod of Armario Design had one of his fine ink drawings included, congrats Dennis!.
 

Happy 2009! My New Year's card illustrates some constellations unique to the southern hemisphere: Centaurus, Cetus, Hydra, Scorpio, and Piscis Austrinus. The concept was inspired by Uranometria, a beautifully engraved star atlas of 1603 (the first to cover the entire celestial sphere), and by my recent travels south of the equator.

I'm currently at McMurdo Station in Antarctica for my project called The Art of Recycling in Antarctica : The Long View. I'll be here for most of January and you're invited to follow along on my dedicated project blog hosted by the California Academy of Sciences.

Incidentally, I won't see any constellations during my time here. At this deep southern latitude, the sun won't set till autumn.

This Op-Ed piece I did on Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was selected for The New York Times "Notable Opinion Art of 2008".  PM's Sam Weber and Christian Northeast are also part of the show which can be viewed HERE.

Have a happy 2009 !

I was invited by costume designer, Han Feng, to shoot the fittings for Amy Tan's new opera Bonesetter's Daughter at the San Francisco Opera. See some of what I photographed on the photo section of my website.

Cover of The Boston Globe's, "G" mag. The headline says it all.

 Tim Hussey is currently represented by Rebekah Jacob Gallery in Charleston, SC

 Tim Hussey is currently represented by Rebekah Jacob Gallery in Charleston, SC

 Tim Hussey is currently represented by Rebekah Jacob Gallery in Charleston, SC

 Tim Hussey is currently represented by Rebekah Jacob Gallery in Charleston, SC

Recent art for BusinessWeek.Dividend investing and techniques for tracking down those elusive gems.

Portrait of André Chagnon for Canadian Business Magazine's "Canada's 100 Wealthiest People" feature.

This is a recent cover for the Warner Bros./ Reprise Records "Guide" cover, an in house publication which lists all of the music released by the company.  I did all of the hand lettering on this project as well. 

I appreciate an art director who can see calligraphy as illustration.  Larry Gendron of The Deal asked for this calligraphic piece in place of picto-illustration for an article on changes in terms brought on by the present financial crisis.

I did this illustration for Soojin Buzelli at Planadviser magazine. The story was about selecting advisers crucial to qualified default investment alternatives (QDIAs). Lucky for me that understanding the story was not necessary for making a fun illustration. The issue was packed full of illustrations including cover art by Jillian Tamaki.

I had the honor to create the cover art for the Directory of Illustration No.25, commissioned by David Plunkert of Spur Design, great working with you Dave and all the classy people at the Directory of Illustration. As you can see, it was a fun assignment.

I'll have 9 new pieces on exhibit with Slias Marder Gallery as part of SCOPE/ Art Basel Miami, December 3 - 7, 2008

SCOPE/ Miami
2951 NE 1st Avenue & NE 30th Street
Miami, FL 33127
Wynwood District

FAIR HOURS
First View - VIP & Press - Wednesday, December 3 10am - 6pm
Thursday, December 4 10am - 7pm
Friday, December 5 10am - 7pm
Saturday, December 6 10am - 7pm
Sunday, December 7 10am - 6pm

ADMISSION
First View Admission $100
General Admission $15

All tickets include admission to ART ASIA

Illustration for Time magazine, part of a larger feature, "The Year in Medicine". The article I illustrated was about the gender gap disappearing when it comes to math. Up until now, boys were considered smarter...not any more fellas! Other illustrators that contributed to this feature; Viktor Koen, Harry Campbell, John Ritter, Dave Wheeler and Tavis Coburn.

6 post-its for the post-it show at Giant Robot in LA on December 12

I did this piece for the Healthy Living cover of the Dallas Morning News. When running marathons athletic physical power isn’t  enough, you need the mind. "If you believe you can do it, you can do it". Art Direction, Michael Hogue

This was for the NYT, for a story about missing out on deeper friendships with neighborhood workers whose businesses have closed. I think it's a good stand-alone image on the state of our flailing economy.

      This unpublished image I made for Business Week was the inspiration for the current postcard promo. Yes, I never get tired of personifying machines.

For a recent New York Times Book Review,  I created a gouache painting of the explorer Samuel de Champlain. For more of my editorial paintings, visit my website. I've also mounted paintings of my trip to Papua New Guinea.

These are from the end papers of a crazy book I've been hard at work on for a number of months now, due out in fall of 2009.  They represent one of four pieces appearing in the freshly released American Illustration 27 annual book.

I was so inspired after the election that I made a portrait of Barack Obama . Yesterday I made this portrait of John McCain. oil on paper | 12" x 15"

Assigned by Tim Davin at Canadian Business, nice layout, eh?

This image was done for CFO magazine, a banking article discussing how corporate lines of credit will be more expensive and tougher to keep.

My Latin Jazz stamp is available in post offices and online now! The 42-cent commemoratives come twenty to a sheet. Much thanks to AD Dick Sheaff who previously coached my Marathon stamp across the finish line.

I'm also excited to announce the launch of my two new websites:

Bartalosillustration.com is the new home for my illustration portfolio, showcasing client-commissioned assignments such as the stamp and new California Academy of Sciences display & merchandise graphics.

Bartalos.com focuses on personal work, printmaking, book arts, editions, residencies, grants (Antarctica!) and independent projects of all kinds.

Both sites feature blogs with news on what I'm up to.

Big thanks to SF friends Brian Scott at Boon Design and Max La Riviere-Hedrick at futureprüf for making both sites happen.

hi there ... SooJin and Chris Buzelli are giving a talk at CCA in SF on October the 29th at 7:30pm in the Timken Hall ... come one come all.

Barack Obama | oil on paper | 12" x 15"

 This is a new beer label I've illustrated for Deschutes Brewery, which is based in Bend, Oregon.  More info on the brew here.

Phoenix Magazine | "The Devil and Ronnie Marquez"
A Phoenix man involved in the bloody exorcism of his 3-year-old granddaughter died unexpectedly in the summer of 2007. Did police officers electrocute him, or was he the victim of his own demons?  Art Direction , Brian Goddard
interview with Downs regarding this assignment

Autopsy report  indicates Ronnie Marquez was tased 22 times.

