Published today, for the LA Times Book Review, working with the super nice Carol again, I got to work on a nice color piece. It was a lot of fun doing this assignment. Basically talking about Literature as entertainment. I thought the main essay was really well written. One thing thats great about most illustration assignments is that with each job there's something new, a new angle, review, story, etc...


Also another piece in the New Yorker which is out on stands right now. It was about the horse exhibit going on at the Natural History Museum... Working with Max again, good times.



On another note, I was also honored to find out that one of my letters pieces that i had done, was selected to be displayed at the "The Illustrated Letter" show that was held at the New York Times building, in New York. What was displayed at the show were selected letters section pieces, that were published in the NYT in the past 4 decades . I didn't know that one of my letters pieces was seleceted, till my friends Josh Cochran and Frank Stockton, text messaged me about having one of my previous letters illustrations in it. Josh was also nice enough to display his phone photography skills for me (nice guy that Josh). It's nice to see these small, daily published pieces, getting a second light of appreciation. When I did this one I was working with Brian Rea.

New piece for the New York Times Book Review which was published today... Working with Nicholas Blechman, which is always really great. Gouache, chalks, and digital, for this one.

The book is basically about a guy who looks to saving ex girl friends daughter (which is actually really his daughter) as a mean for redemption for the sins of his past.

There are some pretty cool projects on the horizon, so looking forward to those.

Also on another note i was happy to be informed, that i'll have 2 pieces in the American Illustration 27 annual, which will be out next year.

Heres a full page illustration i did for The Deal. Working again with Larry Gendron. It's nice working with Larry as he's really open to the sketches that push the norm. This was a really fun job for me and i think the final came out sort of wild.

Something i did for Canadian Business. The story was about how there is going to be a switch in accounting standards in 2011. How some are not taking it as seriously as they should. Procrastination, not a good thing... It was great working with Tim Davin, and John Montgomery on this one.

It was an honor to work with Nicholas Blechman at the NY times book review to do a piece on the book "The Age of Shiva". Strangest thing about the book was the almost incestuous love the main character has for her child, in replacement for her absent husband. It was really great working with Nicholas on this as there was a lot of freedom involved with coming up with the visuals, and also to be illustrating something for the New York times book review.




Here is another book review.. also involving a child, but this one was for the LA times book review... The book is entitled "His Illegal Self", and it was about a child growing not having mother or father figure in his life, but to fill the void with less then ideal people. Working again with Carol on this project.

Hope everythings well with everyone.. I hope everyone that got a print from Tiny Showcase is pleased with their prints.

Today the cool great people over at Tiny Showcase are running my bird kite print... It should be a great place for someone to get it since the silkscreen original version was sold out, also some of the proceeds go to Greenpeace... so its good for everyone.

The piece above was for Globe Investor in Canada. The article was about how stock in pet related products have sky rocketed as of late.... So true as i don't remember dogs wearing designer clothes while i was growing up.

The art director was Jas Riyait.

Here is a piece that was published for the sunday edition of the LA Times Book Review last weekend... It was a for a book entitled "How the Dead Dream". About a man set out to get all the money he can in life, but strangely finds a passion for animals, esp. the endangered... So he sets out risking life and his profession to visit these animals, by breaking into zoos and getting as close to these animals as possible. A little excerpt from the book review.

"As the novel winds toward its conclusion, T 's limits become apparent. He screws up a vital friendship, insults a key business partner, watches a loved one slip away and is unable even to protect his dog. Checking in on his latest development-in-progress, a resort of the coast of Brazil, he decides to visit an animal preserve- the only way to get there is a Conradian trip up a jungle river. Through it all he ponders, in one way or another, the ends of things. Extinction. Death."

The art director on the piece was Carol Kaufman, who was great working with. It was also really cool to get published in the book review with my friend Nathan Huang, who just revised his website. Awesome.

On another note.. LA has been really cold lately.