Month: January 2010
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Nate Simpson
Nate Simpson is a concept artist who has worked in the gaming industry since 1993. He has worked for companies like The Dreamers Guild, Taldren, GoPets Inc. and Gas Powered Games. His credits include leading the art team for Demigod, a 2009 game from Gas Powered Games and Stardock, from which you can see an…
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Jeffrey Hayes (update)
I’ve profiled Boston based painter Jeffrey Hayes before (also here and here). After being an early adopter of the painting a day regimen, Hayes realized that his inclinations required more time, even when painting on an intimate scale. Today he follows that direction, painting small, carefully composed and rendered still life paintings, with an eye…
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Ed Binkley
Concept artist and illustrator Ed Binkley has crafted a style of illustration that seems at once old and new. His finely detailed, almost monochromatic images feel as though they are from another time, or perhaps another place, with fantasy subjects inhabiting misty woods and glades, all drawn with meticulous care. Despite the level of detail…
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Isaac Levitan
Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Isaak Il’ich Levitan) was one of the greatest of Russian landscape painters, one of the greatest Russian painters in general, and one of the great landscape painters in the history of art. Born into a poor family, he managed to begin study at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture when his…
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István Orosz
In my post from 2008 about Anamorphic Art, I briefly mentioned the work of Hungarian artist István Orosz. Orosz is a graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker, poster artist, animator, stage designer and painter. He has a fascination with anamorphosis, and has several examples of his own in the gallery on his web site. Unfortunately the site…
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Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
A “Book or hours” (Wikipedia) is a devotional text of prayers, stories and psalms common in the Middle Ages. Though they followed similar forms, each was unique and, of course, hand lettered. Many of them were illuminated, but few as lavishly and beautifully as the one known as The Hours of Catherine of Cleves. It…