Obama's Balancing Act

Trying to govern from the center isn't exactly easy.

Obama's Aim

Obama is catching in from all sides with his handling of the conflict in Libya. What's his objectives? What will be the cost? Will Gadhafi be removed? Yikes!

Here's today's Illustration showing Obama's somewhat unclear aim.

All We Are Saying...

One can only cross ones fingers as Israeli and Palestinian leaders sit down once again for peace talks. The fact that they are sitting down at all is a not so tiny victory.

This Illustration can be interpreted in a couple of different ways I suppose. The flags blowing in opposite directions is pretty obvious. The U.S flag in the middle can bee seen a couple different ways. The fact that it is blowing in neither direction can be seen as representing the Americans as impartial mediators. It can also been seen as showing the Obama administration as ineffectual in this instance- as not having the political clout to pull off any real progress.

I remain optimistic that some progress can be made despite efforts by extremists to derail the process. We can only cross our collective fingers and hope.

Obama's Inbox

Here's another Illustration I did for Obama's crusade to reform Wall Street.

The idea is pretty straight forward with the famous "Wall St." street sign sticking out of the President's inbox. The composition with its vertical layout is kind of unusual.

Cheers,
Paul

Obama: Wall Street Referee

With the US economy showing some signs of recovery, President Obama tries to keep his current winning streak alive by putting Wall Street firmly in his cross-hairs.

Looking at preventing another economic Chernobyl- he plans to introduce financial regulations that will hopefully prevent future taxpayer bailouts of folk whose business practices are modeled after the cast of MTV's Jackass.

As the president is looking at introducing new rules and regulations so that the boys and girls on Wall Street will play nicely, I have depicted the president as a sports referee.

This first image shows the artwork's transformation from a simple line drawing into a grayscale version, then finally a full colour Illustration.

Most of my Illustrations are drawn using a Steadtler pigment liner pen. I then scan the line -drawing into the computer and add the colour in Photoshop CS3. We are living in the digital age after all.

Final version of today's Illustration

If you have any comments regarding the topic or artwork I'd love to hear from you. Unless you're mean or overly critical in which case "love" might be overstating it. If you are prone to rant in a nut-like fashion, try to be entertaining as opposed to scary please.

Back to the ol' drawing board.

Cheers'
Paul