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First cover of 2010 for The Week.

The 2nd one.

The latest cover for The Week. Came out Fri. Feb 12.

Latest for The Week Magazine. The challenge was to make a visually boring idea more cover worthy. I tried to channel Jack Davis a little and give each person a little more personality.

Another one from The Week. A similar challenge with the crowd. This is my version. The final had some changes. The fellow in the front is very loosely based on my brother-in-law. I didn’t have a picture in front of me, or for anyone except the statue. The curious thing is after I stopped and the dust cleared the faces in the crowd started looking like famous people I’ve seen. Which makes sense I guess. Johnny Damon, John Goodman, David Koechner, to name a few. The rest are a stretch.

Cover for The Week. This took longer than I thought it would. I’m not a fan of drawing and painting architecture. I wish I had a few more days, but most of the deadlines for The Week tend to be 2 days or less. And I still have to fit grocery shopping in there!

The Week. I like this one.

Cover for The Week. Peace Prize winner. um, yeah.

For Crain’s NY last week. Steve Wynn wants to buy Aquaduct race track in Queens, NY.

I moved to Manhattan from Brooklyn last month. Still feeling like I was fresh out of college and grossly underestimating how much crap I had accumulated, it was a colossal pain in the arse. My friends came by and really helped out. In less than a month, I went to California twice. Opening at Copro Nason Gallery in LA where I had a piece in a group show. fharper.com for the type of work I show in galleries. (warning: it’s not work safe!) Spent a week in New York finishing the packing and doing a deadline. Then to San Diego for the Comic Con. Came back to NYC and finished moving what I couldn’t fit the previous week! Plus more deadlines. Not every piece I did fits what I focus on, but here is a few…

Cover for The Week Mag. Obama tries to bail out the sinking healthcare reform.

See, not what I usually do, but fun and challenging any way! Cover for The Week Mag.

For Crains NY. Joseph Sitt Coney Island real-estate developer. My opinion is it will never be as good as it was. The Mermaid Day Parade rocked!

The late edition of the drips were added in photoshop. We didn’t hash that part out so clearly in the sketch. I imagined a puddle collecting at the bottom but was hung up with the initial explanation from the editors using a reference to when the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz had water thrown on her and she began to melt. The scene showing her feet shrivelling up under her skirt was stuck in my head. It took a little extra work around deadline time, but I think we got it pretty good.

Cover for The Week again. They changed the format of the cover beginning with this issue. Anthony, the main designer from London who works for Mr. Dennis (the guy who owns everything) came out to art direct this one. They really wanted to emphasise the crowd. My first sketch was more of a panoramic view to show thousands, but several revisions later, it was a little more intimate so you could see facial expressions on the people.

Cover for The Week.

For an online blog. I don’t remember the name off the top of my head.

I ask for patience while I figure out my Final Cut program for video. Just have zero time to figure it out! Here are some recent things I’ve been painting.

Kim Jong Il cover for The Week Magazine.

The government owns GM Obama as a used car salesman. Cover for The Week.

This is one of a bunch of quick studies in gouache on Bristol. Simple color, nothing fancy, just simple look and draw and paint. I’ll share some more later.

Been channeling R. Crumb this afternoon to come up with a nice portrait for a special client. Had a great day walking around the SoHo and West Village area in Manhattan. Ended up at my gym on 14th St. and then “Cup of Joe” coffee shop before getting on the “L” train back to Bushwick. I wish I could freeze everyone in place for a few hours sometime so I could draw everyone I see. There were some great faces riding back to Brooklyn with me today!