I was commissioned by one of my clients to paint a window for a contest put on by the jazz festival. I got four other businesses to participate, and put together a mural commemorating the evolution of jazz. The piece works from dixieland to big band, then bebop on to present day. The piece includes portraits of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, and the Shuffle Demons respectively.
These are some paintings I designed in order to add some fun & visibility for John’s big sale. I’ve included the original sketches from which I worked in this post. The theme was, of course, moving piles of books.
I worked one on one with this client in order to produce an artwork for his home that accurately represented him and where he was in their life. The finished pieces are studies of the same tree with shared focal points which can then be rearranged to be a different piece every time.
Before the 2008 election Harper had a photoshoot with a small kitten as a publicity gesture. Harper had a very strained smile, and the kitten appeared terribly uncomfortable. This inspired the first of my political cartoons in a long time, with many more to follow.