Month: October 2009
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Donato Giancola paints “The Mechanic”
Donato Giancola, the renowned science fiction and fantasy illustrator that I wrote about previously last year and in 2005, has a new instructional DVD (more details here), published by Massive Black Media, in which the camera follows him through the creation of “The Mechanic” (larger version here), an painting that was created specifically for the…
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Jon Foster (update 2)
Jon Foster, who I wrote about previously here and here, has a new web site. It is simultaneously wonderful and frustrating. It’s wonderful, of course, because it features even more of Foster’s elegant, painterly, and superbly accomplished illustrations, old and new; and now includes a terrific section of sketches. It’s frustrating because it simply doesn’t…
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Chris Ware’s Unmasked
Unmasked is a Halloween themed cover and four page comic story (two double page spreads) for the November 2nd issue of The New Yorker, by Chris Ware. In a fashion Chris Ware fans have come to expect, the hilarious but subtle cover leads seamlessly into the story, a poignant look at generational and family relations,…
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M. Shawn Cornell
M. Shawn Cornell’s web site opens with the statement "If you see snow in the painting, it means that the artist was standing in snow. If you see rain in the painting, it means that the artist was getting very wet." Inexplicably, it requires that you drill down into Paintings, and then choose a sub-section…
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A is for Atom
A is for Atom is a 1952 (released in 1953) educational cartoon explaining the wonders and mysteries of atomic power, sponsored by General Electric and directed by Carl Urbano (who later went on to work for Hanna & Barbara). Like the more well known and widely distributed Our Friend the Atom, a longer, part live…
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Jean Fouquet
Jean Fouquet was a painter of portraits and landscapes, even though, as a painter of the early Renaissance in 15th century France, he was largely limited to painting those things in the context of religious art (see my post on Giovanni Bellini). Fouquet was the court painter to Louis XI, and is usually regarded as…