Saturday, February 28, 2015

Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney at Stamford Museum [feedly]



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Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney at Stamford Museum
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Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney at Stamford Museum
James Gurney has become widely known for his instructional books and videos as well as his role as a plein air painter, lecturer and popular blogger, but it was his series of fantastic Dinotopia adventure picture books that originally attracted the most notice — in the art community, the paleo art community and among the dedicated readers who came to love the books.

In the Dinotopia series, Gurney brings to bear his study of classical artists and techniques — and in particular, late 19th century academic art — to create a world in which dinosaurs and humans co-exist amid architectural and natural splendor.

Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney is an exhibit of over 50 original paintings from the series, along with maquettes, models and related material, currently on display at the Stamford Museum and Nature Center in Stamford, CT.

You can read a post from Gurney's blog about the exhibit, which runs until May 25, 2015.

Gurney points out that this exhibit is completely different from the one that was at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in CT a few years ago, but I think it is similar in scope and contents to the Dinotopia exhibits at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in 2013, and the one I has the pleasure of seeing at the Delaware Art Museum in 2010. If so, I can vouch for it as a terrific show, one of broader interest than you might think. Gurney's influences and technique transcend the genres of paleo and fantasy art, and encompass classical art in many ways.

As far as I know, there isn't a gallery of works specifically from the exhibition, but you can see Dinotopia art in general on the Dinotopia website, James Gurney's website, and his blog, GurneyJourney.


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William S. Burroughs on Creativity [feedly]



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William S. Burroughs on Creativity
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William S. Burroughs on Creativity:

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"The word "should" should never arise — there is no such concept as "should" with regard to art… ."


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Decoding #TheDress with Color Artist Nathan Fairbairn
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Friday, February 27, 2015

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Textural, expressive illustration from Berlin-based illustrator Beth Walrond [feedly]



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Textural, expressive illustration from Berlin-based illustrator Beth Walrond
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Despite only having graduated from Falmouth University last summer illustrator Beth Walrond already has an admirable portfolio of work to show for herself. This is probably due to the warmth and relatable nature of her style – she builds textural, expressive characters out of geometric shapes and soft lines to create identifiable narratives, condensing complex messages down into sweet, two-dimensional form. Now working out of Berlin, her newest projects include work for Hunger Magazine, The Ride Journal, Wired UK and The Debrief, leading us to believe she's got a hell of a lot more ideas to get down on paper yet.

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They Can Be Moody, Too [feedly]



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They Can Be Moody, Too
// Artist Daily

The Depth of Colored Pencil

I'll admit that in the past I have been guilty of thinking of colored pencil art as colorful and bright and not necessarily able to be coupled with serious subjects or moody narratives. But that was my own bias. As I've spent time looking at sketchbooks of draftsmen creating colored pencil art and figure drawings made using colored pencils, I've discovered that the medium is as diverse as any other.

Seeds Of Memory by David Suff, colored pencil drawing, 20 x 28.
Seeds Of Memory by David Suff, colored pencil drawing, 20 x 28.
My blind spot with colored pencil drawings largely has to do with the way I've seen the implements used. I've seen drawings where the paper is literally covered with dense layers of color, which can make the surface waxy, unusable, and uninteresting.

But recently I've seen life-drawing sketches of figures made with colored pencils that show how much depth and subtlety the medium is capable of when light hatchmarks are used. Colors are built up in controlled layers of line, and the lightness of the paper underneath is allowed to shine through and illuminate the marks.

Colored pencil sketch by James Jean, detail.
Colored pencil sketch
by James Jean, detail.

In figure drawings, this is an exciting prospect. I can apply what I already know about drawing but add color into the mix, all while making the motions and marks that I love. So you can draw a dusky, moody figure with colored pencils of orange and blue and red, applying line over line to create passages that are unexpectedly complex and show a lot of depth. And, when used on paper with a lot of tooth, colored pencil art can have a truly interesting surface that dispels all of my past biases completely.

