The New Yorker . . . in Print.

The New Yorker

I'm excited to share my first piece for The New Yorker! TIME, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker, were my top three that I dreamed of working for, or with, so I am stoked to say the least! I love sketching and drawing and for years I have wanted to do this type of work for publication. I always thought the style would be perfect for The New Yorker, so it's exciting for me that it came together the way that it did! I hope this will be the first of many for The New Yorker.

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Sean Rowe (Detail of a sketch)

Sharing close up of sketch . . . to me this is what it's all about. Capturing all I can with as little brush work as possible.

Sean Rowe sketch . . . 2

A few more minutes spent on Sean Rowe sketch . . . now I'm ready for some sleep. See you all tomorrow.

12 minute sketch of Sean Rowe.

Couldn't sleep so had to sketch a little . . .

Sean Penn

Afternoon sketch!

Quick sketch for SHARK WEEK!

Ron Perlman drawing for SALE!

Original Ron Perlman drawing for SALE! Originally drawn for my second book "SEILER 2008-2009". Please email me or send me a private message if interested.

Steven Charny for Rolling Stone!

This is the great "Steven Charny" head art director for Rolling Stone. Sadly, he's leaving Rolling Stone and off to new adventures elsewhere. I say sadly because he was such a great art director to work for. Rolling Stone was my dream job ever since I was 15 and thanks to Steven I've done 5 paintings for RS not including this one of Steven. While working on my last painting for RS, was was asked secretly if I would paint Steven as a gift for his going away party! I of course was seriously honored and got right on it. I was asked to paint him in the same way I would paint an artist for Rolling Stone's Music Reviews section. Another fun piece to work on.

Here's Steven posed with his three gifts. My painting, a mock parody cover with Janet Jackson and then an awesome parody cover by the Great Victor Juhasz!

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References I took of myself to help with pose and lighting . . .

Cyrano de Bergerac for Broadway!

A couple weeks ago I painted this poster for the Roundabout Theatre Company! As usual it was a very quick turn around, especially since they wanted something "Rembrandt-like", and lets face it, I'm no Rembrandt. :)

My original art . . .

The reference of the model or actor that I had to paint was limited and not very large so that added a bit to the challenge. I wanted to make sure that I had some good reference to help this piece a long so I went to a local costume shop here in Chicago and created my own reference and lighting . . . it was a lot of fun!

SOLD!

SOLD! Thank you so much for your support!

Johnny Cash Drawing for Sale.

Original pencil drawing of Johnny Cash for sale please send me a private message if interested. Originally drawn for my second book "SEILER 2008-2009".

Balance

Sketch I did today . . . helps to have a beautiful subject to draw from.

World of Warcraft

This is my latest painting done for World of Warcraft, a fire breathing Pygmy!

My first painting for W.O.W., a warrior Gnome.

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SI Newhouse for the NY Observer

Another two day turn around for The New York Observer . . . had me some fun with this one!!!

This was how I originally painted him . . . for the printed edition he needed a procedure. :)

The cover was on the morning news in New York, thank you to my Aunt Nedra for snapping a shot of it for me.

Rick Ross for Rolling Stone!

This is my 5th painting for Rolling Stone!!! I've said it before and I'll say it again, Rolling Stone is my favorite magazine to paint for. This was a one day job, started Thursday morning at 7:00 a.m. and finished by 6:00 p.m. that same day . . . it was crazy but it was also a blast!! I decided to save some of my steps while I painted. I hope you enjoy!