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Agency Spotlight: Début Art
Agency Spotlight: Début Art © Yuko Kondo, Sam Falconer, Marcin Wolski, Justin Metz Début artists for the environment The Directory of Illustration is proud to highlight the work of four artists from Début Art who recently created powerful works to address climate change and promote environmental awareness: Sam Falconer, Marcin Wolksi, Yuko Kondo, & Justin Metz Début Art is an international agency with offices in London, New York, and Tokyo, representing established and up-and-coming illustrators, motion and animation artists, and digital designers. With their global roster of 168 highly selected artists, Début Art holds [...]
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Yankee Stadium Drought Is Over
On a recent rainy Tuesday night, I went to a Yankee game with tickets my non-baseball-fan boss had won in a raffle. The seats were not under an overhang, so [...]
Launching First Mini Auction on Facebook
Check it out. My first art auction on Facebook. You can choose from nineteen giclées of paintings of Europe. These pieces are terrific for those nooks and crannies that need [...]
Soccer Kids Final
Hi everybody,The kids are finished! Yay! I am extremely proud of this piece and of how it developed. The background is my favorite part of the piece. It seamlessly combines [...]
I’m celebrating Cinco De Mayo
I'm celebrating Cinco De Mayo for many good reasons.Cinco De Mayo, May 5, 1862 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and a traitor Mexican army. It's a complicated story. But Americans [...]
Color!
Hi everyone,I'm switching gears to a children's soccer piece that I concepted a few months ago. After deliberating between the two designs, I decided upon the simpler composition of the [...]
Andrew Baker #10424: National Poetry Competition
http://www.debutart.com/artist/andrew-baker/work/national-poetry-competition
Erika is going to be in Communication Arts!
Warren Buffet has been accepted into the Communication Arts Illustration Annual, due out this May! Yay, Go Warren!Now I’m juggling five pieces -- the coffee shop debate and soccer pieces, [...]
What’s Happening?
Website update:Check out my updated website. I've added new paintings and some old ones that I didn't have a category in which to place them. Now you can see 98% [...]
Surfin’ Safari
While it's been pretty cold here and it's effected some valuable tourism, we've been stoked in that it's has meant killer waves! Here are some pix from recent surf trips:
Award winning animation: “Chicken Named Mac”
Here's one of the animations that won the Global Health Care award...(see previous "Big NEWS!...I won a Global Award" post for cool details on the project!)Here's the Animatic:And here's the [...]
3 Lil’ Eaglettes movie
Here's the 3 Lil' Eaglette's movie:
3 Lil’ Eaglettes
Now here's a great project by all counts. I was approached a while back by some super cool folks who have been trying to bring a GREAT idea to life, [...]
A bit o’ design
Here's a full re-brand for Jarred Bunch consulting...including logo + website, along with biz card, letterhead, + one sheet collateral. I'd call the design style "corporate cool." Ha ha.
Snowboard trip!
A much needed vacation to Steamboat Spring, CO was a blessing in the beginning of 2010. Loads of snowfall and -25 degree weather was something I'm not used to, but [...]
HSN 3D viz work
Pretty excited to dive back into 3D full force with monthly viz renderings for Viking Production/Ingenious products for client HSN with some high end product visualizations.I'm having a blast working [...]
Foboko.com
What would happen if William Shakespeare were trying to get "Romeo & Juliet" published in the modern world?Well, here's some fun hand drawn (not Flash) work for client Foboko.com, a [...]
National Liberty Museum
Check out this fun work for an interactive exhibit for the National Liberty Museum (in Philidelphia) for client Allied Pixel. Thanks to Devin Vail for his trust in my vision...and [...]
Introducing my Endangered Species Collection
This is the first three paintings in daunting list of endangered species throughout the world. I hope to capture a substantial amount of these endangered animals, fish, birds, etc. on [...]
New European Paintings
I've just completed some new landscape paintings, a nice departure from my 'celebrity' series. I went digging through some old photos from my European travels and found some images of [...]
New Work: Dolly and Elvis
Just completed two new commissioned oils: Dolly Parton and Elvis Presley. I'm very pleased with both pieces. Each piece is on a gallery-wrapped canvas, 18" x 24". They are part [...]