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Finding Joaquín Murieta: Mark Smith Illustrates California’s Rarest Literary Legend
Finding Joaquín Murieta: Mark Smith Illustrates California’s Rarest Literary Legend The Hunt for Murieta: Mark Smith’s Illustrations for Alta Journal The California Gold Rush was a time of rapid fortunes and lawlessness, but some of its greatest treasures were forged in print. In a striking new visual feature for Alta Journal, illustrator Mark Smith (represented by Salzman International) brings one of the West's most enduring literary mysteries back to life. Smith’s artwork explores the Zamorano 80—the definitive list of California’s foundational books—with a focus on its most elusive title: The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta. [...]
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Kezar Life Science Biotech Images
Company Name: Kezar Life Sciences Industry: Biotech Use: Corporate graphics for pitch decks, website, and social media Client Lead – Mike Wolfe VP Finance and Business Operations and John Fowler [...]
Synthetic Cells to Cure Eye Disease
Biotech Graphics: Illustrating Synthetic Cells Client: Cell Care Therapeutics Industry: Biotech CEO: Nicolas Sohl For: Pitch Decks, Corporate website, Social Media Goal and Challenges Potential and promise. Most biotech start-ups [...]
Animated Explainer Video for Biotech Rain Oncology
Case Study: 3d Science Animation of the Cancer Therapy Milademetan Our teaser animation for the Rain Oncology animated explainer video. Jump to see the fully narrated animation at the end [...]
The Opioid Crisis Graphic
Interactive Art: Understanding Opioid Addiction’s Effect on the Body Client: Science News Magazine Industry: Magazine Publisher (science editorial) Design Director: Erin Otwell Art: Scratchboard (chalkboard) style illustration, animation, and interactive graphic [...]
Life on Mars Illustration
Back to Case Studies Mars Life Magazine Science Illustration Company Name: Sky & Telescope Industry: Magazine Publisher Art director: Terri Dube Subject: Life on Mars, Science Illustration Sky and Telescope Issue [...]
Ocean Ecology Science Illustration
The Future of Our Oceans Science Illustration Picture our oceans in 30 years. What do you see? The year 2050 isn’t that far off, and it’s critically important that we [...]
Blue & White Invitational At The Holland Museum
Oceanic Tendrils9x12scratchboard/clayboard and watercolorI will have a piece in the Blue & White Invitational at the Holland Museum. The exhibit starts this Friday and runs through October. You can get [...]
GILL BIRD LIVES UP TO HER NAMEThis…
GILL BIRD LIVES UP TO HER NAMEThis time of year the garden is alive with activity and this beautiful wildlife book is created with the delicate watercolour touch that Gill [...]
Spring University: Part 2
Our seasonal roundup continues with a range of bold artwork for the University magazine Spring 2026 editions! Matt Hollings — Engineering at Maryland — Future Forecast Taylor Callery — FIU [...]
A Tracery Of Loss
Here is the second illustration that I did for Mary Stebbins Taitt's book of poetry titled When Time Stumbled. It's a simple image for some strong imagery. 9x9 ink on bristol boardHere [...]
Spring Newsletter: Worlds Within Art
Our latest news and projects will take you on a journey — to a fantasy world, a nature escape, or a different time in history. Subscribe on LinkedIn Welcome, Cristina [...]
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Protected: Masterclass Series: How a Single DI Page Landed a $150K Campaign with David Goldman (Part 2)
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Latest NEWS and WORKS!
In this issue: Alice Cao, Andrea Espier, Clémence Pollet, Danijel Žeželj, Danlin Zhang, Jay Vollmar, Jorge González, Martin French, Michael Waraksa and Oleg Buyevsky!
Community Paint Day – June, 7, 2026
I am so happy to invite everyone to paint this upcoming Sunday, June 7, 2026. We will be starting a huge mural of almost 900 ft to bring some color [...]
New Mural at Harborview Terrace
Harborview Terrace 3 at 530 West 55th Street, New York, NY Last week we had the honor of returning to Harborview Terrace and to paint another wall, this time at the recently [...]
Robots, Aliens, Heroes, and Villains…
And a lizard, too. My latest Substack is up and is all about some watercolor pop culture images that I did some time ago and forgot about. You can click HERE [...]
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The Ideal Life
Exploring the Great Bear Rainforest: A Children’s Book
My latest picture book, Enough to Share, is a lyrical introduction to the delicate ecosystem that is the Great Bear Rainforest. Written by Mary Helen Berg and published by Tielmour [...]
Belleville Drink N Draw May 2026
This past Wednesday was the May edition of the Belleville Drink N Draw at Egan's Pub. I worked on a few ideas for some cartoons, a fantasy job and sketched [...]
INTRODUCING ED JIMENEZ TO OUR…
INTRODUCING ED JIMENEZ TO OUR ROSTERMore thrilling news as we announce top Costa Rican illustrator Ed Jimenez signs to Lemonade and brings his vibrant, whimsical style full of funny little [...]