Oklahoma

I developed this art for the musical Oklahoma with Nicky Lindeman last March. It was for the Arena Stage in Washington, DC advertising this fall's production of Oklahoma. The assignment was with SpotCo in New York. t was interesting for me because, Nicky Lindeman, the art director chose my more traditional/older approach of working. That is my older work using a more traditional painting approach in oils. My first assignments when starting out in my career were all oils(oils with an alkyd based drier) on strathmore. It's not very often these days I illustrate entirely in oils. Most assignments for me are digital based, or with brush work scanned in for development. Nicky asked for a regionalist flavour, and a lot of area for type. The emphasis for the art was the land, and a somewhat grittier tone from the traditional Oklahoma imagery. The Arena Stage production of Oklahoma opens October 22nd, through to December 26th in DC.

James Bentley Fine Art

If you are in Quebec; James has a show at College Dawson in Westmount until October 8.

Boardwalk Empire

Fabulous art by Robert Rodriguez
as seen in Grand Central Station NYC

Brian Zick's New Political Animation

http://lindgrensmith.com/clips_for_motion/zick/1/ani12.php

Magzine cover

I do the cover of this women's magazine every month. Usually I use it as an opportunity to really push myself and do a piece that I am really happy with, not just something that THEY are happy with.  But every once in a while inspiration is challenging enough for me to dig through older work to recycle. I can't remember what I did this piece for -it makes me happy to update a piece once in a while.

Concert Poster

I've been working on my design skills a lot. Have a few great designers that are willing to critique my work in process - such a huge help. This is a poster for a show my daughter is doing. The best part is that she loves it... and she is a tough customer. I used a combination of high contrast photo and drawing.