Cynthia , Ronnie's daughter was found in a corner clutching a photograph of the Pope. This illustration accepted into New York Society of Illustrators 51

Cynthia's daughter, Martha had to be wrestled from Ronnie's grip and passed through a small window to a relative.

Recent work, based on a very funny read by Dennis Leary for Playboy titled "Grande Vente Mocha Oprah Chai".

Here are some photos from my current show in Toronto. Please click HERE for more photos and a view of the works in the exhibition

This piece is for Strategic Finance magazine for a story about the SBA.Did you know that Fed-Ex, Nike, and many other corporations got their start from SBA loans?. Art Direction, Mary Zisk

This piece is for art director Patrick JB Flynn at ReThinking Schools.African American children are routinely treated with harsher punishment compared to their white classmates.Many of these kids come from challenged households and the public school system has to be a place of neutrality. This assignment echoed similar stories that my black adult friends have told me about growing up with the same obstacles.

For Miami Magazine, article titled "As the World Turns", discussing updated info on global warming.

I’ll be showing works on paper in a group show celebrating Stir Gallery’s new and larger space at 1 Mao Ming South Road, Shanghai.   You are invited to the reopening party Saturday, Sept. 13th, 2008, 3-8 pm. Other North American artists include Henrik Drescher and Wu Wing Yee

搞艺术画廊已搬至更大的空间。200平米的空间依旧位于交通方便的市中。新址将于2008年9月1日开始营业。
我们诚邀您出席新址开幕酒会：2008年9月13日（星期六），下午3－8点。
新址开幕将展出艺术家 胡咏仪，Ward Schumaker，定光琴，Henrik Drescher, 冯健伟，Miki Hsu Leavey 等的最新作品。展出时间：2008年9月1日至9月30日。
我们将继续展现富有创意和高质量的艺术作品。感激您的支持！

This opener for Men's Health was used for an article describing the effects of caffeine on the heart.

A new theory called Anticipatory Regulation describes how the brain regulates exercise performance to protect the body from dangerous levels of exhaustion. Runner's World magazine , Marc Kauffman art direction.

Funny how one job leads to another: I'm asked to draw shoes for Paris-based Hermès an announcement of les objets Hermès Printemps-Été 2008; that leads to drawing Christian Louboutin shoes for Four Seasons in North Carolina; which leads to drawing tango shoes for the University of Minnesota.  Is it just that people are picking  up on my last name?  

Jimmy Luntz and Old Ernest Gambol.

This NYTimes OP-ED ran last week, and like Vivienne mentioned in her recent post, I was honored to create one of the last pieces that Brian Rea commissioned before he left.

The story: "Harvesting Money in a Hungry World"

     An image for the Deloitte Review. The story "Seeing The World Through Risk Colored Glasses", dealt with the ability to judge risk in the corporate world.

Brian Rea is leaving the NY Times to move to Los Angeles.  I've always enjoyed working for him, but I was especially flattered that he chose me for his last assignment. On top of that, it was a really interesting article, about the question of sex testing of Olympic athletes.  For other editorial art, check out my website.  

Back in 2003, Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville mounted a show of works by Picture Mechanics members.  I've continued to show there, as has Tim Hussey.  We both have works in a show, Works on Paper, that opens August 2, 2008 and continues through September 20th.  There'll be an opening party Saturday night from 7 until 10.  If you're in the area, drop by.  Above are two of the five collages I'll be showing.  For more, visit my website.

I was invited to create an image for The New Graphic Magazine based in China. Works from around the world focus on China's massive earthquake. It aims at collecting visual works to encourage people in the affected areas, advocate humanitarian spirit, and make more people at home and abroad pay attention to relief efforts.

All works involved will be published in the August issue of New Graphic magazine accompanied by an exhibition, raising funds, going to the affected areas. 

Title: Piece Together

Canadian securities regulation has proposed oath based guidelines of honesty and integrity to prevent accounting fraud and help protect pensioners. Canadian Business Magazine, John Montgomery art direction.

This image was created for the launch issue of Standpoint Magazine, London UK. ( May 29, 2008 )
The editor Daniel Johnson and art director Ingrid Shields wanted me to play off those fabulous photos of Putin posing for the cameras with fishing gear and chest bared..russian style. What a great assignment !

I also love how this echoes Eddie Guys' piece.
Good timing that it took me an entire month to post this.

     A recent cover for The American magazine, Art Director Anthony Kosner.

This is part of a series of posters I've done this year for Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre Company.

This was for the front page of the Week in Review section of the New York Times. The story was about the Tony award nominees. The writer liked the plays, but felt that they all shared a similar quality of taking on tough subjects in a manner that wasn't very challenging, a little like TV on the stage.  I really wanted to avoid all the tired Broadway references of stages, curtains, lights...etc. I decided to pull words from the story to create a soothing tube of Broadway ointment. The editors changed a bit of the text, but left most of it intact.

I did this recently for Linda Koury at Storage magazine.  It was part of a cover package illustrating something about high speed flash memory, called Tier-O.

I did this image for this week's issue of Time magazine. One of four illustrations dealing with overweight children. This image focused on self esteem issues with an overweight child.

This is the poster I created for ICON5, The Illustration Conference, which takes place in New York City from July 2-6.  The image is being used on street banners in the city, on the program cover, posters, and a variety of other collateral material.  I had a lot of fun working on this one, hope to see you at the conference.

Recent work for Ken Delago at Golf Digest.

This story was about sunburn, cancer and skin care for golfers. 

Detail from a DVD packaging illustration for "CorelDRAW® X4" from Lynda.com  

A small painting I just finished for an upcoming charity auction in support of a student scholarship. It was a fun opportunity to work on a personal project. More information about the auction itself should be up on Irene Gallo's blog sometime in the near future. For those of you who don't know Irene, she's the incredible art director over at Tor books.

