S. Preston Blog

Hockey-heavy was the theme of this February. If Preston wasn’t creating hockey art, he was travelling the country talking hockey art (and watching a little bit too). He kicked off the month at the 2023 NHL All-Star Beach Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His exclusive sketch for 2023 featured a...

Download your 2023 Minimalist Kansas City championship wallpaper here.  Illustrated by S. Preston and available for a limited time only! (hold your finger on the image or link to download the image to your phone) 1125x2436 (newer phones)        720x1280 (older phones)    See all my artwork for the Chiefs here.

Happy New Year! It has been an eventful 2023 for S. Preston Art + Designs right off the bat. After ending a very prosperous 2022, Preston and his team hit the ground running at the NHL Winter Classic in Boston. Preston created several exclusive designs for this event -- including specially...

Download your 2022 Minimalist World Series wallpaper here.(hold your finger on the image or link to download the image to your phone) 1125x2436 (newer phones) 720x1280 (older phones) See all my artwork for the Astros here.

*This story was originally posted and shared on NBC Sports Bay Area 

  What is the Masterwork Collection? The Looney Tunes: Masterworks Collection is a multimedia project that combines original sketch artwork and digital reproduction to create multiple original artwork versions from a master illustration.  S. Preston will create a master illustration (Masterworks Original) of a character without including the jersey portion...

  Sign in and enter to win S. Preston will pick one winner.  Contest ends August 10, 2020.  One winner only.  No purchase necessary. Ballpark Princess Original Water Bottle Giveaway

  Back in 2014, (when we had these things called movie theatres), I designed a series of minimalist spaceships for an Entertainment Weekly story.  Out of the ten I designed, by far the most popular of them all was the Minimalist Millennium Falcon from Star Wars.  Fast forward 6 years, I am...

In this CoronaVirus pandemic, a lot of you have been enjoying the coloring sheets I've been creating of all my Ballpark Princess art.  Please feel free to download these printable files for you and your kids to enjoy.  Stay safe! SCARLETT WITCH (WANDA) T-SHIRT CANNON GIRL  BASEBALL ARIEL  BASEBALL SNOW...

Artwork has a way of inserting itself into pop culture, mainstream media, and especially sports. While there's an abundance of offerings in the world of art, it's the pieces in which we truly connect with that not only bring the work, but also the artist to life. There's been few...

The confusion already!

Everyone keeps asking me for the size they received on MLB.com and at FanFest.  How do I get the 11x17 print?  Well it's about time that I uploaded them all to my website and to celebrate, all the labor it took to get them uploaded, I wanted to finally make them for sale to you!

 

Win all thirty of the current minimalist MLB ballparks! Just fill use the links below to make entries into the contest!
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So I'm back from Cincinnati and I'm tired!  This was my second FanFest with the MLB and I forgot what a surreal experience it is!  Cincinnati is a baseball town, and there were fans everywhere!  Before I recap some of the nuttiness, I have to thank everyone that came to my booth to see my artwork. Regardless if you bought art, or just came to see the display, I'm thankful that you took the time to see me.  I'll never stop being grateful to you!

It's the traditional baseball scene - a father playing catch with his son.  I'm not a father, but even I've imagined it.

So how does a father share the sport they love so much with a daughter that he loves more than anything?  For fathers that are baseball fans, it's significantly more difficult to bond when you have a little girl.

The Houston Astros have a new Minimalist design for their ballpark!  It's of course the Minute Maid Train that crawls along the tracks above the left field wall.  Rather then googling pictures of the train, I decided to let Nelson Cruz use his bat to show you where the train is!

May people often asked me to describe my art, but I am not a man of words, so I always struggle to express myself verbally or in written form.  It's not surprising.  I'm an artist!  It's much easier for me to illustrate and draw my feelings then express them with words.  So in my constant endeavor to connect art with sports, I've asked several of my fans to express their passion for baseball and will illustrate their love for the game... hence the name.

 

The next set of minimalist ballpark watches is due to launch and we need your help choosing which designs to release!  Vote now and choose which ballpark will be produce in the next release batch.  Choose one or all of them, but we will only pick four.  

I don't often get a chance to see how people react to my artwork.  I get lots of tweets and emails that they love my art, but I rarely get to see it first hand.  So earlier this week, Dani msged me on Instagram and asked me to create a ballpark princess piece of Princess Dodgers Tiana for her co-worker Bree as a birthday present.  As you know, I do not do commissions, but this request was too good to pass up!

Field of Dreams is one of the greatest baseball movies, period.  A friend once told me that everything in life can be explained in baseball and this move encapsulates that ideal.  Couple years ago, my father passed away.  I wasn't an artist back then, and I never drew or sketch a thing since I was a teenager.  So, I can safely say he has never seen any artwork I've ever created.