Anthony Bourdain

Recent commissioned portrait of Anthony Bourdain. Went for a bit of a weathered treasure map look for the illustration to reference Bourdain's explorer spirit when it came to searching out culture and food. I would catch his shows every now and then and will always be glad I caught the episode on Lisbon, which introduced me to Fado. It's a genre of music I've really grown to love and was even lucky enough to catch some when traveling through Lisbon. Anyways, I've never drawn Bourdain so I'm glad I got the chance to immortalize him in my own way and also revisit his work for research. Scroll on down for some process pics.

Missing my Food Spots

Here's a little group of food paintings I worked on back in April/May when I was going through some major withdrawal thinking about all the places I liked to eat/drink at before the pandemic shut them down. I'm glad that some places are able to start to reopen but I'm gonna need some time I think before I can comfortably revisit my old spots. At least the corner stores/bodegas/delis don't seem to have a shortage of ice cream sandwiches.