Month: June 2006
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Aubrey Beardsley
For an artist intimately fascinated with line, Aubrey Beardsley walked many of them himself. He walked a line between sickness and health, suffering from tuberculosis as a child and facing repeated bouts of ill-health before succumbing to it at the age of 25. His ink drawings, illustrations and prints walked the line between drawing, design…
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John Berkey
John Berkey’s name is one of two immediately associated with space art. Unlike the realistic, near-future projections of Chesley Bonestell, Berkey’s images usually portray a far-advanced future, glimmering with high technology ships, space stations and other-worldly constructions portrayed on a grand scale. His paintings can look photorealistic when reduced for publication or viewed in small…
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Jane Tomlinson
In one way or another, all artists make choices about subject matter. Our subjects define our work as much as our style, approach or materials. UK watercolorist Jane Tomlinson, who was trained in printmaking and paperworks but is self-taught as a painter, paints sunflowers, animals, scenes from her travels abroad, and scenes of “Earth Magic”…
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Iain McCaig
The fantastic characters that populate modern fantasy and science fiction movies have to take their initial form in someone’s imagination, long before the casting director, costumers and actors bring them to the screen. Usually, they first come to life in the mind of a concept designer. The more fertile that designer’s imagination, the more striking…