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November 6, 2009 8:59 PM
MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES from C. Coy on Vimeo.
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MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES from C. Coy on Vimeo.
Comments (0) - Link to this postOne of the things I knew I wanted to do right away, was to arrange some video chat interviews with illustrators in their studios. Our own Stuart Kolakovic was my first willing guinea pig, and agreed to be interviewed over Skype.
I was able to record the audio of the interview on my iPhone, but I do apologize for the crummy quality. I cleaned it up some, so it's decent enough to hear everything. Please ignore my honking guffaws, which are way too loud. I pledge to use higher production quality next time.
Thanks for helping me out Stu!
...for an album column about alternative country/americana music, featuring the likes of Radar Brothers, Puerto Muerto, Murder By Death, Mark Pickerel And His Praying Hands. You can tell by the amount of "panels" I've been drawing recently that I'm pretty keen to start on my comic...
A double page spread for El Bosque magazine. Some of you might notice I've drawn this instrument being played before, a "Gusle". Except this time I've tried to show what the musician is actually singing about. This image is for a themed "Forests, plants and flowers" issue.
The past couple of weeks have been a drag, doing real bland corporate illustration work. To keep myself from going insane I've tried to find enough time to sketch some of the other ideas that have been bouncing round my head for my new graphic novel, which I should hopefully be starting in the next fortnight. Hopefully.
You can learn more about my comic plans at an online interview with comics Brainiac, Matt Badham here.
Illustrating an All Girls Skateboard Competition at a skatepark in Manchester presented itself as welcoming break from the other heavily art directed illustration I've been doing, and was fun to do. It finally gave me the chance to play around with some hand rendered type and to indulge in some 50's/60's surf style graphics. The hardest part was trying to come up something that wasn't sexist, or even just plain girly. I dared myself to use pink, is that p.c. these days?
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This is an image for Hong Kong's "The 1&Only Magazine"- the Love Addicts Issue.
The image is available as a handsome wee baby framed 4"x7" print, a limited edition of ten, from my online shop for only $9. The mini comics I have featured on Invisibleman are also available-
"A Gosling" -16 page A6 size full colour comic,laser printed onto Heritage White 200 gsm paper, machine stitched with a 260 gsm dust jacket. $4
"Ja Ljubav Te"- 42 page full colour wee tiny mini micro comic, machine stitched and laser printed onto Five Seasons (100% recycled) paper. $2
Cheap as chips.
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If you didn't figure it out already, a disproportionate share of the Invisibleman crew met each other at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, back in the early 90's. In my last year in the illustration program, I was lucky enough to land in Roger DeMuth's class, which set me on the course I am now traveling.
Roger is a man who has abundant shares of talent, craft and shrewd promotional savvy. These of course are the skills a freelance illustrator needs to be successful, and they have served Roger well.
This summer my wife and I dropped in for a visit at Roger's house in Cazenovia, NY where you'll find his enviable art-filled studio attached to a beautiful home nestled in a lush garden of his own design.
Roger binds his own miniature sketchbooks (painted with equally small watercolor sets, usually using a bottle cap with a little orange juice as the medium). He also builds precision custom drawing travel kits that tuck away all the required implements for drawing in a handsome case, replete with handsome stamped leather detailing. Tucked into shelves you'll see hilariously cheap chinese novelty toys, frog popup books (lots of frogs), a sizeable stash of antique pen nibs collected from ebay, and dozens of clever mockups for toys and such delights as the Kitty Condom.
Read on to see a slideshow of our visit.
Continue reading "Roger DeMuth"
The baiji, a freshwater dolphin known as the "goddess of the Yangtze" is extinct, scientists said this week. The latest search of the river produced no sightings of the species, which lived in the Yangtze for 20 million years. The demise is blamed on overfishing, and the construction of the Three Rivers Dam, the largest hydroelectric river dam in the world, and 5 times the size of the Hoover.
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These bears seem to be the poster animals for a warming climate. These big critters can swim 200 miles in a day if they've strayed too far from the mainland. Graceful and resilient, they are the biggest of what scientists call a determinate species, that is, other life forms that could determine our future. Generally frogs, birds and plants are in this catagory.
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The painter Kerry suggested I post the entire animal series for your viewing pleasure.
