Month: May 2010
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Alchemeyez: Visionary Art Conference
Visionary art might be loosely described as an attempt to express the inexpressible, to make manifest a visual statement of an inner mystical or visionary experience that is almost universally categorized as one that cannot be directly described in conventional terms. Still the desire of artists to create some form of expression in response to…
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Calvin Liang
California based plein air painter Calvin Liang was born in Canton, China, studied at the Shcnghai Academy of Fine Arts and went to work designing and creating sets for the Canton Opera Institute. Liang moved to the U.S. and shifted his attention to animation, working for Walt Disney Studio and Nickelodeon. He became interested in…
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Chris Sheban (update)
When I first wrote about Chicago based illustrator Chris Sheban back in 2007, he had little presence on the web except on his rep’s site and on Workbook. A friend of mine let me know that Sheban now has a website. Although there is still no bio, client list or information on technique (I’m not…
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Pencil vs. Camera (Ben Heine)
Pencil vs. Camera is project by Belgian painter, illustrator, caricaturist and photographer Ben Heine, in which he draws part of a scene, usually in a fanciful interpretation of it, and then takes a photograph of the drawing held up against the original scene or photograph. The drawing is usually on a ragged-edged, odd shaped piece…
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Zip and L’il Bit: The Captain’s Quest
I was delighted to learn that Zip and L’il Bit, a series of webcomics by Trade Loeffler that I first wrote about in 2006 when I discovered the first story, The Upside-Down Me, and again in 2007 when Loeffler published the second adventure, The Sky Kayak, has returned after a long hiatus in a new…
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Velázquez’s Las meninas and Sargent’s Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Despite the way he has for years been dismissed by critics as a facile but emotionless society painter, I’ve long felt that John Singer Sargent was one of the great painters in the history of Western Art. Though he still doesn’t get the respect I think he deserves, Sargent’s star has risen in recent years.…