Month: August 2009
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Matt Gaser (update)
When I first wrote about Matt Gaser back in 2007, I remember being impressed, but when I recently revisited his site I was knocked out. Gaser is a concept artist and art director for the film industry, though his previous work includes art for gaming companies. He has worked for companies like Electronic Arts and…
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Robert MacKenzie
Robert MacKenzie is a California born artist currently living in New York City and working for Blue SKy Studios, the film and animation development studio whose credits include the Ice Age movies, Horton Hears a Who and Robots. On his blog MacKenzie occasionally posts about his work with Blue Sky, but more often chronicles his…
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Sadie J. Valeri
Value, the quality of light or dark in a tone or color, is one of the most undervalued, misunderstood and vitally important aspects of painting. Sadie J. Valeri is a contemporary realist painter who has followed a fascination with value into a series of challenging still life subjects in which wax paper, a humble household…
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Ivan Titor
Ivan Titor is a Czech painter whose work floats in that hazy twilight between representational and non-representational painting. He paints objects, but they are often not identifiable. You might fit them into the category of freely imagined or hallucinatory landscapes. As such he puts me in mind of Surrealists and Dadaists like Yves Tanguy and…
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Count Amadeo Preziosi
In the 19th Century a number of European artists, and many American artists, traveled to destinations in what we in Europe and the U.S. would now call the “Middle East”, staying for months or even years, returning home with paintings of exotic cities, landscapes and costumed figures that were immensely popular (see my post on…
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William James Aylward
William James Aylward was a student of the great American illustrator Howard Pyle, and carried forth Pyles’ masterful control of tone, color and pictorial drama. Aylward was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin, son of a shipbuilder and Great Lakes ship captain, and had a lifelong fascination with ships and marine subjects, which Pyles’ wonderful pirate ships…