Title: If Only You Were Here
Style: Art Deco, Anime-esque, Linear
Style: Art Deco, Anime-esque, Linear
I had to put Audrey Kawasaki up this year, too, because she is my all time favorite artist. She uses wood panel for almost all of her pieces, has strong lines around her subjects, and almost always draws females. I like the Audrey's use of space. She leaves a lot empty, especially in her doodles in her sketchbook. I also like the subtle value change on her figures. It inspires me to learn how to use oil paints and spend more time paying attention to detail in my art. I admire her combination of a very linear, design-like quality of her figures with the medium she uses (oils, acrylics, and graphite). Her figures also have a mysterious feeling to them.
Title: Haunted 11
Style: A mix of comic art and Romantic styled art. I'm pretty sure all that the type of drawings for the comic-magazine Fables is one style (since this is similar to James Jeans stuff, and he did some covers for Fables)
I like Joao's use of detail and realism, with a modern and comic twist. His view's of certain objects, like the scarf and jacket in this piece, have a romantic (almost like marble sculpture type of look, except on paper) and overly detailed look to them that draws me to his work. But, since he does do art for Fables, a lot of his work involves certain concepts or fantasy. His perception of value and shadow are beautiful.
#3: Amy Sol
Title: Dream of a Distant Cousin
Style: Comic and Surrealism
What draws me to Amy's work is her incorporation of the grain in the wood into her her. She does all of her acrylic and oil paintings on wood panel, and all of her watercolors on paper. All of her work has a surreal quality to it, whether it be flying whales and seals or animals running a street vendor paired with a female human. Her style is very storybook. The situations she puts her characters in also create a sense of story that makes the viewer want to ask more questions, or make up their own story to the scenario. I also like the immenseness this piece exudes.
#4: Eric Fortune
Title: A Want To Believe
Style: Surrealist
What I appreciate most about Eric's work is the surrealism. All of his pieces have a surreal quality to them. Something else that is consistent with all of his work is the realistic value paired with a little bit of his own personal style shown in the
human figure. His figures also have the marble-statue like value to them like with Joao (#2). I like his style of illustration. Especially in this piece.
The value and posture of the hands are amazing. I also like the vacant look in the subject's eyes.
#5: Antony Micallef
Title: Head
Style: Painter/conceptual
I like Antony's loose brush strokes on all of his pieces. He doesn't get too tight on the details, and appears to use a large brush. A majority of his pieces are also black and white. Antony did a study of heads that were all loose and abstract, like this one. They almost looked like heads from dead bodies, shrunken heads, or zombies. Parts of the head, usually the eye area, would be left with little detail and other areas would have more detail. It reminded me of mummies. The brush strokes have a lot of emotion in them, which I think is important if you are going to make art like his. Sometimes how you paint something instead of what you paint can convey a deeper emotional message.
Style: A mix of comic art and Romantic styled art. I'm pretty sure all that the type of drawings for the comic-magazine Fables is one style (since this is similar to James Jeans stuff, and he did some covers for Fables)
I like Joao's use of detail and realism, with a modern and comic twist. His view's of certain objects, like the scarf and jacket in this piece, have a romantic (almost like marble sculpture type of look, except on paper) and overly detailed look to them that draws me to his work. But, since he does do art for Fables, a lot of his work involves certain concepts or fantasy. His perception of value and shadow are beautiful.
#3: Amy Sol
Title: Dream of a Distant Cousin
Style: Comic and Surrealism
What draws me to Amy's work is her incorporation of the grain in the wood into her her. She does all of her acrylic and oil paintings on wood panel, and all of her watercolors on paper. All of her work has a surreal quality to it, whether it be flying whales and seals or animals running a street vendor paired with a female human. Her style is very storybook. The situations she puts her characters in also create a sense of story that makes the viewer want to ask more questions, or make up their own story to the scenario. I also like the immenseness this piece exudes.
#4: Eric Fortune
Title: A Want To Believe
Style: Surrealist
What I appreciate most about Eric's work is the surrealism. All of his pieces have a surreal quality to them. Something else that is consistent with all of his work is the realistic value paired with a little bit of his own personal style shown in the
human figure. His figures also have the marble-statue like value to them like with Joao (#2). I like his style of illustration. Especially in this piece.
The value and posture of the hands are amazing. I also like the vacant look in the subject's eyes.
#5: Antony Micallef
Title: Head
Style: Painter/conceptual
I like Antony's loose brush strokes on all of his pieces. He doesn't get too tight on the details, and appears to use a large brush. A majority of his pieces are also black and white. Antony did a study of heads that were all loose and abstract, like this one. They almost looked like heads from dead bodies, shrunken heads, or zombies. Parts of the head, usually the eye area, would be left with little detail and other areas would have more detail. It reminded me of mummies. The brush strokes have a lot of emotion in them, which I think is important if you are going to make art like his. Sometimes how you paint something instead of what you paint can convey a deeper emotional message.
