Author: cparker
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Secrets of Corel Painter Experts
Among artists who work in the medium of digital painting, most notably visual development artists, comic book artists and illustrators, the two most popular applications for painting and drawing directly on the computer with a ressure-sensitive stylus and tablet are Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. Photoshop, because of it’s much broader range of use in…
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Heart of the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church
I’ve suggested on several occasions that prior to the invention of movies as we know them, painters were the special effects wizards of their day, wowing the faithful (and cowing the doubtful) in church altarpieces and murals, and, in the 19th Century, displaying their detailed large scale works in theatrical settings, in some ways anticipating…
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TIJI Colour, Akama Studio
Colour (Vimeo link) is a beautifully realized short animation (2:30) in which a moving brush brings color to a black and white jungle landscape and its inhabitants — save one. The commercial short was done for TIJI, which I believe is a French children’s channel. It was created by Akama Studio, working with the production…
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The Linosaurus
The Linosaurus is a fascinating blog devoted to “…the lesser Gods and Goddesses of linoleum and woodblock printing”. In it, the author, a blogger in the Netherlands (who I identifed as “Gerrie Caspers”, inferred from the URL of the blog and his email address) selects printmakers both old and contemporary, known and unknown, and features…
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Did Van Gogh have protanomal color deficiency?
About 8 percent of male human beings, and a much smaller 0.5 percent of females, have some form of color vision deficiency, commonly called “color blindness”, in which the perception of colors is limited or altered in some way compared to the general population. It has been suggested at times that Vincent van Gogh’s unusual…
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John Bonner
I came across the work of John Bonner through his Comic Crits — book reviews in the form of comic strips (see my previous post on Comic Crits). Unfortunately the images of his work in his online gallery are frustratingly small, given the relatively large scale of his work. You can find somewhat larger images…