Month: June 2006
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Dave Bruner
I recently attended the Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Annual, a delightful outdoor art fair that has been happening in Philadelphia’s jewel of a city park for 75 years. I’ve been going to the show since I was a teenager, and I think of it as marking the beginning of the Summer. (Last year they added…
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Designers who blog (update)
Designers who blog, Catherine (cat) Morley’s terrific blog about just that, featured another post about lines and colors today (permalink here), with a focus on my post about “Painting a day” blogs. I’ve written about Morley’s great selection of designers’ blogs before, as well as her Cat’s Fancy column for Creative Latitude in which she…
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Benoît Mandelbrot
Benoît Mandelbrot is not an artist in the usual sense of the word. He doesn’t work with oils, watercolors, pastels or colored pencils, yet he has created work of extraordinary beauty. Benoît Mandelbrot is a mathematician. He coined the term “fractal” in 1975 to describe a shape that appears similar at all levels of magnification.…
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Toni DiTerlizzi
Like any artists, illustrators must choose where their work will “live” on the spectrum of styles and genres. Toni DiTerlizzi lives somewhere between adventure fantasy and children’s book whimsey, where dragons and fairies meet spiders and flies and giant pink rabbit-eared creatures appear in kids’ bedrooms. His work shows the influence of some of the…
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Crockett Johnson
When I was about 8 years old my parents made the mistake of giving me a wonderful book. It looked like an innocent enough childrens’ book. It had a brown cover and a drawing of a young boy, who, I would soon learn, was “Harold”, and he had a large purple crayon with which he…
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Mathias Verhasselt
One of the interesting approaches to developing a style and warming up for larger projects that is common among digital painters, particularly those involved in concept design, is the practice of “speed painting”. The immediacy, absence of concerns with drying time and absorption of traditional materials, the ability to change brush sizes almost instantly and…