Movember: Roberto Luongo of the Vancouver Canucks

It may be safe to say that Luongo is Vancouver's starting goalie this year and should be for the next few years. He is one of the most entertaining goalies in the league in not only his interviews but on his twitter account @strombone1 .  This month Luongo is sporting a special Movember mask, it is one of my favorite masks he has worn, and I think he should stick with it for a bit longer than 1 month. For those who don't know Movember occurs during the month of November, where men and women across the globe join together to raise awareness and funds for men’s health. Men grow and women support a Mo (moustache) for 30 days becoming walking, talking billboards. Movember supports world-class men’s health programs that combat prostate and testicular cancer.

Roberto Luongo

sizes

8x8 $20.00 USD 16x16 $40.00 USD

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: Vancouver Canucks vs San Jose Sharks

It was hard to predict this series to start, question marks abounded for both teams. First the Canucks have had a season long goalie controversy while both played pretty well through the season and the team had a solid season as a whole and winning their division and the 3rd playoff seed.

Now the sharks were one of the most surprising and hottest teams to start the season and cooled off, but rebounded to finish the season strong they also have some of the clutch playoff performers in my opinion in Antti Niemi and Joe Pavelski, and even Joe Thornton has been solid in recent playoff years despite his reputation.

So naturally the Sharks come in and take a 3-0 series lead heading into tonight's game 4 and no matter what the out come of tonight's game it seems that the sharks will take the series in large part to the above mentioned playoff performers for the sharks...oh and one of my favorite players (because he's a Buffalo fan) Logan Couture. The Canucks have let the goaltending controversy become a major distraction, the first 2 games Luongo was solid, the team just couldn't score, then they put in Cory Schneider and fell apart in game 3. Seems that the Canucks should've let their goaltending issue go and work on creating more offence that they needed to win the series.

So here are two more of my pieces I've been working on for the Playoffs the Vancouver Canucks Kevin Bieksa and the San Jose Sharks Joe Thornton.

Kevin Bieksa

Joe Thornton

2012 Playoffs Canucks Vs. Kings

Finally back, been busy working on tons of drawings for the playoffs...Just like in years past I try to have one artwork for each team in the playoffs and a post with both of them, as always reader submissions are a great help and give different perspectives. So here...we...go!

So far this series is quite a surprise how the Canucks can't seem to get any offense for one of the most touted offensively talented teams. Kesler has gone down a couple notches in my belt from watching this series, he has been of my most respected players in the NHL, granted I don't see many Canuck games games being on the east coast but the blatant dives he has preformed over the series, just losses respect, I know all teams have players that dive and embellish but there's a certain level where your just shaking your head and Kesler for me has reached that level (and beyond). The  biggest reason the Kings are up 3-0 is because of Quick, he is one of my favorite goaltenders in the NHL to watch play, he's very acrobatic and isn't one of the straight up strictly butterfly goalies. He is always playing down low, its just fun to watch a different style and I hope it continues to work for him. Another story in the series has been Luongo, while I thought he played well so far in the series besides a few dribblers around the pads (I believe if he had smaller or form fitting pads a lot of those kinds of goals on him would go away, they just look too big and clunky) he was replaced by Schneider in game 3 which couldn't produce a win or a goal. Hopefully Luongo will be back for game 4 and the series goes on. Here are two drawings of  the goaltenders for the teams Roberto Luongo and Jonathan Quick.

Roberto Luongo

Jonathan Quick

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.

Hockey in Art: Hockey art contest round 1

Two submissions so far for the 1st Hockey Art contest for the blog sponsored by The Fan Zoo and they are both good ones. I also would ask anyone submitting work to also let me know what medium you used to create the artwork, it will probably help the voters. Submissions are being taken until December 12th for a $50 gift Certificate to The Fan Zoo online store!

The 1st submission is from Shelly Bryant and is a Prisma coloured  pencil drawing of Alex Burrows.

The 2nd is from a contributor to the blog Leauphaun, a pencil drawing of Henrik Sedin...or is it Daniel?

So far both submissions are Vancouver related...submit your artwork to NFG801@AOL.COM by December 12th to be eligible for the voting!

Mini Goalie Mask: Vancouver Canucks

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 28, The Vancouver Canucks mini goalie mask. This is the final mask in the series, hey at the time there were 28 teams at the time...30 by the time i finished so the Islanders and Wild were left out. Now I'll be back to posting some submitted art work and revisiting some familiar artists with new work...the season has begun!

Stanley Cup Final: Vancouver Canucks vs. Boston Bruins

This as been an up and down series so far, I was liking the Canucks to start and looked good for the first two games now Boston has dominated the last two. Currently the series is tied at 2 and game 5 will be huge in determining the winner of the series I think. If Boston can win in Vancouver it will be a huge factor. So here are two pieces of Ryan Kesler of the Canucks and Zdeno Chara of the Bruins

NHL Playoffs round 2: Vancouver Canucks vs. Nashville Predators

Round 2 art is starting to be completed, so far this series has been a tight 2 games. The series is even right now at a game a piece. Here is Vancouver's Henrik Sedin and Nashville's Shea Weber.

2011 NHL Playoffs: Vancouver Canucks vs. Chicago Blackhawks

Now I'll move out west to the most interesting match up The Stanley Cup champs vs the Presidents trophy champs. So here's some artwork of Vancouver's Roberto Luongo and Chicago's Patrick Kane submitted by Matt

Kayleigh's Art

A young artist Kayleigh sent me a link to her blog with such great artwork, a good mix in detailed work as well a simplistic, there are a lot of hockey sketches mixed in there also take a look!
http://artismygift.blogspot.com/


Marc-Andre Fleury, Jordan Staal and Roberto Luongo

Canucks vs. Kings

Roberto LuongoJonathan Quick

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

Playoffs: Canucks vs. Blues

My pick in this series is Canucks in 5.

Roberto Luongo

Barret Jackman

Roberto Luongo

Here's a digital painting of the Vancouver Canucks.

Pen Series 1

Starting in 1998 I started to do a series of pen sketches for every team in the league adding a little piece here and there to create 1 big poster of sketches for that team when ever I thought or was inspired to do it.

well it's 2008 10 years later and I think I pretty much stopped in 2004 do to many concerns I had, some of the sketches I just didn't like at all and since it was in pen I could do NOTHING! If I would start it again I would do it all digitally but I wasn't as sophisticated when I was 17 back in 1998. So I will post some of my favorite sketches from this little project called "The Pen Series"
I'm so happy the Canucks beat the Thrashers today to help my Sabres out so I'll start with them...enjoy the series many more to come.