This illustration is for the cover of today's New York Times Book Review.  The featured book is titled "Netherland" by Joseph O'Neill.  The storyline is a complex mix of life in New York City after 9/11 and the solace the main character finds in the world of cricket players in the city. 

some watercolours from my open studio thing last weekend

Just delivered this full-pager to California for an article on Ethiopian hominids.

Always a pleasure to work for such an interesting and erudite magazine!

Brown Alumni Magazine | POV essay about a single mom raising her detached teenage son

Here are two of the three new paintings I have in " Big Show 3" at Silas Marder gallery in Bridegehampton, NY May 17-June 22. All three are small (8" x 10" on wood panel) in keeping with the format of this annual show. There'll be 50 different artists exhibiting, each with three panels, and the opening will be 5-8pm Saturday, May 17th. If you're in the area, come take a look.

Silas Marder Gallery
120 Snake Hollow road
Bridgehampton, NY 11932
www.silasmarder.com

Nicholas Blechman, art director of NYT Book Review, is the only art director as far as I know who let illustrators do whatever we want without checking our sketches. And, surprisingly or not surprisingly (I vote for the latter) most of us do the best job when we are given the trust and freedom. These four illustrations for review of new Chinese novels were some of the most fun assignments I had recently. Thank you Nicholas.

These 2 images were created for Reader's Digest, "You Be the Judge" column, where they discuss a case that's already been tried and give the reader a chance to make their own judgement. Victoria Nightingale, the AD, wanted the 2 illustrations to have a sequence like effect or even a diptych quality. This case was about a highway accident back in the early 80's, where a woman crossing the road gets accidentally hit, on coming cars stop to help, one of the helpers ends of getting hit by another car... the lawsuits unfold. The cases are never black and white, a lot of details cannot be included in such small spots that usually run 2 and a half inches square.

I recently completed these two images for The Oakland Zoo.

I did this image for Investment Advisor magazine. The topic was about a new way of paying your taxes... either way, you gotta pay.

I made these images for San Jose University for a piece about race and culture.

     Recent work for Chris Curry at the New Yorker.

Lenny Dykstra is launching a new magazine called "The Players Club",

for professional atheletes. The story involves Lennys personality and

details of this unusual new business venture. 

I've been doing a series of small collages, 6" x 9", made up from killed and/or rejected sketches from old illustration files.  Twenty-five of them are mounted on my website under Other Work.

"Celia the Queen", a documentary film project I've been involved with has been selected for The Tribeca Film Festival.  I worked on the poster artwork and was interviewed for the film, along with my father.  The film is about the life of the Cuban singer Celia Cruz.   Here is the film's website: celiathequeen.com

If you'd like to see the film, here's a link to the Tribeca website, check it out for schedules and ticket information

I made this cover image for Charles Hively's new mag, Voir. Voir is devoted to artist/illustartor's studios and features photos of us (Greg Clarke, Jody Hewgill, Benoit Van Innes + others) at work. Copies can be ordered online at www.3x3mag.com/books.

Below are a few drawings for an upcoming show.  The Opening is on Saturday April 12th, 7:00pm to 11:00pm

Power in Numbers
April 12 to April 28, 2008
Gallery Nucleus
210 East Main Street
Alhambra, CA  91801

These are stills from an animated television advertisement campaign that I worked on that got killed after we made eight commercials.  The client liked my sketchbooks and wanted a quickly drawn, primitive look.  I drew them straight to paper using Sharpies and watercolors, very fun.

I painted these sketchbook drawings of Rajiv and Earl at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with my Illustrative Storytelling class.  Where, you might ask, is the museum?  Who cares... Ha! These guys are a lot of fun to draw.

The great thing was the school children.  Hundreds of kids arrived at the museum as we were drawing, and slowly they began to get closer to where we were. Many of the kids were tumbling and rolling down a grassy knoll that slopes up to the roof of the dinosaur museum. Finally, on both days, their curiosity got the best of them as they rolled right into our art supplies and easels.

From this past Saturday. I love doing simple and direct stuff like this.

     Recent work for Oprah Magazine "Weight" story. 

A piece about the recent population boom in Dallas Texas 

Visual commentary on the contemporary woman.

I have an opening for a book i have designed and help produce at the San Francisco Center for the Book. Its 4x4 inches letterpress with 2 colours in one signature and hand bound pamphlet-stitched with laser cut chipboard covers and a few with laser cut finished plywood covers. Come over on Friday evening from 6-8pm at the Center for the Book and have a glass of wine and check it out.

I've got a new book coming out, Alfred's Nose (Harper Collins).  It's for children and surprisingly, it's not pastels; it's my first book of photographs.  You can visit a website especially made for the book: alfredthebulldog.com

Cover to this month's Progressive, about Winter Soldier: Iraq war veterans testify about atrocities and warcrimes.

These are a couple of images that were selected for the current Society of Illustrators Editorial and Book exhibition.  The top image is a cover for a book titled "The Surrender Tree".  The bottom image accompanied a review of the film Eagle vs. Shark in The New Yorker.  

My recent show at Meridian Gallery got picked up by UC Berkeley's Townsend Center for Humanities.  A conference center featuring such speakers as Hilton Als and Greil Marcus, the Townsend Center has shown artists like Squeak Carnwath and Katherine Sherwood.  The fourteen paintings on paper and ten hand-painted books which make up the show will be on display until the end of May.  For a review of the show as it appeared at Meridian, visit the Kala blogsite.

Get your Motor Running-The internet has become the gear heads ultimate playground from motor blogs to NASCAR

This is one in a series of illustrations that won a silver lion at the Cannes Advertisiing awards last year. They were made in an effort to recruit new police officers for the El Segundo Police Department in LA.

I was invited to contribute an image for "FEFE" - Free Entry Free Exit , a visual arts magazine based in Rome, Italy. It showcases graphic design, Illustration, Photo, and visual art from around the world. Each issue deals with a different theme - a phrase from a movie with 25 diverse artists creating a visual based on the phrase, the phrase I had to work with; IT WASN'T PLANNED, from the movie "Intimate Strangers" by P.Leconte.