To gain more insight on colored pencil techniques--from the basics and beyond--consider Mark Menendez's colored pencil packets, Bengal Tiger Pattern Packet and Primrose Tea Pattern Packet. Menendez is a colored pencil drawing expert and really shows how to make the medium shine. Enjoy!


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drawingden:*UPDATED VERSION*Digital PaintingAutodesk SketchBook... [feedly]



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drawingden:*UPDATED VERSION*Digital PaintingAutodesk SketchBook...
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*UPDATED VERSION*

Digital Painting

  • Autodesk SketchBook Copic Edition - This is the limited edition of SketchBook Pro with 72 Copic colours to choose from
  • Krita - Krita offers CMYK support, HDR painting, perspective grids, dockers, filters, painting assistants, and many other great features
  • GIMP - GIMP is a well known free alternative to Photoshop with similar features 
  • Mischief Free Version - With six essential brushes, a basic palette of colors and an infinite vector canvas, Mischief-Free is perfect for hashing out ideas, life drawing, and endless doodles
  • MyPaint - MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters, and comes with 39 different brushes
  • Verve Painter - Verve is a small painting application that uses fluid dynamics and brushes to push the paint around, though it is still in development.
  • Inkscape - Inkscape is an open-source professional quality vector graphics software with sophisticated drawing tools with capabilities comparable to Adobe Illustrator.
  • FireAlpaca - A similar program to Paint Tool Sai that offers features such as a snap feature which creates a variety of perspective overlays.

3D Modelling  

  • Google Sketchup - Drawing-based tool for architects, designers, builders, makers and engineers who design for the physical world. SketchUp Make is a free version and SketchUp Pro is a paid version with additional functionality.
  • Sculptris - A free, introductory digital sculpting tool, a great stepping stone for digital sculptors, created by the makers of Zbrush.
  • Blender - A powerful application with full-fledged professional tools, Blender has a wide community and resources to help you learn.
  • SculptGL - This handy modelling program works online in your browser and is compatible with wacom tablets

Animation

  • Synfig - Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.
  • ToonBoom Animate PLE Edition - The free Personal Learning Edition gives you the opportunity to learn all the features of Toon Boom Animate and Toon Boom Animate Pro.
  • EmoFuri - EmoFuri is a new animation software that helps artists easily animate photoshop illustrations in a 2D-3D style.It uses PSD files of character illustrations to animate them. 
  • Pencil2D - Pencil2D is an open-source animation/drawing software that lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation using both bitmap and vector graphics.
  • Live2D - This increasingly popular 2D-3D animation software is similar to Emofuri with sample models available to experiment with, and is also available in english.

Etc

  • Thisissand - An online fun and unique playground for creating colourful sandscapes, also comes in an app version
  • Flame Painter - A free demo of the full program, it allows you to try out the flame generator and change different brush settings and paint your own flame paintings
  • Silk - An online interactive generative art program that creates bright silk-like patterns, with options to change colours and rotational symmetry.
  • Bomomo - This interesting program has a group of dots that move around the screen in the pattern you choose, then paint the canvas according to when you click the screen.

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It's Nice That : Fight Club 2 artwork and six-page teaser unveiled [feedly]



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It's Nice That : Fight Club 2 artwork and six-page teaser unveiled
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/fight-club-2
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of Montreal art director David Barnes on design for bands and working til 5am [feedly]



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of Montreal art director David Barnes on design for bands and working til 5am
// It's Nice That

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"I like working at night when the world is quiet and all the residual energy is loose and flowing around in the atmosphere because most people are asleep and not gobbling it all up," says David Barnes. "I'm not sure if that's a real thing or not but thinking that way motivates me to stay up til 5am working distraction-free, feeding off the dreams of others."

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Oil Painting Progress [feedly]



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Oil Painting Progress
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By Donato

This is one of those weeks (months/years) where I will be a bit short on my blogging/posting as I commit most of my labor to the creation of the large format oil painting  Beren and Luthien in the Court of Thingol and Melian.  Here are a few progress shots as of today.

Most of the color you see is the acrylic wash layers.  I have now begun the detailing, further structural modeling, and coloring in oils.

