Eliseu D’Angelo Visconti (1866-1944) - Italo-Portuguese painter.
This piece in particular feels very graphic and punchy and modern. The brush work reminds me of contemporary illustrator Edward Kinsella, but with less stylization of the figure.
A cut from the upcoming feature animated adaptation of the Ernest et Célestine books. The film, which premieres at Cannes this week, tells the story of a big bear who wants to become an artist and a little mouse who doesn’t want to become a dentist.
The crazy thing is that it’s entirely animated in Flash.
Snappy illustration from Scott Carmichael (check out his tumblr here).
The first piece is a knockout, and prints are available in a variety of sizes here! I’m also loving the touch of Leyendecker in that bottom John Duff piece.
A sketch from yesterday, and an in-progress shot of a new follow-up painting with the same dudes.
Between the perspective, the tangled limbs, and the water, there’s a lot to figure out, and it’s tough getting great reference, but I’m having fun with it. Not looking forward to the spots, though… These big cats will be the death of my hand.
In-progress shot of a book cover for a friend’s novel. I’m hoping to finish it up tomorrow…
The font is Atreyu, designed by Greg Eckler.
On art crushes and their art crushes.
A friend (and art crush) recently posted some of Bilibin’s work, which made me think of James Jean’s nod to the Russian Art Nouveau star’s red rider on his cover for issue #37 of Fables. It’s always fun seeing these themes and visual elements cropping up in the work of different artists, or across different periods, and it’s a healthy reminder that we’re all making art in part out of starstruck admiration for those who have come before us — that’s as true for your idols and their idols as for you and the people who look up to your work.
Kind of fun to think of art as a continual collaboration.
Manalon appreciation week continues! Apparently.
In the interest of trying something outside my usual comfort zone, figure-wise, I borrowed Badalon here, doing that pose that dudes with that body type do. No points for originality, but it makes a fine subject for playing with a few technical painting issues I’m trying to work through these days. Hopefully finish it up soon.
Another quickie, this time of manalon’s iguana, Lenny. I think everything he owns is argyle.
I’d like to do something more with the character if I can get the time. Not only is he adorable, and a bit different than the things I usually paint, but Mr. ‘Lon is a super prolific inspiration factory. He also seems like a really nice guy — way to reinforce ethnic stereotypes about the Swedish, dude. Jeez.
Thanks to a lot of not planning, the piece I’d been working on drifted further and further off character, so I think I’ll probably repurpose it into something else.
Meanwhile, here’s a cheezy Booga pinup that’s at least a bit more on-model. May still tweak it a bit, but a big part of trying to channel Ashley Wood is learning to leave it loose.
Happy birthday, AD.
So I’d promised myself this would stay an art blog for gathering inspiration and my own works-in-progress rather than devolving into a repository for animated gifs and other net flotsam (netsam?), but I just finished watching the French film L’Homme de Sa Vie and kind of needed to share this moment with actor Eric Prat. Ah, well. I suppose it can be filed under “inspiration.”
Or under “things I would hit so hard.” Wow.