"Haig" -the great Walter Hagen

Here is a recent drawing I created of one of my favorite all time golfing greats, Walter Hagen. It was made using a wax crayon (pencil) on paper, scanned into Photoshop, and then layered on top of textures of color I had also created with gouache painted on paper and also scanned into Photoshop. It's a simple shaped vignette that adds to the character of the image.

Walter Hagen -by Steven Salerno

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Montpelier Elks Golf Club, Vt ...sketch of the 3rd hole, circa 1917

As a kid growing up in Vermont, during my high school years my family had a membership at the Montpelier Elks Golf Club, a short nine-hole course with a handful of the holes either playing extremely uphill, downhill, or sidehill... and add in very small greens and high rough always made it fun and challenging. (My 85 year old father and my older brother still play their golf there.) The course was first open for play in 1902, and will be open for play again in 2016, but is in financial woes and unfortunately it seems its days are numbered, with the best bet for the future going to developers buying the land and building homes...

This painting posted here is a rough study I created depicting the uphill par 5, third hole as if it were circa 1917. 

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"The Caddy" -ink and gouache drawing

This is an illustration I created (cropped view) of a veteran caddy looping for one of the amateur members. (you can tell from the players somewhat awkward looking stance at address that the caddy rarely treks down the middle of the fairways... I the drawing was created with ink and gouache with added digital color and effects. 

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Ben Zen -quick gesture drawing of Ben Hogan

-a quick gestural drawing of Ben Hogan done in ink, then digitally layered atop an image of his scorecard from the 100th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club.

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Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays and best wishes in the new year! Best wishes  to everyone for 2013!

The highlight of my golf season this year (as usual) was playing in a weekend best-ball tournament with my 82 year old father as my partner, and watching him chip in for a birdie on the 18th hole par 4 hole, giving us a score of 69 (best-ball) for that day.

The highlight of my art career for 2012? A couple projects come to mind: I completed a handful of golf art images for Ernie Els' golf course design company, Els Design. I created golfscape paintings of several signature golf holes around the world that Ernie Els designed, and these art images were then used in magazine ads representing Els Design. Visit sasgolf.com to see these signature hole art images created for Ernie Els.

Also, earlier in 2012 my most recent illustrated children's picture book, Brothers At Bat (written by Audrey Vernick, and is the true story about 12 brothers who made baseball history), was released by Clarion Books, and in December the picture book was included in the New York Times Book Review list of Notable Picture Books for 2012... quite an accomplishment considering there were only 8 books on the list! Visit stevensalerno.com to view samples from Brothers At Bat by clicking on the "featured book" section.

-Steven Anthony Salerno