Lemay celebrates Belfour on his Dallas mask

Adrien Lemay had the brilliant idea to celebrate his idol, the goalie legend Ed Belfour, on his mask. I loved the idea and presented this design for Adrien that he liked. On one side I created a layout with Belfour in different guises, as portrait and "in action", weaved together with his classic eagle. All created with airbrush mixed with old school oil paint tech in sepia tones and gold.

The other side is dominated by the club logo, in which I also weaved in a watching eagle eye as a symbol for Belfour. The rest of the design I tied together with Dallas aesthetics, and the whole gives an old school design with lots of details.

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Orca action on Weiman's mask

Tyler Weiman of the Vancouver Canucks wanted a design in same spirit as the previous one I did for him, with a cool surfing cartoon Yeti... I came up with this idea with a mix of Canucks and Moose. On the sides a Moose design with the big mighty logo, and in the middle a cool Orca in cartoon style breaking through the ice in full speed. These motifs are framed by an old school design breathing Vancouver Canucks. Tyler liked the design idea, so I finished it with extremely much details and 3-D effects.

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Hit by a cartoony snowball...

It was much fun to create this action-filled Winter Classic mask for Semyon Varlamov of the Washington Capitals. Varlamov has been hit by a cartoony looking snowball, right in the face, the cartoony snow goes all over the mask with cool 3-D effects... A perfect Winter Classic theme, that also is perfectly visible from a long distance.

Around this I weaved a design with elements from the Winter Classic game jersey with lots of details and effects. Check it out in the mask gallery here on the site or on Facebook. But where you always find the masks first is in the App for iPhone and Android!

Monster design for Gustavsson in silver tones

Jonas Gustavsson of the Toronto Maple Leafs, aka the Monster, continues with his monster leaf theme from his previous Toronto and Team Sweden masks, a mix of his nickname and a Toronto leaf... These successful designs are always great fun to paint!

I came up with the idea with the monster leaf last summer and Jonas digged the idea right away. Here we have created a more hardcore variant, with silver base and a more violent touch on the details. A design that breathes Toronto to a 100%.

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Neuvirth's Winter Classic mask

It was very exciting to create Michal Neuvirth's Winter Classic 2011 mask. Michal and I discussed some different ideas, and out came a design that goes in the same spirit as his latest Caps mask. But here we have gone with a white base all over the mask resembling snow and ice, and on this base motifs appear in light blue snow tints. On the sides the ice is broken and the Winter Classic logo appears in a cool way behind the ice and snow.. A perfect theme for a Winter Classic mask.

The rest of the design is stylish with design elements from the Winter Classic game jersey. And just like on his previous mask we have made one American side, with the powerful American eagle and other details as the Capitol, and one Czech side with the castle from Michal's hometown in the Czech Republic and mountain motif.

Welcome to check out Michal Neuvirth's Washington Capitals Winter Classic mask in the mask gallery or on Facebook, or in the App for iPhone and Android.

Lawson's different Islanders design

Nathan Lawson had a quite clear picture of how he wanted his new Islanders mask. He wanted a tractor with an old barn behind, and his dog, and also a nice yacht cruising on the waves describing New York in summer time. A very different and fun painting assignment I thought before I got started to paint this mask that really breathes New York Islanders to a 100%, and in the same time is completely unique for Nathan.

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Al Capone inspired Turco's new mask

It was really exciting to create Marty Turco's design for Chicago's third jersey. When I created Marty's first two Chicago masks with gargoyles as Indians, another perfect idea for a Chicago theme popped up...a maffia and Al Capone theme, of course still with the gargoyles... Marty loved the idea as much as I so I started to rock with the design.

I created one gargoyle on each side, with cigars and white hats, just like Capone... And of course also a big scar all over the face like Capone, or Scarface as he also is called... One of them is holding a tomy gun, and the other a bloody baseball bat... If you have seen the awesome film The Untouchables with Robert De Niro as Al Capone, you know what Capone could do with a baseball bat...

Marty and I both loves much details, in the background you find a Chicago skyline from the 30s...and Capone's car ready for a flying start...and the gun holes on the sides of the mask are natural on a mask like this...

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