My artist statement that accompanied my image:

"The plan was to have some fun together, but it wasn't planned when she started breaking my balls.

Italian Translation:

"Il piano era di divertici insieme, ma non era in programma che lei iniziasse a rompermi le palle."

Here's a label I've just done for a new red wine created by St. Supéry Vinyards.

Last month, I got a call from Burke Owens at Bonny Doon Vineyard to create art for a new dessert wine they're introducing called Angel Paille, or Angel Pie: a sweet wine made from Grenache Blanc grapes, which are picked ripe and then dried on mats in the vineyard before pressing. The wine was described to me as "lush, with a pale gold color and sweet pear, quince and spearmint aromas", and the vineyard where the grapes were grown is named Beehive. The rest was as easy as pie.

This painting is part of the series of posters I've been commissioned to create this year for Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto.  The play runs until April 19th.

"An evil duke. A motley Fool. A gaggle of country bumpkins.  A melancholy philosopher.  A girl, pretending to be a boy, pretending to be a girl in order to woo a boy.  All the world is a stage, and in this play the stage is crowded with love and laughter and a delicious cast of players."

     This image was made several years ago for Men's Health Magazine. The content of the  story dealt with dating rituals. 

For a story about a guy who can't stand idling cars in his community/ski resort town. He helps control the problem by switching the cars off himself.

 The goal with the final was was something that looked militant and a little angry.

My 1950's J.C. Whitney auto parts catalogue came in handy. 

Did this poster image in one of my drawing classes at Art Center.  The image is drawn from a costume model, and then the rest of the image is a kind of "stream of consciousness" process.  The words might be based on something the model said, and the background figures are invented figures or whatever else jumps into my head as I'm drawing the piece.  There are no pencil lines, and no attempt to map out or lay-in the image.  It's what my old friend James McMullan calls "flying by the seat of your pants."

I try to encourage my students to save a place in their lives for a kind of "playful" exploration of image and ideas. These pieces take 2 to 3 hours. 

I painted this picture at the South campus of the Art Center College of Design, with my watercolor students.  I used Schmincke watercolor, a 18" X 24" Aquarelle Arches watercolor block; cold pressed, 140 lb paper, and a Raphael Kolinsky 8403 sable brush #8, a #4 Raphael squirrel hair mop, and a bit of white gouache. 

The Glenarm Power plant Fountain was built in 1927, and is the property of the Art Center College of Design. 

In conjunction with my show at San Francisco's Meridian Gallery, The Worn Ensemble will be playing works by Redmond, Schnittke, Sydeman, and my son Matt Schumaker.

The Worn Chamber Ensemble
at the Meridian Gallery
 
Monday, February 25, 2008 8pm  $10 admission $5 student
535 Powell Street @ Sutter, San Francisco, CA.

The Worn Chamber Ensemble
Loren Mach, percussion
Vanessa Ruotolo, cello
Richard Worn, bass

Program:
Vapeurs for solo bass by Jared Redmond
Hymn II for cello and bass by Alfred Schnittke
Suspended for cello, bass and electronics by Matt Schumaker
Duo for Xylophone and Double Bass by William Sydeman

Hope you can attend!

DVD packaging illustration for video training on Microsoft products from Lynda.com. This illustration is for the "Entourage for Windows" DVD and wraps around the package.

A piece for this week's New Yorker, accompanying an Alice Munro short story.

 In the courtroom, the recent bride of a wealthy man battles his children for his fortune.

I was able to be conceptual with this, so I used the metaphor of the pie to show  that she was getting the whole sum.

     Current "Hot List" issue of Golf Digest.

 

These are the covers of the first two of a new young adult series, "Gym Shorts," by Betty Hicks, that I've been illustrating.  It's a smart series about a group of neighborhood friends and each book focuses on the different sports activities that the kids pursue.

DVD packaging illustration for video training from Lynda.com. This illustration is for the "WordPerfect" DVD and wraps around the package.

For the New York Times a few months back. Tech story about Twitter. 

I did this illustration for Robert Lesser at CFO magazine. I've been working with Robert for about 10 years now, a great guy and a big fan of illustration. He always puts you on speaker phone when he calls, makes you feel like one of Charlie's angels - VIP treatment all the way. This is the latest assignment I did for him. I love his final layout, the design and art become one.

This is a poster I did for the Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner.  The image was used in ads, merchandise, the Playbill cover, and on the front of the theater.  Other Broadway posters I've illustrated can be seen here.

 "Pearle & Leif", acrylic 4" square

I was invited to participate in "The Enormous Tiny Art Show" at Nahcotta Gallery in Portsmouth New Hampshire.  The concept is no artwork can be larger than 6" square.  I had fun making a series of abstract acrylic paintings.

If anyone in the greater Boston area can make it, they're supposed to throw a mighty fine opening.  Fellow Picture mechanic Calef Brown is also participating along with some other fine folks.  Friday, February 8, 5pm, show runs until March 9.

These are developed sketches for an article about Unami, which describes the flavor common to savory products such as meat.
I had fun creating these images because it was so unusual, and I was allowed
complete freedom with the concept.
The published pieces are  number 4 and number 9, if reading left to right, top to bottom.

For the Japan! Culture and Hyperculture series at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Kelly Doe gave me an opportunity to employ a style reminiscent of the 1960's which I had only used once before, for Plum Magazine.  These images were used in a lavish book  highlighting various Japanese performers.  Find them and more on my website under Annual Reports.  While the images for the actual book contain photos provided by the client, many of the out-takes contain photos I, myself, took in Japan. 

A tiny little painting ( 8" x 8" acrylic on wood panel ) for the Know Show in Miami, curated by Mark Murphy.

