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 subjects. While many artists adopt a style and stick with 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 expertise 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, knowledge of technology and love of colour… 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 art medium of poker with the recent rise in popularity of poker. Kathy started out as a newspaper fashion illustrator in the early 1990s. As she began the transition to CGI, the need for illustrators lessened. Seeking a more creative outlet, Kathy put down the newspaper, picked up her paintbrushes, and began to make 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 on her way to becoming one of the most successful entertainers 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, usually priced from $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 works of poker art inspired by his experience of traveling the world visiting the world’s largest casinos.
Neiman’s poker artworks 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 on a monthly basis.