There are many talented artists offering a wide variety of poker artwork. From originals to limited edition prints, there are poker paintings depicting scenes from old poker movies to abstract artwork featuring today’s poker celebrities.
Darci Faulkner’s art is widely collected and has been honored with many national awards. Her poker artwork is a testament to her talent and commitment to tackling new and challenging topics. While many artists adopt a style and stick to it, Darci is always looking for something new and challenging herself to learn. Darci’s poker art work which includes a series of celebrity poker paintings combines digital technology and her experience in traditional painting. Reflecting an influence from the genre developed by Andy Warhol and Peter Max, her style takes a whole new approach of combining the image of various celebrities to capture a specific moment in time. “I was looking for a way to do something with my artistic background and my knowledge of computer technology and I found it.” Not unlike her poker artwork, characteristic of Darci’s divergent styles, her sports paintings have been described as a marriage of the styles of Norman Rockwell and Leroy Neiman.
He is always exploring new techniques and avenues to create new images and works that combine his endless curiosity, savvy with technology, and love of color… lots and lots of colour!
Kathy Womack, the artist behind the celebrated Women and Wine series, is now adding poker artwork to her resume. Her proven success with the Women and Wine series made her the perfect candidate to capture the sport and excitement that is offered in the medium of the art of poker with poker’s recent rise in popularity. Kathy started out as a fashion illustrator for newspapers in the early 1990s. As she began the transition to computer generated imagery, the need for illustrators diminished. Seeking a more creative outlet, Kathy put down the newspaper, picked up her brushes, and began making a name for herself. Just five years later, at age 32, she opened the Kathy Womack Gallery in downtown Austin, Texas. Now, with the imminent opening of a Houston location and her sights set on Las Vegas in the near future, she is well on her way to becoming one of the most successful artists of her time.
LeRoy Neiman is probably the most popular sports artist in the world, followed only by younger artists Stephan Holland and Richard T. Slone. Neiman produces about six different screen prints a year, typically priced at $3,000 to $6,000 each. Annual gross sales of new screen prints exceed $10 million. In addition to being an internationally renowned sports artist, Neiman has created poker artwork inspired by his experience of traveling the world visiting the world’s largest casinos.
Neiman’s poker artwork and gaming paintings include: Baccarat, Baden-Baden, Black Break, Casino, Chemin de Fer, Desert Inn Baccarat, Gaming Table International Poker, International Roulette, Pool Room, Roulette, Roulette II, Salle Privee – Monte Carlo, Stud Poker, The Game, The Game of Life, The Green Table, Vegas Blackjack and Vegas Craps.
Neiman produced much of his early work for Playboy magazine, for which he still illustrates monthly.