I was commissioned by Soulpepper Theater in Toronto to create artwork for their entire 2008 season of plays.  This is the first in a series of 8 posters, "Salt-Water Moon", by David French, a story about the playwright's family in Newfoundland.  The show runs until January 31.  More of my poster artwork can be seen here.  Thanks to D. Page for the kind words below.  I'll miss working with illustrators through TIME, but It's great to be working on my projects full time.

This post is in honor of fellow illustrator / Picture Mechanic and now former Art Director of Time magazine, Edel Rodriguez. I've been doing assignments for Edel since 1999. We actually met face to face before he ever hired me. I was in New York in 1998 for the American Illustration Publication Party and back then AI sponsored studio tours, which was exciting for a young illustrator, plus we had the option to get guided tours of select magazine offices. It was a good opportunity to drop off a promo right in the hands of an AD.

Time magazine was my top choice since I always dreamed of working for them. Our group of about 20 arrived greeted by our tour guide, Art Director, Arthur Hochstein. It was thrilling to be in his corner office 50 floors up as he showed us Anita Kunz, C.F. Payne, Tim O'Brien and Matt Mahurin originals. You could tell Arthur was a big fan of Illustration by the excitement in his voice. He then took us to show off the rest of the offices - he made a point to take the group to Edel's office, (of course, I've never heard of him), Edel actually wasn't in his office when we all dropped by. His role as an illustrator was emerging at that time, and Arthur wanted the group to know it. I peered into his office noticing some of his cool drawings of Cuba hanging on the wall. As the group moved on, I quickly ran into his office and placed my little promo on his chair. You never know, right?

That day I was also lucky enough to meet and visit the studios of Guy Billout, Dan Yaccarino, Jordin Isip and Melinda Beck. Later that night I attended the American Illustration publication party. I felt out of place, seemed like everyone knew each other, I bumped into Jordin Isip, hey, here's someone I know... well, sort of. Jordin was nice enough to introduce me to his friend he was in the middle of a conversation with. Lo and behold... it was Edel Rodriguez! To end a long story, he liked my promo and hired me over the next nine years. A BIG thanks Edel, loved working with you. I wish you great success as a full time illustrator.

Below are a few of my favorite images I did for Edel.

Subtleties of language

Questioning paternity

One from a series of line drawings commissioned from my sketchbook work, for Harvard Law Bulletin. This fellow C.C. is the founder of Harvard.

I did this Image for Michael Hogue at the Dallas Morning News. Contrary to popular belief, having a Starbucks moving next door to your mom and pop coffee shop is good for business.

I'll be showing large works on paper and hand-painted books from January 24th thru March 1rst in the second floor Drawing Room of the Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell, San Francisco.  I'd love it if any of you could come to the opening, Thursday, January 24th, 6-9pm.

(above: Belly Dancer and No More Names, mixed media on paper, 38" x 50" each)

this is my image from the Mark Murphy Green show- Robert Berman Gallery from December-  title  - Last Dream Before Entropy  24" x 24 " Polymers on tin box

Near Death gambles for The Mariner's soul.

 
Vostok is an artist’s book edition I created in collaboration with Dolphin Press & Print in Baltimore during my visiting faculty residency at MICA. The project was letterpress and screen printed in an edition of 30 and facilitated by Illustration Chair Whitney Sherman.

Vostok refers to the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica. Preliminary research suggests that Lake Vostok supports active micro-organisms that evolved in isolation for several millions of years. However until scientists devise a way to study this uniquely pristine environment without contaminating it, its life forms remain as much a mystery as those beyond our atmosphere. Vostok drills deep to reveal a trajectory between deep ice and deep space.

Copies are available for purchase and the proceeds help fund MICA's residency programs.

Happy 2008

A recent experimental piece, for Ronn Campisi Design

 
Cheers! A festive wraparound glass design for Brewery Ommegang's 10th Anniversary Gift Pack that includes a variety of their Belgian-style ales. Art director was Maia Fong who also commissioned the Giro bike helmet in my website's "product" category.

Recent cover art for Matt Petty at SF Chronicle.

     Here are two of seven full page openers for Ken DeLago at Golf Digest.

Ken's been doing some great work and seems to favor large illustration

assignments.

An image for Rolling Stone magazine's Alternate Takes column - Joe Levy writes about the degradation of sound quality, comparing the differences between Vinyl, CDs and MP3s.

I worked with John Zello of Cramer Krasselt on this series of Ads for SRP, an energy company in Phoenix, Arizona.

This piece didn't have a title when I painted it, and I can't find a copy of Playboy (December 07) to save my life.  So I'll just call it "Tempted."  It is a story about a temptress who uses her charms to gain access to a man and his possessions.

This is a narrative moment from the story.  Having been allured, the man and his seductress are driving to his country house. He thinks he is going to get laid. She is wanting to know what kind of wealth he has, and where it is. As it happens, she is a thief.

I hired a model named Karen. She arrived in a killer outfit; all black, leather jacket, boots and bag, and I sat her in a car with another model. I tried several light sources, finally lighting her with an Omni light through the sunroof of the car. I lit the driver as if on-coming head lights were shining on him. I found some wonderful scrap for the background, and thought of those creepy, wind swept trees that you see all around San Francisco. I realize that the yellow light around the woman's face is a bit of a conceit, but I thought it helped to clarify the focal point, it gave her a haunting quality, and it provided a much needed compliment to all that blue and violet.

I painted this in my sketchbook at the Los Angeles Marina.  The boat belongs to my friend, Scott.  The pirate is a model named Hunter.  My students and I were sitting on the dock where the boat was tied.  I tried to get close to the subject so that I could utilize strong diagonals in the composition.  We did our drawings in about 3 hours.

This image was commissioned by Time Magazine as seen above in last week's issue - the topic was "possible recession", discussing what may happen to the U.S. economy the way things are going with struggling banks, the volatile stock market, oil prices, the weak U.S. dollar, nervous investors in far-off lands and the collapsing housing market. The number in the bar code refers to "dollars spent per hour by American consumers in the third quarter of 2007". That's over a trillion dollars - $ 1, 117, 077, 626.00 ... in case you're having trouble seeing the amount without the commas.

