Gary Mills
@garymillsfineart.bsky.social
Analogue artist/illustrator | He/him | Clients include: Arrow Video, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Mondo & Bottleneck Gallery
https://www.garymillsfineart.com
https://www.garymillsfineart.com
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New today on the site!
"The Courage to Teach" - @eccantwell.bsky.social on George Roy Hill's SLAP SHOT
(🎨 by @garymillsfineart.bsky.social)
"The Courage to Teach" - @eccantwell.bsky.social on George Roy Hill's SLAP SHOT
(🎨 by @garymillsfineart.bsky.social)
Slap Shot (1977): The Courage To Teach
One could criticize Reggie Dunlop (Newman), “player-coach” of the Charlestown Chiefs in George Roy Hill's chaotically raunchy Slap Shot, for a wide variety of character flaws & professional failings—b...
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September 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New today on the site!
"The Courage to Teach" - @eccantwell.bsky.social on George Roy Hill's SLAP SHOT
(🎨 by @garymillsfineart.bsky.social)
"The Courage to Teach" - @eccantwell.bsky.social on George Roy Hill's SLAP SHOT
(🎨 by @garymillsfineart.bsky.social)
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The Sweeney is 50 years old this year. John M Burns did this illustration for an article in the UK magazine Reveille in 1978.
September 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The Sweeney is 50 years old this year. John M Burns did this illustration for an article in the UK magazine Reveille in 1978.
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Here’s my piece for the @Galleries1988 Crazy 4 Cult show, a tribute to Gene Hackman. Airbrush, acrylics & coloured pencil on line & wash board.
If you’d like to buy a painting of an old man smoking and you’re in the LA area, then from tomorrow you can. Prints will be available too.
If you’d like to buy a painting of an old man smoking and you’re in the LA area, then from tomorrow you can. Prints will be available too.
September 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Here’s my piece for the @Galleries1988 Crazy 4 Cult show, a tribute to Gene Hackman. Airbrush, acrylics & coloured pencil on line & wash board.
If you’d like to buy a painting of an old man smoking and you’re in the LA area, then from tomorrow you can. Prints will be available too.
If you’d like to buy a painting of an old man smoking and you’re in the LA area, then from tomorrow you can. Prints will be available too.
Here’s my piece for the @Galleries1988 Crazy 4 Cult show, a tribute to Gene Hackman. Airbrush, acrylics & coloured pencil on line & wash board.
If you’d like to buy a painting of an old man smoking and you’re in the LA area, then from tomorrow you can. Prints will be available too.
If you’d like to buy a painting of an old man smoking and you’re in the LA area, then from tomorrow you can. Prints will be available too.
September 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Here’s my piece for the @Galleries1988 Crazy 4 Cult show, a tribute to Gene Hackman. Airbrush, acrylics & coloured pencil on line & wash board.
If you’d like to buy a painting of an old man smoking and you’re in the LA area, then from tomorrow you can. Prints will be available too.
If you’d like to buy a painting of an old man smoking and you’re in the LA area, then from tomorrow you can. Prints will be available too.
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Real talk (reel talk?):
BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.
BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.
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August 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Real talk (reel talk?):
BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.
BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.
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New work for @bwdr.bsky.social illustrating an essay by @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social on Jonathan Demme’s 2004 thriller The Manchurian Candidate, starring Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep & Liev Schreiber.
August 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
New work for @bwdr.bsky.social illustrating an essay by @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social on Jonathan Demme’s 2004 thriller The Manchurian Candidate, starring Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep & Liev Schreiber.
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New today on the site!
“What’s Life About Anyway?”: The Imperial Dreams & Bloody Truths of Jonathan Demme’s THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
- @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social
(art by @garymillsfineart.bsky.social)
“What’s Life About Anyway?”: The Imperial Dreams & Bloody Truths of Jonathan Demme’s THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
- @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social
(art by @garymillsfineart.bsky.social)
The Manchurian Candidate: Imperial Dreams and Bloody Truths
In Jonathan Demme’s 2004 adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate, the truth is a nightmare.
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August 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
New today on the site!
“What’s Life About Anyway?”: The Imperial Dreams & Bloody Truths of Jonathan Demme’s THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
- @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social
(art by @garymillsfineart.bsky.social)
“What’s Life About Anyway?”: The Imperial Dreams & Bloody Truths of Jonathan Demme’s THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
- @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social
(art by @garymillsfineart.bsky.social)
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jonathan demme's THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE is a modern american masterpiece, a prescient slice of paranoia and disinformation that understood how much of our political landscape was, & will, be based on lies. honored to write about it for @bwdr.bsky.social.
