Month: September 2006
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Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein was most famous for his large canvasses in which he reproduced bits of popular advertisements and, in particular, panels from comic books, complete with renderings of oversize process color dots. As much as I enjoyed seeing representations of comic panels displayed large, I always had a problem with Lichtenstein’s use of…
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Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey was an American illustrator and muralist. Born here in Philadelphia, he moved to New York as a teenager (not that the term “teenager” was used in those days) and began doing illustration for Harper’s. When he was in his 20’s, Harper’s sent him to England to do research for an illustration project…
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William Wray
William Wray is a California painter. His blog, in fact, is titled California Painter William Wray. He paints quickly realized, direct and painterly images of the California landscape in the area around where he lives; and frequently posts the paintings to his blog. He works primarily en plein air and sometimes supplements the outdoor work…
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JacksonPollock.org
Ever wanted to be Jackson Pollock, indulge in “Action Painting”, be the darling of the smart set and express your existential angst by throwing paint at the canvas? JacksonPollock.org is a web site by Miltos Manetas that lets you do just that, at least virtually. It’s a Flash-based interactive in which you can spatter, drip…
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Elizabeth Traynor
I’m particularly fond of pen and ink illustration, and its less common variant, scratchboard. Scratchboard is the inverse, or “dark side” (I couldn’t resist) of pen and ink drawing, in which a specially prepared board, coated with a thin layer of white clay, is used as the foundation for the drawing. Large areas of (usually)…
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Vyle (David Levy)
Vyle is the professional pseudonym for concept artist, art director and designer David Levy. He works primarily in the gaming industry and is perhaps most noted for his work on Prince of Persia. He has also done work in the film industry. Vyle seems to work primarily digitally, usually in Photoshop and sometimes back and…