Month: September 2010
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Jeremy Bastian
I just came across Jeremy Bastian this morning in Cory Doctrow’s post on BoingBoing about a commissioned drawing he did: an extravagantly detailed homage to Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo (see my posts on Winsor McCay, and here). The owner of the drawing, Ben Friedman, has been kind enough to share it with us by posting…
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Blow Up: Hanuka, Shimizu, Weber
Blow Up: Hanuka, Shimizu, Weber is an exhibit at the Society of Illustrators in NY that features three artists I’ve profiled previously, Tomer Hanuka, Yuko Shimizu and Sam Weber. The organizers make a point of the disparate backgrounds and visual approaches of the three artists. Hanuka’s richly colored comics illustrations, Shimizu’s admixture of Yukio-e and…
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Don Kenn
Don Kenn (whose blog also confusingly lists him as John Kenn) is a Danish writer and director of childrens’ television shows. In his limited spare time he draws “Monsterdrawings” on Post-It notes; as he describes them “…a little window into a different world, made on office supplies”. The drawings, of ghouls and ghosts, sea monsters…
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Mark Summers (update)
I have long been fascinated by pen and ink drawing, and its mirror world cousin, scratchboard. Both are demanding mediums, but scratchboard is additionally difficult in that the unfamiliarity of working by subtraction rather than addition takes some practice, as well a mental shift (in common with some printmaking techniques); but the rewards are a…
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Kenn Backhaus
Kenn Backhaus is a contemporary realist painter who is a Signature Member of Oil Painters of America and past president of Plein Air Painters of America. Backhaus was one of the painters featured in the 2007 PBS series Plein Air, Painting the American Landscape, and is instrumental in the independently produced series Passport and Palette,…