Description: We are artists who love the POTUS! A gallery of portraits of President Obama.
Randy began freelancing as an illustrator in the mid-1980s, quickly establishing a strong reputation for highly detailed representational drawing and painting. Although adept at working in color, he gravitated toward and has always preferred a simple black and white palette. He is a master of the graphic technique known as stipple — the process of marking a surface with numerous small dots to create an image. It’s a style favored by print media, where paper quality can adversely affect the reproduction of a
Perhaps best known commercially as a portrait artist, Randy has an exceptional aptitude for capturing his subject’s character and essence with carefully nuanced precision. This, combined with his stippling expertise, made him a perfect match for the Wall Street Journal’s iconic portraits known as “hedcuts”; he’s created several hundred of them since 1998.
Born in Leeds in 1956, a stones throw from Armley Prison. Educated a tunnels dig away at Castleton Primary School. Caught and re-sentenced to five years hard labour at Gotts Park Secondary School. Here he was beaten, de-bagged and beaten again mostly by the teachers. Cast in the factory fodder mode he escaped with the help of Mr. Guy the perfect art teacher who smuggled him into Jacob Kramer Art College. Life began.