Assessing Bloomberg
Client: City Hall Magazine Art Director: Mitchell Hoffman
City Hall Magazine contacted me to illustrate the cover of New York City Mayor Micheal Bloomberg. The article is titled, “An Assessment of Bloomberg’s Third Term So Far, Measuring Up.” It is always an honor to be asked to paint a cover for a client—City Hall is no exception. (This assignment was the beginning of a flurry of work a few days before I took a week off for summer vacation! Murphy’s Law or Karma?)
City Hall Cover
Left Leaning?
Client: City Hall Magazine, Art Director: Mitchell Hoffman
Mitchell Hoffman of City Hall Magazine recently asked me to illustrate an article about a progressive caucus and their efforts to pull City Hall in New York more to the left. I moved out of New York state way back in 1992 but these spots for Manhattan Media keep me fairly well-informed about New York politics. Ironic, isn’t it?
Vito Lopez—The Lion in Winter
Client: City Hall Magazine Art Director: Mitchell Hoffman
I was contacted by Mitch Hoffman at Manhattan Media to illustrate the cover of City Hall Magazine recently. The story was a personality profile of Vito Lopez, a politician from New York.
Money Starved Republicans
Here is a political spot I was assigned to illustrate for The Capitol Magazine.
Republican Panhandlers
If you are inclined to read the article that my illustration accompanied just click here.
Byron Brown’s Pigeon Coup
The capitol requested I illustrate a fairly straightforward spot of Buffalo New York’s Mayor Byron Brown releasing a pigeon. The metaphor being that of Steve Pigeon—an aide to billionaire Tom Golisano, who helped engineer a June 8 coup in Albany, being a liability to Byron Brown’s political ambitions.
Art Direction: Mitchell Hoffman for Manhattan Media
Four years after removing Steve Pigeon from his Senate staff, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has again moved to put distance between himself and Pigeon. (For those interested, this is what Steve Pigeon actually looks like. My favorite part of the picture is “that guy” in the background!)
Obama’s trip to Nevada
Art Director: Ryan Olbrysh for Las Vegas Weekly
Apparently, President Obama declined a meeting with the Governor of Nevada (Jim Gibbons) during his trip to Las Vegas on May 26th. In response, the Las Vegas Weekly contacted me to illustrate this “snub” by contrasting his cozy relationship with Senator Harry Reid to his indifference to the seemingly powerless Governor.
Andrew Cuomo
This illustration is for an article in the April 2009 issue of The Capitol titled, “Those who would succeed Andrew Cuomo begin to emerge.” Besides learning about the New York Attorney General and some New York State politics, I also learned that the “shoe thingy” is called a Brannock shoe measuring device.
When Cuomo ran for the office it was to succeed Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer was very effective and there was an ad floating around at the time of Cuomo’s run that showed him holding the shoe measuring device with a tag saying something like, “These are some big shoes to fill.”
Sketch of Christine Quinn
Unapproved sketch of Christine Quinn
Here is the first attempt at the Christine Quinn sketch.
She has the wrong expression—looks too arrogant, she needed to be content and not worried.
Christine Quinn
Art Director: Mitchell Hoffman at Manhattan Media
“New York Council speaker Christine Quinn is up for re-election with very little competition aside from two female candidates. Quinn is sitting in a large chair and the the two women … trying to cut the chair down but not having much success.”
Bloomberg’s Boost
Art Direction: Mitchell Hoffman at Manhattan Media
For a spot in City Hall magazine, this illustration depicts New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Ind.) with New York State Senator Martin Golden (R-Brooklyn.)
The headline reads, “In Boosting Bloomberg Among GOP, a Golden Opportunity for Political Payback, Helping an ’09 mayoral run could pave way for ’10 Congressional run.”
“State Senator Marty Golden is helping Michael Bloomberg get the Republican line this year, perhaps with an eye toward getting Bloomberg’s help to run against Rep. Michael McMahon next year.”
The Internet Presidency?
- Art Director: Gina Tomko at Digital Directions
This illustration assignment came coutesy of Gina Tomko at Digital Directions magazine.
At the time of this illustration, there was a lot of confusion about Obama’s blackberry and whether or not he would be able to keep it after assuming the presidency. I was finished with the assignment and almost had to start over and eliminate the offending technology!
…yes, that is my powerbook, and no those aren’t my hands—they are one of my students at the Art Institute.
Here is a tearsheet:
- Education Week Tearsheet
Why Las Vegas won’t host a political convention anytime soon
- Art Director: Benjamen Purvis for the Las Vegas weekly
(Duh)
Las Vegas personalities
- Art Director: Beth Schwarz for Luxury Las Vegas Magazine
Luxury Las Vegas profiled four Las Vegas personalities and had me illustrate each one’s portrait.
Pictured are Governor Kenny Guinn, President of UNLV Carol Harter, Sheriff Bill Young, and Richard “Dick” Morgan dean of UNLV’s Boyd School of Law.