For all images, click to enlarge The St. Louis Cardinals have had MLB’s best scorecard cover artwork since 2003, when an illustrator named Mike Right took over the gig. His …
Category: Sports-Themed Artwork
Paint by Numbers: Amazing Women’s Footy Scoreboard Art
Click to enlarge Got a note the other day from Australian reader James MacNeil, who wanted to let me know about a great new art project, called Keeping Score, by …
Long-Lost Gas Giveaway Provides Blast from Cubbies’ Past
For all images, click to enlarge Check out this illustration showing various Cubs players who won the National League MVP Award. A great composition, and so many great uniforms! That …
Pandemic Driveway Chalk Artistry
By Phil Hecken, with Matt Esterich Follow @PhilHecken Hey guys! Hope everyone is doing well and staying safe as we pass the mid-point of the month of September in the …
Beast Mode: Company Turns Pets Into NFL Players
For all images, click to enlarge If you want to pretend that your pet is a football player — and really, who doesn’t? — you have plenty of options. Unfortunately, …
Meet Tim Godden: Illustrator of Baseball Stars
By Phil Hecken Follow @PhilHecken Uni Watch readers know I will sometimes feature the art and artistry of folks with whom I interact via the Twitter, and today is another …
Talking Football with ‘Sports Mishmash’ Illustrator Alex Bennett
For all photos and illustrations, click to enlarge Earlier this year we Ticker-linked several times to British illustrator Alex Bennett and his various sports “mishmash” posters, each of which shows …
Painting & Drawing PyeongChang – Meet Andy Brown
By Phil Hecken Follow @PhilHecken A few weeks ago on the Twitter I crossed paths with the artist you’re about to meet today — Andy Brown — and I knew …
Meet David Resnik – Building Fields of Dreams
By Phil Hecken Follow @PhilHecken “If you build it…” I have a very special post today for you all. As you’re all probably aware, I spend a fair amount of …
The Art of Keeping Score — Literally
Matt Maldre appears to be an interesting cat. He lives in Chicago, where he engages in a variety of art projects. He also loves keeping a scorecard during a ballgame. …
Major Find: ‘The Professionals Look at Pro Football’
Click photos to enlarge Way back in the day, the NFL used to put out all sorts of cool promotional publications, many of them with beautiful illustrations. I was lucky …
The Columbus Blue Jackets and the Art of the Poster
For all posters, click to enlarge I mentioned in yesterday’s Ticker that I loved the gameday posters that the Blue Jackets have been putting out. The one shown above is …
Painting Uniforms on Uniforms
Reader Douglas Ford recently alerted me to the work of an artist named Dan Stromme, who has an interesting specialty: He paints sports scenes on helmets and jerseys. Let’s start …
A Great Way To Say ‘Thank You’
Click to Enlarge By Phil Hecken As many of you readers are aware, Leo Strawn, Jr. often sends in ticker contributions for some obscure sports (usually, but not always, Australian …
He Shoots, He Score(board)s!
Click to enlarge Nowadays every stadium has a high-def color jumbotron. Back in the 1970s and ’80s, though, most ballparks had conventional one-color scoreboards that displayed dot-matrix images. An artist …