NHL Eastern Conference finals: Montreal Canadiens vs. New York Rangers Mad Men Style art

Well my bracket was ruined for the 2nd round, I had the Bruins and Penguins for the Eastern finals. The Rangers currently have a 2-0 series lead on the Canadiens and it's not looking much better for them with Carey Price going down in game 1 and subsequently out for the rest of the series. Price is no doubt a huge part of this Canadiens team and changes this series significantly in favor for the Rangers in quality of goaltending. Unless the Rangers just try to coast for the rest of the series it looks like they will be moving onto the cup finals.

I recently got into Mad Men, I started last season and I recently caught up with the series via Netflix. With the mid series finalie this week I was inspired to create Mad Men like graphics for the four conference final teams. I'll be posting the Western Teams tomorrow.

Here are the Montral Canadiens and New york Rangers in Mad Men Style art.

2014 Playoffs Montreal Canadiens vs Tampa Bay Lightning

This series was a though one to pick a winner, I was going to take Tampa Bay but thought about Bishop being out and he was a big part of their team this year and ended up going with Montreal in 6.  Right now looks like it was a good pick as the Canadiens are up 3 games to 0 and game 4 tonight it doesn't look good for Tampa Bay.

Here is a digital drawing I did of the Tampa Bay Lightnings Steven Stamkos and a pencil sketch of Montreal Canadiens Carey Price.

Steven Stamkos

Carey Price

Carey Price

I've gotten a lot of positive feed back on these types of illustrations I've been producing recently, that really ramped up and you can go back and see in last years payoff match ups. the #1 request I got was Carey Price (a lot of Montreal fans out there). My initial thought to produce these and have them look uniform was to do a few for each team, featuring different jerseys. I have a list I'm working on a list of ones to do yet, so if your a fan of these send me a request and I may push it to the top of my list.

Carey Price

Hockey's Masked Men from Michael Slotwinski

If you haven't already checked out Michael Slotwinski's site please do so here. He has several new paintings of goalies since my last post featuring his work. Also be sure to read his blog on the site, he has a interesting post about his paintings being on display during the NHL Alumni Dinner just before the start of the new NHL season. I've posted some of my favorite new paintings below, as someone who loves to do goalie artwork I know it can be hard to express a feeling out of the work, Michael is able to capture that exceptionally in his paintings, even when you cant even see the eyes or face, the perspective of the paintings set a nice tone. He is also a great person to follow on twitter, he will frequently post pictures during the painting process @slots_art

Roberto Luongo

Carey Price

Andy Moog

2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs: Montreal Canadiens vs Ottawa Senators

This series has been the most entertaining playoff match up off the ice in my opinion, I might also argue the most entertaining on ice as well, just not in the meaning of good hockey games. I'm watching the Penguins & Islanders series when these teams play but I look forward to seeing the highlights and occasionally checking into the game during breaks. Senators coach Paul MacLean is now one of my favorite coaches after this series the way he talks about the Canadiens players by using number rather than names"Player 61"is just tremendous and the subsequent outrage by the Canadiens equally so, that's why the playoffs are so fun.

The actual play of the series hasn't been as entertaining from what I can tell, as Ottawa holds a 3-1 series lead heading into game 5 tonight. You could argue the Canadiens were heading into the playoffs at the wrong time, what with gave just a solid and surprising season after finishing at the bottom of the standing last year. This year they hit a rough patch a few weeks before playoffs started and Carey Price hasn't been playing well and now is injured and out for game 5, they were hoping they could turn it around to start the playoffs hasn't really worked out for them.  It has worked for the Senators however, who suffered some big injuries during the season and then getting a huge boost by getting star defenseman Erik Karlsson back right before the playoffs. Factoring the teams situations heading into the playoffs it's not really a surprise the Seanators have the lead and look to move onto round 2.

For this match up, Hockey Artist and Canadiens fan Wade submitted another one of his digital paintings of Montreal Canadiens Alex Galchenyuk you can follow him on his twitter handle @DarthAlexander9. The other is my artwork of Ottawa's goaltender Craig Anderson.

