Month: February 2006
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Frezzato (Massimiliano Frezzato)
Massimiliano Frezzato, (usually referred to, Elvis-style, as simply Frezzato) is a highly regarded Italian comics artist. Frezzato was born and lives in Torino, site of the current Winter Olympics. (how’s that for a topical tie-in?) Although he has worked an a number of projects and short features he is best known as the artist of…
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Belinda Del Pesco
Belinda Del Pesco is a watercolorist from California who has a terrific blog, Belinda Del Pesco Fine Art, in which she not only posts her work, but describes her working methods along with images of the work in progress. She has the kind of approach to watercolor that I admire: clear and fresh color built…
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Stephan Martiniere
Stephan Martiniere has done concept and production art for films like Star Wars, Episodes II and III, I, Robot, Red Planet, Dragonheart and others. He has also done concept design for theme parks and animation as well as doing book and magazine illustration. During his three year stint at CYAN he was visual design director…
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Chris Ware (F.C. Ware)
It’s possible that some of you have not heard of Chris Ware, particularly if you’ve been living in a refrigerator box somewhere. His books of comic art have been reviewed and written about in all levels of the press lately. It’s a little more likely, though, that you have heard of him but may not…
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Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte is one of my two favorite “ignored” Impressionists. (The other being Alfred Sisley, who simply doesn’t get the respect he deserves.) Like Sisley, I find Caillebotte to be less formulaic and slavish to the “ideals” of Impressionism, and more likely to paint directly, leaning a bit more toward Courbet’s realism than the “major”…
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Virgil Finlay
Virgil Finlay was one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy artists. He started working for Weird Tales in 1935 and continued to work for that magazine and others for over 35 years. He was a prolific artist and created more than 2,500 images. Although Finlay created many color cover paintings for magazines, the majority…