Art: Satirical illustrator Daniel Adel also paints incredibly detailed portraits! Look!

Date
28 May 2014

Daniel Adel is best known for his satirical illustration, as championed by the likes of The New Yorker and The New York Times; abnormally large-headed politicians sipping beverages next to scantily-clad babes, caricatures of famous faces with overgrown ears and noses. Over on his website, though, these cheeky images are more than matched by incredibly serious and very impressive portraiture which looks like it would be just as at home on the walls of an American president’s mahogany-lined office as it would over your grandmother’s fireplace.

We don’t get to put this kind of work, formal, traditional and brilliantly executed painted portraits, up on the site as much as we’d like to, so we’re taking full advantage of Daniel Adel’s talent as an excuse to do so.

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Daniel Adel: Doris Gutierrez

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Daniel Adel: Henry Goode

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Daniel Adel: Rushton

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Daniel Adel: Caleb Penniman Sr.

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Daniel Adel: Megan

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Daniel Adel: Penniman

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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