Hand-Painted
Sports Art
That Captures the Legends, Moments, and Emotion of the Game
Featured Work
Baseball
football
basketball
Other
Why Paul Lempa
- Award-winning artist shown from NY to Paris
- Featured in Smithsonian Hometown Teams Exhibit
- Personalized athlete/family/player commissions
- Professional trading card artist
“Own a one-of-one piece of sports history.”
All
Baseball
Football
Basketball
Other
All
Baseball
Football
Basketball
Other
Press Credentials
Cardboard Connection — “Artist / Collector Paul Lempa Combines Passions, Creates Sketch Cards for Topps”
This is probably the best feature article for the website.
It specifically says Paul was tapped by Topps to create 1/1 sketch cards for 2008 Stadium Club Baseball, had more sketch-card work in 2009 Topps Baseball, and was doing National Chicle football artwork.
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Sports Collectors Daily — “Sketch Artist Working Hard for Topps”
Good publicity piece tying Paul directly to Topps sketch-card work and the Hudson Reporter profile.
The search result says Paul was “burning the midnight oil” creating baseball-card sketches for upcoming Topps packs.
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ESPN / Page 2 — “Topps to allow fans to draw their own trading cards”
This is a very strong credibility link. ESPN shows a Paul Lempa painted trading card and says Jersey City artist
Paul Lempa used paint on a 2½ x 3½ inch card canvas, which set him apart from typical pencil/ink sketch-card artists.
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