Throw back Thursday: Wayne Gretzky by Ryan Grigg

I was sent a link to Ryan Grigg's website which boasts a few hockey portraits. For throw back Thursday I'll be showing off his mixed media painting of Wayne Gretzky. You can check out his other works of Art for sale and not at his website: http://www.ryangrigg.com/

Wayne Gretzky

The Great One by Matt Jurasewicz

And the lock out rolls on, and so does hockey art posts featuring past NHL players, another look back at those that made us love the game and inspired to create art work surrounding it to capture our love for hockey. Matt is a regular contributor to the blog with his art work, here is his painting of The Great One, Wayne Gretzky.

Wayne Gretzky

SportNic's

Kevin Lynch sent in a series of what he terms as SportNic's, it is a series of stylized goalie artwork for each NHL team that he drew by hand. I love the style and look of them and the team logos on the goalie pads as well as incorporated through out the equipment is a great touch although I don't believe they are all represented to be Chris Mason (See Jets pads). Kevin sent in several different samples of his SportsNic's from different teams, I'll post more at a later date, as Kevin says he is working on several more and a new series as far as how he came up with the style: "It's a character that comes out of years and years of sketching and playing Goalie." As well as creating these goalie ones for several different years he also has a VintageNic(59-80) Series, and a few smaller 'Nic Series, like Olympic,NCAA, and MN High School 'Nics. Thanks for sharing Kevin

Mini Goalie Mask: Edmonton Oilers

I remember collecting those mini goalie mask key chains but didn't care for just the team logo printed on the top so I got inspired to paint a design based on the team logo on each mask. no these are from years ago (early 2000's I think) so some logos will be outdated but i think some of them are pretty cool. Here's number 21, The Edmonton Oilers mini goalie mask

Nikolai Khabibulin

Here is a digital piece of Edmonton Oilers Nikolai Khabibulin

Nikolai Khabibulin

Artwork from Chris

Chris sent in some of his artwork, These look really awesome, thanks for sending them Chris! Check out his photobucket page at
http://s840.photobucket.com/albums/zz326/CanadianHockey/Jersey%20Concepts/Hockey%20Illustrations/

Ales Hemsky

Paul Stastny

Martin Brodeur

Matt Jurasewicz Part 2

Now that I'm not as focused on getting comic style artwork done for the playoffs, I'll get back to posting the artwork you sent me, I do have a lot. Starting with more work Matt Jurasewicz sent in. Thanks everyone!

Patrick Roy

Wayne Gretzky

Cherry Hill Design

Sorry for the delay in posts, I have a little collection of artwork submitted as well as more of my own I'll try to spread out a little.

First off some great pictures of work from a company called Cherry Hill Design, owner Michael Gossack submitted these amazing photos of customized rooms. check out their website for more.

http://www.cherryhilldesign.ca

Dwayne Roloson

Pencil Sketch of Edmonton Oliers goalie Dwayne Roloson.

Artist David Levinthal

I went to the Hockey exhibitit at the local Albright-Knox Art gallery a few weeks ago and this photographers work was displayed through a long hallway entering the exhibit. I thought it was interesting and never thought just photographing figures could make them feel so alive. The photographer is David Levinthal his website is http://www.davidlevinthal.com/index.html