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JASON SEILER: PAINT IT BLEAK

October 6, 2011

Jason Seiler’s cover portrait of millionaire art world media mogul Louise Blouin for the New York Observer this week presented yet another new artistic challenge.

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“I was commissioned to do the ‘New York Observer guy’ (their logo) in a gallery, looking at paintings of Louise Blouin,” explains Jason. “I was asked to do a ‘Mona Lisa-type’ painting, which is basically just a painting done in my typical style, plus Warhol and Picasso-like paintings . . . three paintings within a painting!”

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