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August 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
jonathan demme's THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE is a modern american masterpiece, a prescient slice of paranoia and disinformation that understood how much of our political landscape was, & will, be based on lies. honored to write about it for @bwdr.bsky.social.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/08/06/w...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/08/06/w...
New work for @bwdr.bsky.social illustrating an essay by @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social on Jonathan Demme’s 2004 thriller The Manchurian Candidate, starring Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep & Liev Schreiber.
August 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
New work for @bwdr.bsky.social illustrating an essay by @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social on Jonathan Demme’s 2004 thriller The Manchurian Candidate, starring Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep & Liev Schreiber.
Reposted by Gary Mills
Delighted to be asked to paint a portrait of the stupendous Natalie Mering aka Weyes Blood for a birthday gift. Tresses borrowed from Mucha. Airbrush, acrylics & coloured pencil on line & wash board.
July 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Delighted to be asked to paint a portrait of the stupendous Natalie Mering aka Weyes Blood for a birthday gift. Tresses borrowed from Mucha. Airbrush, acrylics & coloured pencil on line & wash board.
Delighted to be asked to paint a portrait of the stupendous Natalie Mering aka Weyes Blood for a birthday gift. Tresses borrowed from Mucha. Airbrush, acrylics & coloured pencil on line & wash board.
July 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Delighted to be asked to paint a portrait of the stupendous Natalie Mering aka Weyes Blood for a birthday gift. Tresses borrowed from Mucha. Airbrush, acrylics & coloured pencil on line & wash board.
Reposted by Gary Mills
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Thanks to @johnfreeman.bsky.social for scanning these gorgeous pages from a leaflet entitled Looking After Yourself in Retirement published in 1982.
July 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Thanks to @johnfreeman.bsky.social for scanning these gorgeous pages from a leaflet entitled Looking After Yourself in Retirement published in 1982.
Hi #PortfolioDay - analogue illustrator here for movie posters, box covers, vinyl covers garymillsfineart.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Hi #PortfolioDay - analogue illustrator here for movie posters, box covers, vinyl covers garymillsfineart.com
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Film and art fans rejoice, I made this very specific starter pack: go.bsky.app/NvGPdbg
June 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Film and art fans rejoice, I made this very specific starter pack: go.bsky.app/NvGPdbg
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#Film89PosterOfTheDay
No.2789
Serpico (1973)
Artist: @garymillsfineart.bsky.social
Director: Sidney Lumet
No.2789
Serpico (1973)
Artist: @garymillsfineart.bsky.social
Director: Sidney Lumet
June 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
#Film89PosterOfTheDay
No.2789
Serpico (1973)
Artist: @garymillsfineart.bsky.social
Director: Sidney Lumet
No.2789
Serpico (1973)
Artist: @garymillsfineart.bsky.social
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Throwback to 2019, and some WIP shots of Shaun of the Dead.
My only stab at an officially licensed poster to date - thanks to the good folk at @bottlenecknyc.bsky.social - but sadly rejected by the studio. Wasn’t really ready for work of this scale in truth.
I’ve since discovered frisket film….🤣
My only stab at an officially licensed poster to date - thanks to the good folk at @bottlenecknyc.bsky.social - but sadly rejected by the studio. Wasn’t really ready for work of this scale in truth.
I’ve since discovered frisket film….🤣
June 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Throwback to 2019, and some WIP shots of Shaun of the Dead.
My only stab at an officially licensed poster to date - thanks to the good folk at @bottlenecknyc.bsky.social - but sadly rejected by the studio. Wasn’t really ready for work of this scale in truth.
I’ve since discovered frisket film….🤣
My only stab at an officially licensed poster to date - thanks to the good folk at @bottlenecknyc.bsky.social - but sadly rejected by the studio. Wasn’t really ready for work of this scale in truth.
I’ve since discovered frisket film….🤣
Throwback to 2019, and some WIP shots of Shaun of the Dead.
My only stab at an officially licensed poster to date - thanks to the good folk at @bottlenecknyc.bsky.social - but sadly rejected by the studio. Wasn’t really ready for work of this scale in truth.
I’ve since discovered frisket film….🤣
My only stab at an officially licensed poster to date - thanks to the good folk at @bottlenecknyc.bsky.social - but sadly rejected by the studio. Wasn’t really ready for work of this scale in truth.
I’ve since discovered frisket film….🤣
June 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Throwback to 2019, and some WIP shots of Shaun of the Dead.
My only stab at an officially licensed poster to date - thanks to the good folk at @bottlenecknyc.bsky.social - but sadly rejected by the studio. Wasn’t really ready for work of this scale in truth.
