My portrait. It’s under the Jan. 25th entry.

Clayton Cubitt came to my studio to do a long portrait of my girl, Molly Crabapple, and asked if he could do mine. He called it stealing 5 minutes of your soul. Not feeling that I had one to steal, I told him to have at it. He sets up a shot and clicks start on the video button of his camera. My job was to hold still and stare at the camera for 5 minutes. This is me holding still. I apparently can’t do this simple task.

Sports Illustrated asked for a more challenging illustration this last week. Peyton Manning seems to have a good sense of humor and SI wanted to convey this in a quick way.

They asked to have him in Groucho Marx make-up. So I watched a couple of Marx Brother clips on You Tube and put Peyton in the slouch walk. We got a late start on Sun. so I didn’t have much time to figure out a better poses etc.

Cover for The Week Magazine. Painted in gouache and polished in photoshop. I just did a fun illo for Sports Illustrated I can post in a few days. Oh, for the google searches… Obama looks in to a crystal ball to see the image of FDR.

They didn’t want much exaggeration on this one. But notice the ball has no base.