The leading cause of vertebrate declines is human destruction of old growth forests, wetlands, chaparral, and other rich habitats. Worldwide, over two-thirds of the earth's habitable land surface has been significantly disturbed by human activities. Nearly half of the world's 233 primate species are threatened, largely because of their dependence on large expanses of tropical forest, a habitat under siege around the globe. In hotspots of forest loss, such as Madagascar, the Atlantic rainforest of eastern Brazil, and Southeast Asia, roughly 70 percent of primate species face extinction.
many of these bears will be gone in our lifetime. With the threat of oil and warming the planet holds fewer places for big mammals. Most Americans don't realize that we're in a period of mass extinction.
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I recently finished a series of northern animal paintings, all for Christmas presents.
Each are about 12"x16" oil on board. People always say that it's hard to make homemade gifts, and it is, I struggle alot with painting myself. But with persistance and a simple idea they are extraordinary and often more memorable.
The kind folks at Risen Magazine came across my work, and were nice enough to interview me about my work a few months ago for their November / December Issue. You can check out a PDF of the interview and spread below.
LINK: Jon Keegan Interview in Risen Magazine (PDF 1.2mb)
You can see more of my work at jonkeegan.com.
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This is an autumn creek in Pennsylvania.
Nuclear power seems to be spreading. This painting was hard to complete. I'll probably destroy it for my own well being.
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This is a painting from an ongoing suburbia series. This is an earlier one. Lately I've been interested in entertainment, like trampolines, playgrounds or swimming pools.
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This painting is from a suburbia series. They're bushes with snow on a "front yard" next to the driveway of a house in Pittsburgh. The house is up there, but not in the picture. To me, these manicured shrubs are a wonderful example of how each person has their own way of bringing a little nature into their lives.
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I had a nice art-filled weekend, despite the torrential rains. I logged some serious time welded to my drafting table just playing around with some different materials that I don't often work with in my normal course of business. Really felt a nice loose freedom with a super-fat graphite pencil on vellum, which produced the above image, among many, many others...
Also, I saw some amazing art...
Continue reading "Piercing Gaze / Art Highlights"
Last weekend my three older brothers, Stephen, Phil, James and I gathered at a cabin near the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania (I know, you've never heard of the place). It's a beautiful, mountainous region where we fished, hiked and drew pictures. Before grilling up some tasty shish-ka-bobs we sat on the porch and each brother spent 4 minutes working on a drawing. After 4 minutes we'd pass around the art until everyone had worked on it. Its's always a fun and fascinating experience doing art lodges and you can see some of our results above.
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This is an oil painting inspired from an advertisement. I was inspired by the complexity of chrome reflections and the humor in the sounds of those horns.
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With the help of Photoshop, I've been transforming some photos and doing paintings of them. This one is 24"x 36".
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I've been looking for abstract images to paint or draw and lately I've focused on explosions. As awful as they are, explosions are as common as haircuts. I've been trying to capture the physiology of an explosion and embrace it as a fact of this living.
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My wife Julie Kirkpatrick is having her first solo show at Black Dragon Society on Chung King Road in Los Angeles. The show opens Saturday April 15th and runs through May 20th.
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here is an invitation to my thesis exhibition. if anyone is in philadelphia between april 21 and may 1, be sure to spread the word and stop in! it should be an interesting show.
the university of the arts, mfa book arts + printmaking, thesis exhibitions
chapter1: April 21 - May 1 and chapter 2: May 5 - May 14
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, 333 S. Broad Street , Philadelphia, PA 19102
Gallery Hours: m-f: 10 am - 5 pm / w: 10 am - 8 pm / weekend: 12 pm - 5 pm
The MFA Book Arts/Printmaking Program offers advanced study in studio arts, focusing on the book as a vehicle of artistic expression and printmaking in the context of the narrative. Students explore the book as an art form that incorporates two-dimensional as well as three-dimensional structure, time and sequence, text and image.
to see the group invitiation/card, click the image below.
the 2 inch show is finally up and online. i hope these books will inspire you as they have me. i have been given many compliments on the show. thanks to everyone (over 50 people!) who participated.
see all the books/prints here and here are a few pictures of the books on display at the university of the arts
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call for art and aritists!
with my love for all things small - i am curating a 2 inch (or smaller) book + printmaking exhibition.
please please submit some mini books or prints! i am looking for a range of work and am excited to see what posting this here will bring. i know the time frame is short, but after all, 2 inches is quite small...
here are a few sites for inspiration:
the miniature book society
art on paper - a great magazine
fun comix 'n books
here's how to make a really simple book. it's one of my favorite ways!
small books exchange
philobiblon - the book arts web
happy new year and happy book and printmaking! :)
email zuckee@mac.com for more information or with any questions.