I did 4 additional spots for the article which discusses possible ways to survive a down turn. This image deals with, Your Home: Hang On; find a fixed rate fast.

I recently created this piece for Art Basel Miami, which I'm participating in as part of the KNOW Art Books Exhibition. If you happen to be there December 6-9, then drop in and see the work. The place to be is:

Claremont Hotel
Space 215
1700 Collins Avenue (17th St)
Miami Beach : FL
December 6 – 9 : 2007
10 am - 8 pm

This greeting card image is for Branch, an environmentally conscious online store based in San Francisco. Its proprietor is none other than our good friend Paul Donald who hosted the San Francisco Picture Mechanics exhibition at Gallery 69A back in March of '02! The cards are available for purchase here.

an up with people image i made for nicholas blechman for his upcoming publication nozone, on the theme of forecast

This is a watercolor painting I did with my watercolor class while we were on-location in Pasadena's Arroyo Secco Park.  I gave the students instructions to select and paint a tree from the many kinds of trees in the park.  I chose this beautiful, lonely, old Eucalyptus tree.  The painting took about 7 hours. I used an Aquarell Schmincke watercolor pan set with 36 colors, Raphael Kolinski 8404 sable brushes #12 and #9, and squirrel hair mops, on a Aquarelle Arches, cold pressed, 18" X 24" watercolor block.  I used a wooden, Julian half easel and an umbrella for shade. 

I used to dread the idea of painting from nature, especially if anyone else was around. But alas, I've come to a point where I really look forward to the chance! 

What I tell the students is paint light to dark with watercolor. And try to complete the form (of the tree) in 3 values and 3 washes only. The techniques I teach are; transparent layering, gradation, wet into wet, fusion, dry brush and blotting.

I did this drawing in my sketchbook at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. 

I just did this on Thanksgiving for Sam Weber and Brian Rea.  For more editorial work, visit my website, warddraw.com.

Recent book cover for Random House UK.

This image was commissioned for the Annual Report cover of the Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress, which is based in Ontario, Canada.

I'll be having an opening of new paintings at the Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY on Saturday, November 24th. I hope you can make it.

November 24-December 23, 2007
Opening Reception Saturday November 24th, 5-9pm

Silas Marder Gallery / 120 Snake Hollow Road / Bridgehampton, NY / 631.702.2306

Click here to see more images

I've just done a press catalog for Hermès, 24 pages of Illustrations and calligraphy.

See more of the images on my website at Style.

My contribution to the Green show....I like to paint big boxes with little doors.
 

This is my contribution to the Green show. " the Mad Pantheist " explores the theme of nature worship, and was inspired by the freaky moss in the woods close to our cottage.It's 24" x 36", acrylic on wood panel, and to date is the largest of my paintings. I loved painting to this format and can't wait to create more.

If you're in LA on Saturday, November 17th (7:30 opening), check out the GREEN Show at the Robert Berman Gallery, curated by Mr. Mark Murphy. Here's my piece. For more details on the exhibition, check out www.robertbermangallery.com or www.murphydesign.com There'll be live music by SSI and the Modlins, and several PM artists with work in the show.

Robert Berman Gallery
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Avenue / C2 / Santa Monica / CA / 90404

       This image for TJ Tucker at Texas Monthly addresses the border fence policy. Writer Karen Olsen askes "Could it be that the biggest problem along the U.S.-Mexico border isn't undocumented immigrants but washington politicians who want to build a fence?

This image was done for the New York Times Book Review. The book titled, RETURN TO DRAGON MOUNTAIN Memories of a Late Ming Man By Jonathan D. Spence, is about a 17th century Chinese historian who tries to decipher what caused the fall of the Ming dynasty.

Check out my interview at Illustration Friday.

I painted this illustration for Colin Tunstall at Los Angeles magazine. The article was a review of Alice Sebold's, "The Almost Moon."

In the story, Helen Knightly, a 49 year old art model, smothers and kills her mother. The mother, Clair Knightly, is suffering from senility and dementia. "Dementia,' says Helen, 'as it descends, has a way of revealing the core of the person affected by it. My mothers core was rotten like the brackish water at the bottom of a weeks old vase of flowers."

Helen speaks of her mothers undone chores, and tells how her mother would not leave the house unless she shrouded herself in blankets.

For this illustration, I decided to paint Helen as I imagined she might look while she murdered her mother. I wanted the first beat to be ambiguous; is she doing chores like making the bed, folding blankets, or is she killing someone? 

I hired an art model to pose for the photo shoot.  As it happens, the model had more than a little affinity for the story because her mother suffered from severe mental illness in real life.

I tried 3 different light sources; above, below, and straight on, finally choosing "above." I placed a football under the above-mentioned blanket at the models request, and she provided a very smart and appropriate costume.

I used a fairly straight-on angle of view because I wanted to access Helen's trapped face and hands. "Constrictive composition" provided some narrative tension by trapping the character in the composition with shadowy and architectural lines. Interior/exterior was used to create contrasting color and more constrictive lines, and I lovingly thought of Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" as I painted the shadows dancing across the curtains and walls of the "sagging house."  And finally, Francisco Goya's "Los Caprichos" was the inspiration for "trapping the lights" around the 2 focal points in the picture.

I painted this picture with FW acrylic inks, and Derwent watercolor pencils, on BFK Rives printmaking paper. The image was digitally scanned, tiled, and minimally rendered in Photoshop, then delivered as a digital file. 

This image was done for NYU Alumni magazine, the article titled "The Denial Justification", discusses why society puts the environmental time bomb on the back burner.

These are from the exhibit, "50 books / 50 covers" currently up at the AIGA gallery in NYC.  This year I had the luck and honor to have my recent picture book on Harcourt,  "Oh No, Not Ghosts" included in the show.  My wife Cynthia Wigginton designed the book as well, so it was a nice double honor for us.  Unfortunately, we were unable to make it to the opening, but fellow Picture Mechanic Edel Rodriguez was there and snapped these pictures.  Looks like an amazing show!

