https://www.mikefacey.com/services daily 0.75 2026-06-26 https://www.mikefacey.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-06-26 https://www.mikefacey.com/home daily 1.0 2026-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a19ed80b9eae977f6d65f6f/639e913b-55e7-42f5-969b-1290cf99da2b/John+Lee+Hooker_23.jpeg Home A painting of a person wearing a hat playing a guitar, with visible brushstrokes and an abstract background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a19ed80b9eae977f6d65f6f/787f8883-d7ba-4162-81de-f1f3f3d9263c/reverend+leon+h+sullivan+2.jpg Home Reverend Leon H. Sullivan, Undated Mixed media — acrylic and oil · 18 × 24 inches · Created for the Allstate Black History Month Calendar Commissioned for Allstate's Black History Month calendar, this portrait honors one of the twentieth century's most consequential yet undersung figures — a Baptist minister from Philadelphia who became a global force for civil rights, economic justice, and human dignity. Painted in a rich combination of acrylic and oil, the work gives Sullivan the gravitas the history demands: a man of the cloth who understood that liberation was also an economic act. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a19ed80b9eae977f6d65f6f/3d95db7c-2eff-430f-8618-1d6db4e10906/PJM_6211-Edit.jpg Home Close-up of a vintage painting featuring a woman with dark hair and prominent eyebrows, wearing a black garment, shown in a serious pose with her right hand near her face. Part of another figure with a bearded face and a cigarette is also visible on the left side. The background has muted earth tones and a structure that could be a building or skyscraper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a19ed80b9eae977f6d65f6f/9ca750c1-0b1c-473a-bd99-63bc255f4334/Soviets+2.jpg Home A painting of several military officers in uniform, with some wearing medals, engaged in conversation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a19ed80b9eae977f6d65f6f/cbbb472a-b03d-49c2-9f6b-a11a48fc5825/Skywalker.jpg Home Painted portrait of a young man dressed as a soldier, standing outdoors on a brushed, textured background with muted colors, holding a helmet and equipped with gear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a19ed80b9eae977f6d65f6f/584685ed-40ee-4fc7-89a3-98ede4ec05cd/PJM_6214-Edit.jpg Home A hand-painted artwork of a NY Giants football player in uniform with the number 15, holding a football, and wearing a helmet with a face guard. The crowd fades out of view with muted colors and an abstract style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a19ed80b9eae977f6d65f6f/d070c4a0-d8ae-4c2f-8a49-4815293eb218/Lie.jpg Home A digital sketch of a woman with long hair, one eye partially closed, and her mouth open, showing teeth, with a bold and expressive style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a19ed80b9eae977f6d65f6f/1a1cdef5-4b72-442b-8e4e-6e71aa1812b6/muddy+waters2.jpg Home Muddy Waters, Undated Graphite on paper · 14 × 20 inches This portrait places Muddy Waters squarely in his Chess Records prime — the era that electrified the blues and quietly rewired popular music forever. Rendered in graphite, the choice of medium feels right for the subject: raw, direct, no ornamentation. The texture of the pencil work carries the same honest grain as the music itself. For an artist who grew up listening to the blues, this was less an assignment than a conversation across time — one musician to another, separated only by medium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a19ed80b9eae977f6d65f6f/fbc12618-2041-460c-9dda-c331b7c7b768/Candidate+Obama.jpg Home Candidate Obama, 2007 Digital illustration Created in 2007, before the world knew how the story would unfold, this portrait captures Barack Obama at the threshold — a man carrying the weight of possibility. The work draws consciously from the great editorial illustrators of the 1960s, channeling the bold graphic sensibility of that era to evoke something Kennedy-esque: youth, promise, and the particular electricity of a moment when history feels like it might actually turn. It is less a likeness than a feeling — the portrait of an idea whose time had come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a19ed80b9eae977f6d65f6f/9fdc72b4-96bf-446d-82ea-652330253d67/Billy+Painting.jpg Home Commissioned Portrait of Billy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a19ed80b9eae977f6d65f6f/81248647-d1d6-4c6b-9744-53bfa1371322/Image.jpeg Home Charles Mingus, Undated Acrylic on canvas · 8 × 10 inches · Private collection Commissioned and now held in a private collection, this portrait catches Mingus mid-motion — the jazzman in full flight, inseparable from his bass. Painted in acrylic, the work doesn't try to mythologize its subject so much as inhabit the moment with him: the physical communion between a musician and his instrument, the particular intensity Mingus brought to every performance. Small in scale, enormous in presence. https://www.mikefacey.com/about daily 0.75 2026-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a19ed80b9eae977f6d65f6f/1780692296707-51MO2E0RREOEZWF4GVYN/IMG_1918.jpg About Close-up black and white photo of the artist, Mike Facey.