Alex Galchenyuk

Craig Anderson

Montreal Canadiens by Wade

The Montreal Canadiens finally signed their star hold out PK Subban yesterday to a 2 year deal to add to their good start to the season at 4-1 and now most likely to get better.  So here are some excellent digital artworks Wade sent in of PK and some other Habs players, Price, Cole and all time great Jean Béliveau you can also follow Wade on twitter @DarthAlexander9

Thanks for sending the amazing artwork Wade!

PK Subban

Carey Price

Erik Cole

Jean Béliveau

The Art of Robert Hollaman

It's been a frustrating couple of weeks now with the lockout, I've been doing a number of things and focusing more of remembering some of the great players I watched growing up. So until the lock-out is over I think I'll be posting some "old-time" NHL related artwork other than current. Just in time Robert Hollaman linked me to his website which quite nicely fits into this theme for now. He also has artwork of other sports but a lot of really nice hockey related paintings, you can visit his website HERE

SportsNic's part 2

Kevin sent in more of his SportsNics collection these are from his 09 collection featuring the Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Montreal Canadiens and the New Jersey Devils. There are more of these to come from each team from Kevin and for as many as he has and the simplistic design of the characters to the fine detail in the logos/equipment each one is a different pose.

Hockey in Art Contest sponsored by The Fan Zoo

Here are all 4 entries for the Hockey in Art Contest, Hurry up and vote in the poll to the right. Winner receives a $50 gift certificate for The Fan Zoo!

Contestant 1.  Shelly Bryant, a Prisma coloured  pencil drawing of Alex Burrows.

Contestant 2.  Leauphaun, a pencil drawing of Henrik Sedin

Contestant 3. Scott from foogos, Sidney Crosby, Black: prunes (surprisingly delicious)  Gold: squash (Surprisingly horrific…do  not give this to your babies) White/cream: bananas with apples and pears (unsurprisingly enjoyable)

Contestant 4. Nick, Marker illustration of Carey Price, and touched up  in Photoshop.

Voting goes to December 15th, winner will be announced on the 16th.

Goalie's Mask: red, white & Dryden

Well tonight sucked for me, I have no feel for my Sabres team right now after a loss to the Islanders 2-1. The looked good at times but just couldn't hit the net all night, especially when it counted. They do have a lot of Injuries so I hope they will come together when the bulk of the team is back. I'm getting back into things here now, I've started painting some and idea shopping more goalie masks, I should have some up soon as well as more great work from Jim Link.

Anyway this piece was brought to my attention from Robert who is a friend of the artist whos other work can be seen here The artist Brandy Saturley has a few paintings related to hockey at her website, and this is by far the coolest and the one I would have displayed. Her gallery celebrates Canadian themes, and what better illustrates those than hockey, coldness and of course Tim Hortons, her paintings just make you feel Canada.

 

Mini Goalie Mask: Montreal Canadiens

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 23, The Montreal Canadiens mini goalie mask

2011 NHL Playoffs: Boston Bruins vs. Montreal Canadiens

Here's another Great series and a great game to watch last night. Bruins winning game 5 in double OT. So to finish off the 1st round of playoff match ups artwork here is Boston's Tim Thomas and Montreal's P.K. Subban

 

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Heritage Classic: Brian Gionta

For the Heritage Classic coming up today here is Montreal Canadiens Forward and captain Brian Gionta.

Brian Gionta

more artwork from Jason

Jason also sent this piece in, although I'm not able to tell who the players are involved, speaks the the physical part of the game.

Capitals vs. Canadiens

Working hard on these, hope to have them all up but the end of the 2nd round/start of 3rd round. then I'll be doing something for the captains of the final 4 teams...Canadiens win 4-3 in games

Jaroslav Halak

Semyon Varlamov

Gary McLaughlin

Gary McLaughlin submitted these paintings he's done, check out his site at http://www.riversonggallery.ca/index.html really some excellent work on there. Thanks!

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

More Digital works by Rob O'Neil

Rob O'Neil submitted 3 more digital works of French Canadian goalies, Ken Dryden, Patrick Roy and Martin Brodeur.

I love these kinds of art work, incredible!

Thanks! Hope for more

Playoffs: Bruins vs. Canadiens

I picked Bruins in 6, but it's looking like they're having a much easier time than I thought.

Zdeno Chara

Saku Koivu

Playoff Art Round 2 - Canadiens vs. Flyers

Danny Briere and Alex Kovalev