This was done for Penny Blatt at Forbes Life. The story was about P. J. O'Rourke's recent trip to China and how struck he was by the rampant capitalism and manufacturing.

This is a new painting that will be in a group show at PEP gallery in Brooklyn.  Opening is Friday Oct. 5th, 8-10pm, 64 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, 11205.  Others in the show include some current and past members of PM—Sam Weber, Calef Brown, Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson. Show runs through November 17th. Thanks to Jashar Awan for putting it together.

"La Gallina", Acrylic and Polymer Paint on Canvas, 30" x 40" 

I worked on two new large scale drawings (40" x 60") this summer. They are currently on view in a group show SUPER PHAT in New York. Opening reception is this week. Hope to see you there.
Visual Arts Gallery 601W 26th St. 15th floor, NYC 1001
reception: September 18 (Tuesday) 6:00-8:00PM

This is 1 of 4 posters I designed and illustrated for Heineken's 2007 holiday advertising campaign for the Hispanic national market running Thanksgiving to New Years 2008

Did this devil for Monte Beauchamp's BLAB! magazine show at Copro-Nason Gallery in Santa Monica. Show runs from September 8th - 29th.

"Krampus" 7" x 11" acrylic & oil on wood panel 

JC Penney is offering the "Flirtitude" back to school line of push-up bras, thongs and lingerie.

Target offers back to school lunch boxes "equipped with stereo speakers", while Sears offers pre-teen cosmetic kits.

"Not to be outdone, Victoria’s Secret back-to-school series includes something called an “All Night” backpack."

For Joe Darrow at the Chicago Tribune, in my O-Town style.

This image will appear in Phoenix Magazine, the article is about a long standing
class action law suit filed by the prisoners against the county's Sheriff for the jail's deplorable conditions.

the music compilation that was coated with gold and riveted on to the Voyager satellite  for the NYTimes OpEd page today ... AD's Sam Weber and Brian Rea

This image appeared in Runner's World magazine - definitely a great mag for illustration. The story was about running a series of half marathons when training for a full marathon. Seemed like a simple concept to work with, but it wasn't. Thanks to the patience of Art Director, Kieth Webb, we had to go a few rounds of sketches before I got an approval.

I did this piece for Edel at Time Magazine this past Spring, around tax time.  It's vague now in memory, but I think it had something to do with the US incarcerating accounting fraud.

This image is for the cover of The Washington Post Book World, highlighting a review of a book titled "Away" by Amy Bloom.  The book is about a Russian immigrant's struggles in New York City in the 1920's and her train voyage through Alaska to get back to her home country and see her daughter again.

For Conde Nast Traveler magazine. Article based on the pleasures of coach class travel.

This image was commissioned by AARP magazine, the story was about how
to get a good night's sleep while traveling. I found this article very interesting,
you'll have to pick up a copy to get the details. I'm just the picture guy.

New piece for BLAB! show in L.A. in honor of Monte Beauchamp's new book "Devilish Greetings"

A Portrait of Billy Corgan, for SPIN Magazine (Any resemblance to Lord Voldemort is purely coincidental). A sincere and humble thank you to everyone at Picture Mechanics for asking me to participate. I'm honored to be included.

richard, ward, adam, christian, edel, katherine, jeff, vivienne, greg, dan, tim, eddie, jody, mark and me

From "Halloween Night" by Charles Ghigna, Running Press.

For a story on war and genocide.  I'm such a downer.

Another dog picture! This was part of an illustration for Bark magazine.

My poor dog Alfred had a very bad stomach.  I had to fix him chicken-and-rice for years and years and years.  At first Alfred was quite happy with this, but after 5 or 6 years he became desperate for other things to eat.  We discovered he enjoyed (and could tolerate) grapes, tomatoes, and he especially loved watermelon. (For another drawing of Alfred visit warddraw.com.)
 

One for my daughters ninth birthday.

In reference to Katherine Streeter's entry (below) I've refused to be categorized: I'm sort of bi-pet-ual.  Every time I see a cute little pussy, I have to stroke it; and when a  good-looking dog comes around, I can't resist petting.  Recently I sent out a promo of this reading cat and am now working on a cover for a cat book, 25 spots for a dog book, 7-12 illustrations of dogs for Men's Health---it just doesn't stop.  And who would want it to?  As subjects, pets are much preferable to humans.  (Check out the animals section of my website.) 

I'm making paintings of cats lately, which is interesting because  I'm really

more of a dog person than a cat person.

Its been fun though!

This image was done for Business Week, for an article about a new search engine that focuses only on people. Specific information may include a person's occupation, interests, hobbies, age, marital status and hometown.

My Alma Mater, Parsons School of Design NYC, commissioned this poster for their admissions program, but the project was killed without ever running.

For the fall issue of 3x3, publisher Charles Hively asked me to create a calligraphic cover containing the names of the illustrators that 3x3 has featured to date––many of them Picture Mechanics: Founder Gary Taxali, Vivienne Flesher, Anita Kunz, Cathy Bleck, Mark Ulriksen, and Mark Burckhardt. This fall’s issue has Mark Murphy writing on Kristian Olson, Stefan G. Bucher writing on Lara Tomlin, and Jeffrey Decoster writing on me.  There's also an interview with illustration icon John Hersey.  If you haven’t yet subscribed, you’re missing out on an amazingly beautiful magazine dedicated to illustration.

This image ran in The New Yorker Magazine with a review of "Passing Strange", a musical at The Public Theater in NYC.  More of my past theater and music illustrations for The New Yorker can be seen here.

this is  tshirt design i made and entered into threadless.com's weekly tshirt design contest. 

please vote 

A personal piece done in my Boston Style.  Don't ask me what it means.

This image was chosen for the current Communication Arts Illustration Annual.  It was originally published in West magazine, illustrating a fiction story about a couple going through a separation.  The image was also chosen for the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration annuals.  More of my conceptual work can be seen here.

