My art featured on Tikkun

My art was featured on Tikkun an interfaith magazine about faith and culture intersecting.  It was really cool being interviewed by Julie Lim and then to be featured was an honor.  Hope you enjoy the piece it has some of my art from 5 years ago.

http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/art-gallery/nolan-lee/

http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2012/12/20/murder-mysteries-of-the-civil-rights-era-still-burning/

My art featured on Juxtapoz online and Trendhunter

I just found out about this although it was featured a long time ago hahaha better ate than never.  My art was featured on Juxtapoz online, and then there was an article written up about my newspaper burnings on Trendhunter.  You can read both articles below.

http://www.juxtapoz.com/Illustration/nolan-lee

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/nolan-lee

Lebron James painting

Just finished this Lebron painting, prints will be available soon, email me if you want one.

Mural concept

I was asked to develop a mural concept for a possible mural in Boulder CO.  Here is the sketch I did for it.

Sketch

Here is a sketch I did from a National geographic picture to study foreshortening

sketch sunday

Sketch Saturday

A study sketch from a National Geographic picture

Sketch Friday

sketch

Heres yet another study sketch, I'm really trying to get better on my foundational work so I'm sketching more.

Sketch Thursday

Sketch of Liam Neeson from the cover of Les Miserables that I did as a quick study sketch.

another sketch for your Wednesday

Another study sketch

Studies from sketchbook

I'm working through a new technique of drawing faces hoping to improve on my craft so I'm going to post some from my sketchbook, by the way I'm not pro Newt I'm just working from magazine references:)

Cowboy

I did this sketch for a painting series proposal for a camp in Texas for kids with developmental disabilities.  The camp has a strong western and equestrian influence so I thought the cowboy theme could be a fun portrait series.

Pao Conference NFL

I haven't posted in a long time so I'm gonna post a bunch of catch up stuff from a long time ago. This is from the NFL PAO conference 2011. It was an awesome opportunity and really fun to paint for and meet a bunch of awesome guys. The paintings were done on 4ftx8ft canvases and were painted to match themes that the speakers talked about throughout the conference. The second picture shows all the canvases together which was 16ftx8ft.

sketches for painting ideas in pencil

Here are some sketches of different painting ideas I've been working through. I usually like to just show off my finished work but I'm trying to post more of the preliminary aspects of my work. I just thought these would be fun to show.

sketches studies in watercolor

This is another part of my sketches I've been doing based on the same persons face in different emotions. These were some of my favorite in terms of showing anger, my friend J did a great job modeling for this painting. This one was done in watercolor and isn't finished but I got to the point I wanted to and learned a lot about portraying the same face from different angles.

sketch studies in oil

I've been working on study sketches working in different mediums based on the same person's head from different angles in different emotions. These sketches are created for a future finished painting which will show one person going through a visual transformation of worship. the idea is to show that true worship is coming where we are in our joy an in our suffering. I think a lot of Christian art shows an idealized form of worship in only happiness, which leaves out suffering and anger which are just as important parts of worshipping and communicating to God. The painting idea is to show one person in all different emotions which will show that we are all over the place when we come to God but that God is constant throughout. These are studies based on pictures of one of my freinds named blake, they aren't finished which is kinda the purpose of a study to do it as a warm up. Anyway enjoy!

PAO Conference

One of my most favorite jobs I do is painting for a conference. I will be hired to paint for the duration of a conference on large canvas panels (4ft x 8ft) and I will paint a visual story that mirrors the theme and messages of the conference. I like it because I'm a perfectionist and it forces me to express myself honestly and not be able to correct all the flaws but to just focus on the message. I recently had the honor of painting at a PAO Conference in Orlando, Fl. The conference was based around giving up the things that get in the way of God and the redemption that only God can give in our lives and marriages. You can see the storyline of the suffering that comes from brokenness and self-reliance and then the freedom of Christ breaking the chains of sin in handing your life over to God. You can scroll through the pictures of the paintings and lastly there is a video of me explaining my art at the end of the conference.

Brothers

I just finished this piece I created for a family celebrating the unity of brotherhood based on Psalm 133.

an article I did for Comment Magazine

http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/2138/

Comment did a piece on one of my newspaper burnings series "Strange Fruit" enjoy!