I’ve since discovered frisket film….🤣
My only stab at an officially licensed poster to date - thanks to the good folk at @bottlenecknyc.bsky.social - but sadly rejected by the studio. Wasn’t really ready for work of this scale in truth.
I’ve since discovered frisket film….🤣
A few detail shots of the original Serpico painting.
I’ll hopefully be making this and a number of my other film poster original artworks available to buy very soon.
What would you like to see me paint next?
I’ll hopefully be making this and a number of my other film poster original artworks available to buy very soon.
What would you like to see me paint next?
June 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A few detail shots of the original Serpico painting.
I’ll hopefully be making this and a number of my other film poster original artworks available to buy very soon.
What would you like to see me paint next?
I’ll hopefully be making this and a number of my other film poster original artworks available to buy very soon.
What would you like to see me paint next?
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Here’s the black, white & gold variant.
June 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Here’s the black, white & gold variant.
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New work - Serpico alternative movie poster for a private print commission group. Original artwork is acrylics, gouache & coloured pencil on line & wash board. Title & billing block in collaboration with Chris Valentine.
June 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New work - Serpico alternative movie poster for a private print commission group. Original artwork is acrylics, gouache & coloured pencil on line & wash board. Title & billing block in collaboration with Chris Valentine.
New work - Serpico alternative movie poster for a private print commission group. Original artwork is acrylics, gouache & coloured pencil on line & wash board. Title & billing block in collaboration with Chris Valentine.
June 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New work - Serpico alternative movie poster for a private print commission group. Original artwork is acrylics, gouache & coloured pencil on line & wash board. Title & billing block in collaboration with Chris Valentine.
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Delighted to be back in the fold at @bwdr.bsky.social illustrating Frank Falisi’s excellent piece on Lynch’s The Elephant Man.
Original artwork is airbrush, acrylic & coloured pencil on line & wash board, and is available to buy - drop me a dm or email if you’re interested.
Original artwork is airbrush, acrylic & coloured pencil on line & wash board, and is available to buy - drop me a dm or email if you’re interested.
April 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Delighted to be back in the fold at @bwdr.bsky.social illustrating Frank Falisi’s excellent piece on Lynch’s The Elephant Man.
Original artwork is airbrush, acrylic & coloured pencil on line & wash board, and is available to buy - drop me a dm or email if you’re interested.
Original artwork is airbrush, acrylic & coloured pencil on line & wash board, and is available to buy - drop me a dm or email if you’re interested.
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New today!
"That THE ELEPHANT MAN dresses up inquiries into genuine, turbulent grace in the historically staid traditions of biopic & period costume drama reveal Lynch’s aspirations to be as formally experimental as they are narratively humanistic."
-Frank Falisi
🎨 by @garymillsfineart.bsky.social
"That THE ELEPHANT MAN dresses up inquiries into genuine, turbulent grace in the historically staid traditions of biopic & period costume drama reveal Lynch’s aspirations to be as formally experimental as they are narratively humanistic."
-Frank Falisi
🎨 by @garymillsfineart.bsky.social
The Elephant Man (1980): Cuff Link Stick Pin
That The Elephant Man dresses up inquiries into genuine, turbulent grace in the historically staid traditions of biopic and period costume drama reveal Lynch’s aspirations to be as formally experiment...
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April 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
New today!
"That THE ELEPHANT MAN dresses up inquiries into genuine, turbulent grace in the historically staid traditions of biopic & period costume drama reveal Lynch’s aspirations to be as formally experimental as they are narratively humanistic."
-Frank Falisi
🎨 by @garymillsfineart.bsky.social
"That THE ELEPHANT MAN dresses up inquiries into genuine, turbulent grace in the historically staid traditions of biopic & period costume drama reveal Lynch’s aspirations to be as formally experimental as they are narratively humanistic."
-Frank Falisi
🎨 by @garymillsfineart.bsky.social
Delighted to be back in the fold at @bwdr.bsky.social illustrating Frank Falisi’s excellent piece on Lynch’s The Elephant Man.
Original artwork is airbrush, acrylic & coloured pencil on line & wash board, and is available to buy - drop me a dm or email if you’re interested.
Original artwork is airbrush, acrylic & coloured pencil on line & wash board, and is available to buy - drop me a dm or email if you’re interested.
April 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Delighted to be back in the fold at @bwdr.bsky.social illustrating Frank Falisi’s excellent piece on Lynch’s The Elephant Man.
Original artwork is airbrush, acrylic & coloured pencil on line & wash board, and is available to buy - drop me a dm or email if you’re interested.
Original artwork is airbrush, acrylic & coloured pencil on line & wash board, and is available to buy - drop me a dm or email if you’re interested.