For the previous MuddyColors post on the drawing and scale reference:

http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/2015/02/slow-and-steady-beren-and-luthien-in.html

The toned drawings below were created while outside the studio.  Hard to pack a 120" wet canvas for travel and to work on while on vacation  :)

Back to work!




Melisandre - A Song of Ice and Fire      11" x 14"

Gandalf on the Bridge of Khazad-dum    11" x 14"  



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Skin Palette for MyPaint V2 by MeryAlisonThompson on DeviantArt [feedly]



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Skin Palette for MyPaint V2 by MeryAlisonThompson on DeviantArt
http://meryalisonthompson.deviantart.com/art/Skin-Palette-for-MyPaint-V2-301868920
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Colour Palettes no.2 by Striped-Tie on DeviantArt [feedly]



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Colour Palettes no.2 by Striped-Tie on DeviantArt
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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Commercial Printing Tips: Understanding Ink Coverage

Interesting Article Titled: Commercial Printing Tips: Understanding Ink Coverage by Universal Printing

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cypulchre:GAHH. This is infuriating. I don’t care much for... [feedly]



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cypulchre:GAHH. This is infuriating. I don't care much for...
// Hyperwave



cypulchre:

GAHH. This is infuriating. I don't care much for awards or the like, but c'mon.

What science fiction film (not limited to North American films, obvi) from the last 50 years would you nominate for Best Picture? 

If they'd adapt more sf novels (especially the award winning ones) for the screen this might be a different story.


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martinlkennedy:Painting by David Hardy ‘Emergency Landing’ from... [feedly]



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martinlkennedy:Painting by David Hardy 'Emergency Landing' from...
// Hyperwave



martinlkennedy:

Painting by David Hardy 'Emergency Landing' from Future magazine Feb 1979


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Starfleet Uniforms by Dave Cockrum (1980)

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Phaidon creative director Julia Hasting on spectacular new book Akademie X [feedly]



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Phaidon creative director Julia Hasting on spectacular new book Akademie X
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A few weeks back, an enormous book the colour of a tube of Love Hearts landed on my desk. It was Akademie X: Lessons in Life an Art. Not often does a book look this succulent: the weight, texture and little details were enough to have the whole editorial team cooing over it. Published by Phaidon, it's a collection of lessons written by artists such a Miranda July, Katharina Grosse, Walead Beshty, Marina Abramovic, Tim Rollins, John Stezaker and many others.

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Charlotte Rutherford's photography reminds us that anything is possible [feedly]



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Charlotte Rutherford's photography reminds us that anything is possible
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Charlotte Rutherford's photography is fun, bright and tinged with humour and 1980s sass. Shooting editorial for the likes of Vice and Tank magazine and look-books for Lazy Oaf and Baby G, the self-taught photographer maintains an aesthetic that is both well-informed and original. She cites David LaChapelle and Pierre et Gilles as major influences on her work, saying that they prove the encouraging dictum "OK cool, you can do like ANYTHING." I couldn't agree more.

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Angular architectural identity from Spanish studio Two Points [feedly]



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Angular architectural identity from Spanish studio Two Points
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I always imagine that rebranding an architectural consultancy must be the dream gig for a design agency. There's so much to work with in terms of structural materials, geometric forms, textures, type and slick photography. Even so it's not every day you see an architectural rebrand executed with the kind of flair with which Two Points has created Aamodt/Plumb's new corporate materials.

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Auguste Herbin (French, 1882-1960)Composition, 1940Monumental... [feedly]



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Auguste Herbin (French, 1882-1960)Composition, 1940Monumental...
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Auguste Herbin (French, 1882-1960)

  • Composition, 1940
  • Monumental Composition, 1919
  • Untitled, 1931

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Auguste Herbin (French, 1882-1960)Composition, 1940Monumental...
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Auguste Herbin (French, 1882-1960)

  • Composition, 1940
  • Monumental Composition, 1919
  • Untitled, 1931

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Phil Hale: Life Wants to Live [feedly]



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Phil Hale: Life Wants to Live
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Award-winning Illustrator and Fine Artist, Phil Hale, has a solo show at Johnathan LeVine Gallery in NYC.

