Month: May 2014
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The Gold Sparrow
With an imaginative use of color, artful rotoscoping and beautiful production design, The Gold Sparrow (Vimeo link) is a visually appealing animated short that has garnered numerous awards. The 12 minute film was directed by Daniel Stessen, with director of animation Michael Garza and music by The Brothers Lit. There is a website for the…
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Patrick Woodroffe, 1940-2014
English artist Patrick Woodroffe began his career as a fantasy and science fiction illustrator, as well as contributing to a number of album covers. He eventually developed into a wonderfully idiosyncratic gallery artist, taking influences from medieval art, Bosch, Bruegel, Van Eyck and others. Patrick Woodroffe died last Saturday, May 10, 2014 at the age…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Leighton’s neighbor
My Next-Door Neighbor, Edmund Blair Leighton On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in a private collection. I love the feeling of implied narrative here — left open for the viewer to fill out the story. A passing glance? The beginnings of pursuit? An established connection? A past flame? Infidelity? Envy? A fondness for dogs?
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My article in the Spring 2014 issue of Drawing Magazine
I’ve written another article for Drawing magazine. This one appears in the new Spring 2014 issue, that is now in bookstores and newsstands. In the article, titled “Fresh Ink”, I profile seven contemporary artists working in ink, in a variety of approaches and styles. This even includes “digital ink”, in the drawings of Marcos Mateu-Mestre,…
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Eye Candy for Today: early Pissarro river scene
The Marne at Chennevières, Camille Pissarro On the Google Art Project. High-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Galleries of Scotland. Similar to my fondness for Monet’s early work, I just love these early landscape paintings by Camille Pissarro, before he adopted his mature Impressionist style. Colorful and painterly, they still…
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H. R. Giger, 1940-2014
H.R. Giger was an influential Swiss painter, sculptor, set designer and concept designer. Giger is most known for his designs for the film Aliens, and its successors, as well as working on a number of less well known film projects. He also did work used on numerous album covers and has left his mark on…