posted: December 9, 2009

Here's a portrait I did for the current issue of ai5000, Asset International's online business magazine for institutional investors.  "Sally Bridgeland, BP's Pension Queen" appears in the profile section.  Sally is the CEO of British Petroleum's pension trust, one of the largest in the world.

I've been doing some mixed media pieces at times, and thought this would be a good project to utilize some other elements besides paint.  This is mostly acrylic, but some other things as well, including digital.


SooJin Buzelli was AD, of course.

posted: November 19, 2009

This painting was created for the anniversary of a Mexican restaurant in LA.  Tito's Tacos is a casual local eatery that's been owned and operated by the same family for 50 years--it's a Culver City institution.  To mark their 50th, the family wanted to do something very special by commissioning an original painting and using it to promote the occasion in a variety of ways, including ads, posters, and a small run of prints that would be framed and given to special customers.

The challenge for me was creating a promotional image and making the same art work as a print.  The client admired an image I had done for a book cover.  As we discussed options and sketches, they decided on a romantic image of cooking in a traditional Mexican kitchen.  

The prints are a beautifully silkscreened limited edition, and an Anniversary event was held last month at a nearby historic hotel.  The client was wonderful to work with throughout the process and it was good to be part of the effort.

By request, here is a detail of the painting, which is done in acrylic on panel.

posted: July 11, 2007

A self-styled and noted American entrepreneur was the subject of this portrait for The Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition's front page story "Riding the Tiger" on Saturday.

Fredy Bush is the CEO of Xinhua Finance, Ltd. in Shanghai, the company she founded out of an alliance with the Xinhua News Agency, the Chinese Communist Party's primary media organ.  Originally a divorced mother from Utah, hers has been a success story of an enterprising American being in China at the right time. 

Recently however, Ms. Bush and her media company have been under fire over certain highly profitable transactions.  Even Ms. Bush's background seems askew at this point.  Despite that, the Journal wanted to stir away from controversy in the portrait, perhaps indicating her transition from Utah to Shanghai.

Some folks would like to see the portrait in context,  so within the limits of my scanner width, here's how it was used. 

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posted: May 24, 2007

Cellophane, a bawdy novel set mid-20th century in the Amazon, is a story where magic, science, and destiny collide. It's published this month by The Dial Press.  I loved reading the book, and the author, Marie Arana, is a Peruvian American who knows how to weave a dense and engaging comic tale.

Don Victor Sobrevilla, at the age of 12, was handed a mysterious fortune from a gypsy monkey, La Negrita.  As an engineer, Don Victor dreams of building a paper mill on the Amazon.  He moves his aristocratic family and all their eccentricities into the heart of the Peruvian jungle, where he proceeds to build his empire.  Beliefs, values and culture are auspiciously contrasted, but tongues, desire, and all hell break loose when Don Victor discovers the formula for that transparent wonder of the 1950's, cellophane.

The cover is printed as painted, with the original green and blue colors, but I'm choosing to show the cover for portfolio purposes in reds.

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