by Henk ter Heide on Friday May 9, 2008
Describing the art work of Stephen Magsig (painting), Michael Pieczonka (painting) and Rod Buckle (drawing and painting).
Searching the Web for artsites I come across a fair amount of daily painters. Usually they are people with good paintings skills but not that much imagination. Almost all of them paint still lives of apple and pears.
But not the site Postcards from Detroit from Stephen Magsig.
Stephen lives and works in Detroit and fills his site with painted highlights of this city.
Although painted with oil his painting look almost as though they were drawn. With an eye for detail.
City Reflections by Stephen Magsig
Michael Pieczonka also paints with oil. His subject are both buildings and ships. His painting feel as the traditional oil paintings. Much attention for color and less for shape.
Rod Buckle draws and paints with ink and watercolor. His subject matter is diverse. Buildings, nature, old air planes and a few paintings of people at work.
Some of his drawings are sketches. Others are very nice watercolor paintings. Some with a great eye for detail, some with a lot of attention for color.
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by Henk ter Heide on Wednesday May 7, 2008
Describing the art work of Stephen Whatley and David T. Wenzel.
I have several tools to find art work on the Internet. One of them is simply using my Google reader to look at pictures from Flickr. This if by far the easiest method and so I feel that it should yield the most interesting sets of pictures.
But sadly every body on Flickr is an artist. Which means that I have to scour through hundreds of pictures to find something interesting.
This set of more then 200 paintings by Stephen Whatley is certainly one of the more interesting.
Looking at his paintings it’s clear the Whatley finds color much more importaint then shape. His paintings of people, buildings and flowers are drawn in just enough to show you what he’s showing. Using a lot of yellows and reds and other colors he tells the rest of the story.
If you want to learn more about this artist visit him at his website
My heart by Stephen Whatley
Mountain of man by Stephen Whatley
Following the link to the website of David T. Wenzel you’ll find dwarf pulling a rope. At the other end of this rope hangs a T swaying in the wind. Clicking “enter” you’ll get to a very complicated contraption with a few menu options below it.
Move you mouse about the menu and see what happens.
The “portfolio” and “currently brewing” options will give you several very nice fairytale like drawings and illustrations.
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by Henk ter Heide on Monday April 16, 2007
Stephen Wiltshir is a autistic savant. He flies one time over the inner city of Rome and from that he can draw a detailed picture of the town.
People look at him in awe and wonder how it is possible that he remembers so much detail. I’ve wondered how he could remember so much detail. I’ve been taught that you start out with the big picture and go back to fill in the details. But now I’m trying it I’m finding that is not the way my memory works.
Working on a excavator
I don’t remember the big picture. I only have a lot of detail.
The clever thing in what Stephen Wiltshire does is not that he remembers all the detail but that he remembers so much detail that they over lap. Mine don’t. When I try to draw something I remember a lot of detail but I don’t remember enough of the big picture to draw it.
When I look at his picture of the Tokyo skyline I wonder whether I should be jealous of his drawing skills. But I don’t actually think he is drawing. I think he is tracing the picture he sees in his mind.
At the moment I’m kind of at a loss as to how to proceed. When I started drawing a few month ago I expected that I would learn how to make my drawing look like pictures. But after a while I learned that that wasn’t possible. Then I thought that my pictures would look something like those of Stephen Wiltshire. Not with the same amount of detail but something in the general direction.
At this point it seems that I have to make a choise: Either I try to draw object like they are and walk back and forth as often as it needs to get a clear picture in my mind. Or I draw detail of an object and find a way of convey to my audience what it is supposed to be. Either by the way I name it or maybe with a little story.
The question I ask myselve is whether those two methodes are actually excluding each other. Couldn’t I find a way to do both?
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