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Tim O’Brien – “Tupac at 40″ for XXL Mag

Posted by sleepboy, August 11, 2011

How would Tupac look at 40? XXL magazine tries to answer this question with the 15-year anniversary of the rapper’s death coming up in September. Illustrator Tim O’Brien, whose death of Osama bin Laden cover for Time as well as sweet Charlie Brown painting we covered in the past, was tapped to paint his vision of the middle aged gangster rapper if he was still alive for the upcoming issue. As he explained in his blog, this version of Tupac is if the years treated [...]

Tim O’Brien – Osama bin Laden Time Magazine Cover

Posted by sleepboy, May 3, 2011

Some of you may remember Tim O’Brien from his popular take on Charlie Brown for the Monster? exhibition (covered) a while back. Unfortunately, the piece later ended up being the target of the notoriously zealous estate of Charles Schultz. We’ve been following his mostly illustrative work on his blog ever since that show and have enjoyed the background information and insight posted by the talented artist on various projects. Of particular interest though because of recent events is the TIME cover that he created for [...]