Greg Clarke, Kathy Osborn and Tatsuro Kiuchi had some great covers on four recent issues of Poetry Magazine. Greg's illustrations in November and February were "The Poet Takes a Walk" and "The Codependents." Kathy's illustration from the June issue was "The Good Egg," and Tatsuro's...
Miguel Gallardo is in the midst of illustrating about 30 new paperback covers for Faber and Faber. In 2009, Faber released the first two books in the series, Haydn and Handel. Wagner and Britten will be published in 2010. Miguel is currently working on the illustration for the Pocket Guide to...
Dennis recently completed a multiple-pose portrait of Jim Rohn for Success Magazine. Dennis really captured his vitality and made it look as if he drew him from real life. Dennis says, "When beginning the painting stage I paint very loosely in a transparent wash and early on introduce broad spontaneous brush strokes, some of which I lose in the course of the painting. My constant goal is to keep...
Recently, 44 artists from around the world created a New Bayeux Tapestry depicting events from each week in 2009. Ilene Winn-Lederer illustrated 3 weeks in April for the tapestry, and Joe Morse illustrated the week with July 4. The original Bayeux Tapestry was stitched together by unknown French women and showed current events from 1066. The new version is about 70 feet long, and is on exhibit at...
We welcome our newest artist, Netalie Ron-Raz, to our agency. Netalie studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and lives in Tel Aviv. You can see more of her work in her...
Claudia Pearson is now selling Valentine's Day prints as a fundraiser to benefit Yele Haiti's Earthquake Fund. Claudia will donate 25% of the sales to the fund. Please visit her blog below for more info or visit etsy.com to purchase the 9 x 12 prints...
Our artist Miguel Gallardo has been very busy lately illustrating book covers for Planeta DeAgostini publishers in Spain. Planeta is re-issuing a series of books of the best writers of the 20th century under its Destino imprint. Miguel is working on five titles for the series. The last one is a novel by...
We congratulate Greg Clarke and Tatsuro Kiuchi for winning silver medals in the SOI Illustrators 52 contest, as well as our artists Hanoch Piven and Paul Rogers, who also had winning entries. The exhibition will run from January to March of 2010 at the Society headquarters. Greg's winning artwork is a sequential piece called "The Neurotic Art Collector." Greg says, "This was created for the new edition of BLAB, Monte Beauchamp's venerable series of graphic...