In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, I thought I would do a small seasonal piece to celebrate the fact that every year, the United States President grants a pardon to a turkey on Thanksgiving day.

This image is almost 100% digital. The only part that was hand drawn was the line art for the turkey itself. I drew the turkey in ink, scanned it, colored it and created the entire background in Photoshop. The final version of this image is poster-sized so there is a lot of detail that you don’t see in this small version of it (I actually placed 50 stars on the flag!). The detail was truly painstaking and this piece took me probably 5 hours total to complete due to the complexity of recreating the White House.

These will be sold as postcards next year, so stay tuned.