new promos

hey team,
I'm sending out new promos this week.
Getting the mailing list organized and properly addressed is a lot of work. Good thing I have intern Zach here to do all the peon jobs.These are the postcards:
Are you a high-powered art director and would like to receive one?
please e-mail me at contact@aekieren.com and I will send you one straight away.

another Gillian

heres another painting I did of Gillian for An Appointment in the Dreamworld

down the rabbit hole

Oy vey team
I know I have barely posted this month and for that I apologize. I have been spending more time in the restaurant than I would prefer, plus I just went home to Michigan last week for a wedding and some other shenanigans I will tell you about later. Though I swear to you that I have been working as diligently as possible, I haven't had much time for photographing, scanning, posting etc,
but anyway, here's something:thats the first of my images derived from that insignia I laboriously sculpted

more to come of course

you know you've made it when

your art appears in Korean Air's in-flight magazine, Morning Calm
credited or not!

some more chalkboards

hanging the Pulp show

Hey team
yesterday at Society of Illustrators we worked on hanging Pulp Art: The Robert Lesser Collection, to go on display later this week.
Let me tell you, it is quite a show.
It has cowboys, aliens, hardboiled detectives, and a lot of dishy 1940's babes about to meet horrible fates. A perfect snapshot of who we were in America in the 30s and 40s.
Here's a couple quick pics for you, obviously they do it no justice so you will have to go see it for yourself.

some pieces awaiting installation

cover illo from a pulp called The Pirate of Wall Street

some of the hardboiled stuff

this piece was one of my favorites. very unusual for a pulp cover. in spite of the dangling corpse it has a Van Gogh/Ukiyo-E flavor to it

I loved this one. Great paint quality, and observe, there is a tiny man being dissected.

poor lass. there is no telling what that nasty cowboy might do to her.

this piece was the cover for a 1941 pulp entitled (I shit you not) JAPS INVADE AMERICA!

some hand lettering

well folks, times is hard. as such, I have a gig waiting tables in a restaurant (befitting someone halfway through his third degree)

they let me do the chalkboard, and I'm really quite lucky to have a job that lets me spend sometimes as much as 45 minutes on the clock just playing around doodling fishes with chalk . . .

obviously, I'm no Elizabeth Baddeley, but hand lettering is rather fun, no?