The show is titled 'Life Wants to Live', and thus far, consists of 14 large scale paintings, and 17 drawings. All of which are completely new works.

In conjunction with 'Life Wants to Live', the artist will release a new book by the same title, that will be available to purchase at the opening reception.

The show opens today, February 21, 2015 and runs to March 21, 2015.

Phil Hale : Life Wants to Live
A Solo Exhibition
Johnathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, Gallery I

Below is a sneak peek at some of the new paintings, all of which measure 54x54 inches square, and are painted using oil on linen.











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“Adventure Is Anything that Puts Us Outside our Comfort Zone”: Notes from the Himalayas [feedly]



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"Adventure Is Anything that Puts Us Outside our Comfort Zone": Notes from the Himalayas
// The Art of Non

Adventure photographer Cory Richards almost died in an avalanche while descending from a mountain in Pakistan, but he lived and the experience changed his life.

In this short (and amazing) video, he shares on "the richness that comes through struggle."

 


"I've never been comfortable in the place that I'm in. I can't stop and sit. It's a constant engine that's driving me to the things that are unknown to me."

Cory rsz_discomfort Polar NGS Picture ID:1561957

"When I realized I hadn't died, I turned the camera on myself and took a picture, which ended up on the cover of National Geographic."

Cory-on-Ice

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Images and video by Cory Richards

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Emmanuel Shiu [feedly]



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Emmanuel Shiu, concept art and design
Emmanuel Shiu is a concept artist and designer for the film and gaming industries, whose clients include SOny Pictures, Universal, Disney, Paramount and Warner Brothers, among others.

His images often combine high fantasy, futuristic cityscapes and high-tech environments with a feeling of tactile and sometimes gritty reality. I enjoy the way he can suggest immense scale an detail, while keeping the unity of his forms intact within the composition.

Shiu's website features a sampling of his work from several projects, and his blog features more professional work, along with a number of personal projects. He also has an alternate blog with more professional work and you can find additional galleries on hie ArtStation and deviantART pages.

There is an interview with Shiu on CG Channel.

[Via Concept Art World]


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Heisey's Glassware and Tenggren's history of glass [feedly]



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Heisey's Glassware and Tenggren's history of glass
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In the autumn of 1927 Gustaf Tenggren received a commission for an advertisement, depicting the Fenician's discovering the secret of glass-making. Situated in Newark, Ohio, Heisey's glassware was a well established producer of pressed household glass. From originally producing clear glass, in the mid 1920ies the company started to introduce brightly colored glass. Heisey's was the first glass company to use magazine advertising as an essential marketing tool.
In his income ledger Gustaf Tenggren has noted the steps through the delivery process quite detailed, making it possible to follow the complete order from the intermediating company, J Horace Lytle's Ad Agency in Dayton, Ohio.
December 1927: Original B-W watercolor for the ad "The Fenicians discovering glass". 
The first ad, in B-W only, was published in Saturday Evening Post in December 1927. It seems to have been very well received, as it were followed by four more in full color during 1928 and a final one in early 1929. Each of the following illustrations were executed as oil paintings and paid with $800 each, whereas the first B-W ad was $500.
January 1928: Marietta Beroviero reveals her father's craft secrets of
making colored glass to her lover, thus breaking the monopoly.
The row of paintings form a colorful panorama, illustrating some of the highlights in the history of glass. It gave Tenggren another opportunity to excel in historic clothing and consolidated his reputation as one of the more important commercial artists at the time.
May 1928: A Fenician artisan 2000 years ago amazes the Emperor by blowing glass.
July 1928: The Roman noblewoman receives a rare and precious gift, a glass item.
September, 1928: The officers drinks to the health of the King, James II,
in a yard long glasses made out of the newly discovered flint glass.
January 1929: Petronius, sentenced to death by Nero, lifts a vase
of poisoned drink determined to end his life in gaiety.

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