Author: cparker
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Fred Tomaselli
American artist Fred Tomaselli creates intricately detailed and highly colorful works that are both representational and decorative. Tomaselli utilizes both painting and and collage techniques; the latter including unorthodox (and sometimes even illegal) materials like flowers, herbs, prescription pills and hallucinogenic plants. He will also use photographic elements and direct painting in gouache; and adheres…
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John Berkey (update)
John Berkey, who died in 2008, was one of the premiere space artists. His distinctive style graced the covers and interiors of a wide variety of publications with visionary images of the future. Berkey had a wider range of style and subject matter than is widely known. Since my article about John Berkey in 2006,…
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Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2010!
In what is becoming something of a tradition, I’ll wrap up the year with four more Saturday Evening Post covers from the early 20th Century featuring New Year’s babies from J.C. Leyendecker, the illustrator who started the practice of representing the new year as a baby. For more on the history of Leyendecker’s New Year’s…
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David Levine
David Levine was one of the great caricaturists of the 20th Century. He is best known for his drawings of notable figures published in The New York Review of Books over the course of more than 40 years. The NYRB web site has a gallery of over 2,500 of his drawings that can be browsed…
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Different Strokes From Different Folks Year End Portrait Swap
I’ve written before about Karin Jurick, both about her own wonderful paintings and her ongoing group painting blog, Different Strokes From Different Folks in which numerous artists paint their own interpretation of the same photographic resource in periodic challenges. I also wrote last year about the Different Strokes From Different Folks Portrait Swap, in which…
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John Watkiss concept art for Sherlock Holmes
Ordinarily, concept art for film is created as a means of visualizing scenes before they are staged and filmed; giving directors, designers and production companies a guide as they develop the components necessary to actually bring the scene to to the screen. However, according to Borys Kit of The Hollywood Reporter, this is a case…