Month: November 2011
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Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
Though we have hundreds of his drawings, we have precious few of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings. Depending on questions of attribution, perhaps 15 survive, of only 20 or so known works painted in his lifetime (see the list of extant works on Wikipedia). Of Leonardo’s existing paintings, more than half of them, 9 works, will…
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John Budicin
California based painter John Budicin often works with a muted palette and seeks out subjects with subtle value contrasts, though he also works with higher contrast subjects in a brighter range of color. I particularly enjoy those compositions in which he places the foreground and subject in shadow, with more brightly lit objects in the…
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Gérald Guerlais
I first encountered French illustrator Gérald Guerlais through the Sketchtravel charity project, of which he is a co-founder along with Daisuke Tsutsumi (see my recent article on Sketchtravel). Guerlais has a wonderfully springy and energetic style, with some of the feeling of good hand-drawn animation art. His website opens to the portfolio, which is unfortunately…
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William Wray (update)
Since I last wrote about his work back in 2006, California painter William Wray has moved even further toward abstraction. By “abstraction” I don’t mean non-representational art, but the original sense of the word, now somewhat lost, meaning to distill the essence of something. He has also moved from a more muted palette to a…