Mein Pop Art Bild von Donald Trump im Sovietischen Propaganda Stil ist bei STERN online.
One of my pop art paintings featuring Donald Trump in a bombastic soviet propaganda style is online at STERN magazine
Here is a photorealistic digital airbrush painting I made based on a picture of my younger daughter Ashley.
She is wearing her eccentic, international man of mystery grandfather’s white rockstar sunglasses.
© copyright illustration 2007 by Ian D. Marsden
I created most of the masks in Illustrator before I started painting in Photoshop.
While I was working on this piece, I thought back to the days when I would have had to cut each mask out of Friskfilm, wait for the layers to dry, and constantly wash out my airbrushes to make sure that the colors didn’t mix. I still have several of my old airbrushes in my studio, but they are purely ornamental at this point. I love Photoshop! Who would have thought back then that one day you could do the same job, without a mask, compressor, paint, brushes, mess, and ripping your hair out if you made a mistake or if your original got lost or damaged.
A selection of Ian D. Marsden cartoons and illustrations are now available as stock art at www.fotofinder.com - just type in the searchwords: Ian Marsden and you will have an ever growing selection to choose from. Of course as an illustrator it is always fun to be contacted directly and create a ’special’ custom made piece for the client, but sometimes it is also nice to have ready-made pieces available too.
These are some of the large Pop-Art canvases I created for the Historic Culver Hotel in Culver City, just across from Culver Studios and Sony Pictures.
Recently the whole downtown Culver City area has been enjoying a major renaissance and renewed interest, with the opening for example of Ford’s Filling Station (Wow! I had some great dinners there!) and the Kirk Douglas Theater.
My studio was located on the second floor of the hotel for over a year and I enjoyed my stay there very much, it was a highly creative time. While a tenant, I was invited by the owner of the hotel to help him with certain design aspects for the remodeling and redesign of the lobby, bar, ruby room club and restaurant areas. Thus I ended up designing the new version of the hotel logo
as well as the logo for ‘Duke’s Hideaway’ bar and the murals and ‘trompe l’oeil’ fake awning inside the lobby and around the bar which were painted and excecuted by the brilliant Ramiro Fauve and his team. (We even snuck our signatures in next to the lobby window by the stairwell).
The hotel is a magical (and haunted?) place. It was once owned by John Wayne, and the cast from The Wizard of Oz stayed there during filming. If you are in Los Angeles and in the neighborhood, if you are an aficionado of flatiron buildings, if you always wanted to sleep in a round bed with purple satin sheets (book the John Wayne Suite) or if you just need a drink and need it now - why don’t you swing by Duke’s, relax and view these pieces up close.
Photography by Ben Kufrin, Venice, CA
