James O'Brien's Studio Blog » celebrity http://jamesobrien.us/blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:44:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 J is for Jackson http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2012/01/j-is-for-jackson/ http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2012/01/j-is-for-jackson/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:27:21 +0000 J. O'Brien http://jamesobrien.us/blog/?p=1631

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The 2012 Campaign is heating up, time for some more portraits. This is Michele Bachmann via a pop star, morphing through a movie star.

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This is an unrecognizable portrait. Search the lyric and you may figure out who it was meant to be. For now, he’s just plain Phil.

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]]> http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2011/03/phil/feed/ 0 Abbey Lincoln http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2011/01/abbey-lincoln/ http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2011/01/abbey-lincoln/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:47:51 +0000 J. O'Brien http://jamesobrien.us/blog/?p=1268 ]]>

Abbey Lincoln passed away last April; here’s her NYTimes obit and a clip of her on The Steve Allen Show. This is another play with gouache and ink, with some Mr. Ted drops.

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]]> http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2010/12/anthony-weiner/feed/ 0 Lawrence O’Donnell http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2010/12/lawrence-odonnell/ http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2010/12/lawrence-odonnell/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:02:10 +0000 J. O'Brien http://jamesobrien.us/blog/?p=1206 ]]>

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]]> http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2010/12/lawrence-odonnell/feed/ 0 Mel Gibson 5 http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2010/07/mel-gibson-5/ http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2010/07/mel-gibson-5/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:53:30 +0000 J. O'Brien http://jamesobrien.us/blog/?p=1057

Here is a version without the text. This donkey-ear concept was of course inspired by Pinocchio‘s trip to Pleasure Island with Lampwick.

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