 For Harvard Magazine, a story on stock options, titled Insider Luck.

i have a feeling this is not going to get me a target ad

I created this piece for the summer issue of Standford Medicine magazine. The article discusses the factors that contribute to the increasing levels of breast cancer in women, and how some women are enveloping themselves in a false sense of "pink campaign" protection while continuing to make poor lifestyle choices. Dennis McLeod was the art director.

 I took a fresh look at a very popular california hamburger chain logo and made something useful ... happy fourth.

ps. the arrow now points to the left

Fast Company magazine. A little spot about business blogs.
This one was about the environment.

I recently completed this "portrait" of Mike Peters, leader of the Church of Indianapolis (CII), a religious group that has become increasingly cult-like in its behavior and secrecy. In fact, they're so elusive that there are virtually no photos of Peters to be found, and the neighborhood where he and other members live has signs posted warning strangers that they're unwelcome. The article is appropriately entitled "Warning Signs".

Art director: John Baxter; client: Indianapolis Monthly

Each year I do the advertising images for The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.  Much of the work is calligraphic, or what I call calligraphic: frequently that means cut paper, paint, and photography.  Below is one of this year's pieces, others can be found on our website, under 'calligraphy' or 'design.'

Another from the war series.

This ran in the New York Times Books Section.

Summer Reading.

A San Francisco Center for the Book, bookmark.

This image is in Sunday's NY Times Book Review, accompanying a review of Free Food for Millionaires, about the life of a 22 year old Korean woman living in NYC.  Nicholas Bleckman, AD

Recent work for Esquire based on the fast growing city of Shenzhen, China where laws have been relaxed for the sake of prosperity. Design Director David Curcurito.

For SooJin Buzelli at Global Custodian magazine.

I went to Shanghai for my husband Ward's show at Stir Art and I think I found the source for Gary Taxali's wonderful illustrations.   What do you think?

This was done for Gastronomica.

"Understanding Receptivity to Genetically Modified Foods"

For Paris-based Payot-Rivages I recently did three takes for a cover for a new novel by Valérie Gans: Charity Bizness.  It  appears to be an English title, but it's an Americanism used by the author to give it a certain appeal.  I appreciate jobs like this in which I can mix my illustration, my calligraphy, and design; it makes for a unified whole that seems (to me, anyway) entirely natural.

The one in the center won.

This is one of several pieces I have in the "2007 Big Show" at Silas Marder Gallery, currently running through the 29th of June. Below are some shots of the May 19th opening night.

To see more of my gallery images, click here.

I was honored to collaborate with Hambly and Woolley Design on this poster for the Canadian National Magazine Awards. It's the 30th anniversary and illustration is up front and center. Tomorrow night is the big event. I'm also nominated for an illustration I did for Canadian Business magazine. Fellow Picture Mechanic, Greg Mably is also nominated. Good Luck!

cardsharks (card-sharks.net) is a new card company that is featuring some of my animal characters done over the years.
It also features the works of Steven Guranaccia, Michael Bartalos, Felix Sockwell and Teresa Villegas 

Another from the war series...

 
     This image from Men's Health Magazine supports a story about oral hygiene.
Common problems like halitosis, bleeding gums, and cold sores, can be signs of more serious illnesses....

A sampler from a series of 10 X 12" drawings done on vintage scrapbook paper.

Aiming to produce a show of about 25.

To continue praise for Soojin...

I did this piece a while ago for Global Custodian magazine, it's a story about a joint venture. Her only direction was to not illustrate anything with stereotypical money symbols. It's a wonderful fluid experience to work with Soojin. I had just found this cool bird book from 1949 among my mother's things when she passed away.It's interesting that there are a few bird references here among the blog entries.

Hi, am I late for the SooJin party? 

An article about some financial something or other for which SooJin requested.....do whatever you want, have fun.  Plansponsor magazine, good place to work for.

Along the SooJin theme, a recent piece about 401K plans. SooJin sometimes asks me to approach her assignments as I might approach my personal work.

 New feature piece done for PlanSponsor magazine. Bless her heart, SooJin lets artists do basically what they want!

David Armario and Dennis McLoed asked me to do a series of images for the upcoming issue of Stanford Medicine Magazine, which focuses on the subject of war. Some more images from that series are here.

Strategy + Business magazine commissioned me for this story about Toyota's incredible product development system. This is one of two full page illustrations I did, the title is Innovation Agility. 

 Spot for Mother Jones Magazine, for a piece on the untimely deaths and general ill fortunes befalling various female superheroes. Susan Scandrett, AD.
 

a variant of this animated icon was made for brent croxton design in a series of icons for his website ... he's a great guy .... j

This was recently done for CREAM : Dear Alice Edition (Hong Kong). 

The chapter's were assigned to different artists. This image is one of two

pieces for "The Queen's Croquet- Ground"

This is one of two images done for the Oakland Zoo's "Walk on the Wild Side" event, made into limited edition posters, adverts and billboards.  The zoo puts on this event annually, inviting the public into the zoo to enjoy music and local gourmet cousine, all while hanging out with the animals in the recently redesigned facility.  This is the second year I've done this, it's always a great joy working with the amazing talent of Becca Reese and Alex Ashton of Zipfly.

This image was for a short story titled Emergency Nine for a book on golf related stories published by Golf Digest magazine. The story is about two buddies playing nine holes, one late afternoon. One of the guys plays the best nine holes of his life, he decides to keep playing through in darkness to finish the entire 18 holes. It was the game of a life time, shooting a 69.

Here are some shots from the opening of the Arena Stage Show @ The Society of Illustrators on May 24th, 2007. From the top: Charles Hively & Sarah Munt; Edel Rodriguez, David Flaherty, Ellen Weinstein & Olaf Hajek; Olaf Hajek, Jody Hewgill & Balvis Rubess; the party on the terrace continued to the wee hours. The show included works by Mike Benny, Marc Burckhardt, Olaf Hajek, Jody Hewgill, Gary Kelley, Wilson McLean, Balvis Rubess and Mark Ulriksen and continues until June 23rd. Check out the article in Playbill