I came across some illustrations by Nelson Gelgud on the BAM website. The project is called “The John Turturro Mid-eighties Hat Trick” and it’s about three films Turturro made before he teamed up with Spike Lee and the Coen Brothers.

Gelgud has an illustration blog called Take the Soda Free and Jet and another blog where he writes about movies. Tami Mnoian wrote about him for Print Magazine. 

Nathan Gelgud illustrates tiny collections of things, as if he has released the contents of his pocket and taken pen to paper. While the renderings are small, the subjects are certainly not: Steve Martin, Sal Mineo, and Spuds McKenzie (see above), or Felix Mendelssohn, Frances McDormand and Fred MacMurray—personalities  who share the same initials. This is Gelgud’s talent. He miniaturizes and contains so that his figures look like they belong in a curio cabinet, visible and ready for adoration.

Gelgud’s work is featured on a wall in Greenpoint’s In God We Trust, where he depicts the famous noggins of William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Philip Roth, to name a few.