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this one is for a brighter war.
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Tropical Sea Flowers, 2005. collage (screenprint, fabric, acrylic on paper), 17x22"
The sassy ladies over at rose-coloredglasses.com have posted the first of their "Artists interviewing Artists" series of articles. Julie Kirkpatrick (full disclosure: my invisiblewoman) interviews fellow Brooklyn artist Melissa Barrett Lundquist about her work (shown above), which will be shown at the AAF Contemporary Art Fair in New York City this weekend (October 27-30).
LINK: Interview with Melissa Barrett Lundquist
Comments (0) - Link to this post To prevent voluminous grinding-great for married people. Took the image from an ad you've probably seen. Mouths are just as alive as the eyes.
Early November: North Greenland - Rockwell Kent 1933
Just got back from a breathtakingly beautiful vacation up in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. One of the suprise highlights was a quick stop in at the beautiful Portland Museum of Art, where I was delighted to find a huge Rockwell Kent exhibit. I don't know if it was all the salt in the water that I swam in or too many lobster rolls, but this show just floored me.
The first images that come to my mind when I hear Kent's name are the amazing black and white ink drawings of Moby Dick. I had always kept him firmly in the camp of the great American pen and ink illustrators of the early 20th century. This show completely enlarged my view of his work, and of his amazing life. This fellow was a grade-A swashbuckler, travelling to the world's most spectacularly desolate and awe-inspiring places, and surviving any shipwrecks that nature threw his way (at least one that I am aware of).
His glowing landscpaes of Monhegan Maine, Tierra del Fuego, Greenland and Alaska are meant to remove the viewer's self-consciousness, and just revel in the marvel of the scene. He was quite a modernist as well, producing playfully cartoonish shapes, yet preserving their deep cobalt blue glow and blindingly bright snowfields.
I'm looking forward to reading his wild tales of adventure as he sails to Tierra del Fuego in his book Voyaging. If you happen to be up in the area near Portland, ME be sure to check this show out. It runs until October 16th.
Amazon: Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern
Amazon: Voyaging
Link: Portland Museum of Art
This is a must see show: Barry McGee at Deitch in SoHo (18 Wooster St. btw Grand and Canal). It's running from now until August 13th. Graffitti, illustration, kinetic sculpture, sketches, video, wallpaper patterns, entire upended vans stacked on each other. Go. Across the street is one of the best tagged buildings in New York, certainly in SoHo. So you can get a double dose of street art. Why are you reading this and not on your way already.
The master we learned from at Syracuse. Roger has made available some PDFs of his inspiring sketchbook pages: Carnival at Night and Sketchbook. He just fills them up. Check out all of his site: http://www.demuthdesign.com/
I seem to remember coming across this on the web years ago, but there is a movement to preserve the out of print drawing instruction books created by illustrator Andrew loomis. This website has the entirety of several of his books scanned in for your browsing. Some very good core-drawing skills, ala How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way.
Man. I have been a HUGE fan of Craig Mullins' artwork since I first played Marathon, the classic FPS on my Mac back in college. He did all of the most influential cocnept art for Bungie's games. His website is a must-see, loaded with his amazing digital paintings. I haven't seen a whole lot of illustrators' tutorials around recently, which I think is a shame, since they are so valuable. I found a few tutorials Craig Mullins did on the web, and they are fascinating:
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/7731
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/7840
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/974
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/7863
I've been seriously out of touch with the comics world over the past decade or so, and every once and a while I'll stop in a comics shop to see what's going on in the painted graphic novel world that Kent Williams / Jon J. Muth / Sienkiewicz et al helped make huge. Ashley Wood seems to be the current rockstar of late, and there's a lot that I really, really dig on his site. Would love to see more about his process. Looks like a very cool intersection of handmade work with nice digital touches...
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| 12/07 Woodpile |
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| 08/26 Goddess Goes Extinct |
| 07/12 Glitter Explosion |
| 06/22 Playground |
| 04/12 Blue Explosion |
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