Month: September 2010
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Al Williamson Archives
It’s a fairly common practice among comics artists to publish “sketchbooks”, sometimes literally that, sometimes collections of more finished drawings. In them we can often see the artist at play, doing preliminary sketches for art from stories with which we’re familiar, indulging in imaginative flights of fancy, doodling, practicing and learning. Rarely do we get…
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The Hell Creek Mural
Every field of artistic endeavor has its own limitations, but it’s often within those limitations, rather than in spite of them, that artists do their best work. In gallery art, artists who wish to survive on the sale of their art must produce work that finds an appreciative audience of buyers, and must often please…
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Continuous Pencil
Well, the “Liquid Pencil” turned out to be a dud, so how about a more modest bit of pencil inventiveness? Most of us who use wooden drawing pencils have experienced the stub problem; once your wooden pencil is worn down to a stub that’s too small to comfortably use, what do you do with it?…
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ImagineFX #60
I’ve written before about ImagineFX, a UK based magazine devoted primarily to 2D digital art (“digital painting”) for the fantasy, science fiction and concept art fields. Almost every issue of the magazine I’ve every seen has had articles of interest to me, (and ImagineFX is one of those magazines, like Illustration magazine, in which even…
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The Vegetable Museum, Ju Duoqi
It has long been an established practice for artists to study the paintings and drawings of artists from the past by creating their own copies of the masters’ work. Ju Duoqi just happens to use vegetables as her medium. Her “Vegetable Museum” is a series in which she has arranged vegetables, fresh and otherwise, chosen…
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Barbara Kacicek
Pennsylvania artist Barbara Kacicek favors a few subjects to which she returns frequently. One is small still life subjects, particularly pears, plums and smooth river stones. Another is compositions of clouds, often mounded and towering cumulus clouds. To these she adds drawings that veer away from realism into “Imaginary Realism”, done with smooth tones of…