tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76206423292732864122024-03-15T18:09:37.004-07:00Richard Hescox My Art and Other StuffThis blog is about Art: - My Art, Art I love, Artistic ideas, Insights both Technical and Esthetic and sometimes about Art that I hate.
I will be posting things that I am working on now and things I created long ago that need some comment. I will also be showing the artwork of great artists of the past that you should be aware of but may not have seen.
This blog is for practicing artists and people who love art.
Feel free to add comments.Richard Hescoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866141722703707538noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620642329273286412.post-71860915088363792712012-10-13T08:30:00.000-07:002012-10-13T08:30:43.596-07:00 What I'm up to - Part 3<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sorry for the gap in blogging but I've been Busy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are a few samples of the work I have been doing on the illustrations for George R R Martin's "A Clash of Kings" for the Subterranean Press edition. I have cropped in on them so I don't give everything away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I drew penciled remarques on all the signature pages for the limited lettered edition. Below are a couple of samples of the kind of drawings I did.</span></div>
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<br />Richard Hescoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866141722703707538noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620642329273286412.post-21395751787234606922012-09-01T08:50:00.000-07:002012-09-01T08:52:51.616-07:00J C Leyendecker Rarities - Part 2Here are a few more rare Leyendecker illustrations from my collection.<br />
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This first one, I have never seen reproduced anywhere else. Probably instances of it have not survived because of it's fragility. It is printed on thin tissue paper. Mine only survived because some artist back in the 1920's made a scrap file of illustrators they liked and glued it onto horrible old cardboard.<br />
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One day at a swap meet, many boxes of these collected images from his scrap files showed up and after hours of picking through I was able to purchase many obscure illustrations by several artists I collect.<br />
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This illustration is very odd for Leyendecker, imitating as it does a Japanese Print in style. It has a fold down the middle and staple holes so it was part of a booklet. Probably one of the Kuppenheimer Catalogs?<br />
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This one is the Post cover he painted for the issue dealing with the great San Francisco earthquake. It doesn't often show up in Leyendecker collections because that issue is often grabbed up for collections of the earthquake, and it does not overtly look like a typical Leyendecker image.<br />
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This one was done for an obscure local celebration in St Louis. I always point out that the artist suggests that the Mississippi River is infested with river monsters. (See lower right corner.)Richard Hescoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866141722703707538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620642329273286412.post-85931504530028757152012-08-19T09:26:00.000-07:002012-08-19T09:26:02.462-07:00Sketches and Finished Art - Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As mentioned in an earlier blog, there is much to learn by studying sketches alongside the finished work. The decisions of the artist in refining their concepts become visible and this should lead us to better and/or different thinking as we create our own works.</div>
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<br />Richard Hescoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866141722703707538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620642329273286412.post-60628325903358540682012-08-11T09:32:00.002-07:002012-08-11T09:32:52.433-07:00J C Leyendecker Rarities - part 1From my extensive personal collection of J C Leyendecker illustrations I am sharing some of the odd and often rare bits.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">A rare self portrait in the mirror of JCL at his easel, painting his models.</span></td></tr>
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<br />Richard Hescoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866141722703707538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620642329273286412.post-5895792756645695102012-08-04T08:30:00.000-07:002012-08-04T08:30:01.219-07:0019th Century Dragons - part 2<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are a few more Dragon images that may be new to you to show the variations that imagination took in the 19th century artists</span></span>.<br />
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<br />Richard Hescoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866141722703707538noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620642329273286412.post-31392018300956193902012-08-02T09:26:00.001-07:002012-08-02T19:52:33.292-07:0019th Century Dragons<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<b><span style="font-size: small;">In studying 19th Century Fantasy Art I have noticed, (and made a recurrent theme of these blogs as well as my Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150285936339840.352054.633819839&type=1" style="color: #ffd966;" target="_blank">album</a>) that many developments of the modern world have severely restricted and narrowed the imagination of more recent fantasy artists. In the case of dragons I blame paleontology and the discovery of the "Brontosaurus". (Although scientific naming convention says that that name is no longer correct and it should be called an Apatosaurus, to me it will always be a Brontosaurus as mentioned in the 1933 King Kong.)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Flying figures are a common feature in Fantasy Art. Usually this takes the form of winged people or simply figures floating magically. So while melding over Fantasy images from my Facebook gallery "<a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150285936339840.352054.633819839&type=3" style="color: #ffd966;" target="_blank">Victorian Fantasy Paintings</a>", I thought I would show alternate forms of flying.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">Jose Segrelles paints a much more free form flying carpet.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Last time that I spoke of imaginative
color I stated that the invention of the camera and its widespread use for artistic
reference as well as the effect of living in a world saturated with photography
had severely limited the color imagination of artists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By deferring to the authority of the camera
to capture “Reality”, most post 19<sup>th</sup> century artists allow
themselves to be bound by unnecessary limits on their color imagination.</span></h3>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mJJAuLP-uZw/UBQkdyZR_MI/AAAAAAAAAEk/YnCqoxpa4Qk/s1600/Maignan_-_La_sir%C3%A8ne3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="330" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mJJAuLP-uZw/UBQkdyZR_MI/AAAAAAAAAEk/YnCqoxpa4Qk/s400/Maignan_-_La_sir%C3%A8ne3.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr style="color: #93c47d;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reality versus Imagination. An Underwater photo and "La Sirène" by Albert Maignan</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The invention of color underwater photography,
along with the ease with which people can take up skin diving and can see the
real effects of deep water on light and color, has led to the stultifying of
the imaginative use of color in underwater paintings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because in the real world, light attenuates
as you dive deeper and the color range of that light is constricted more and
more towards the blue green range many artists, in an attempt to achieve
realism, allow their palettes to become constricted as well. Deep sea
photographs always look too much like green tinted black and white photos.</span></h3>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WE4f1vHckF4/UBQlLZegkNI/AAAAAAAAAEs/bBWV3lnfQoo/s1600/Steck-pd01-AAA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WE4f1vHckF4/UBQlLZegkNI/AAAAAAAAAEs/bBWV3lnfQoo/s640/Steck-pd01-AAA.jpg" width="372" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">"Ophilia" by Steck</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aTQfA5BOpzc/UBQlwjPAVrI/AAAAAAAAAE0/YaGx62SnSwY/s1600/Albert-Guillaume_Amour+Profond.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="416" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aTQfA5BOpzc/UBQlwjPAVrI/AAAAAAAAAE0/YaGx62SnSwY/s640/Albert-Guillaume_Amour+Profond.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">Albert Guillaume's "Amour Profond". The color sketch and the finish (B & W photo).</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What many forget is that in the “Fantasy
World” (a real place with its own system of physical rules) color behaves in a
totally unrestrained way in order to heighten the magic of the environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>19<sup>th</sup> century artists were free to
exercise their imagination because “Science” had not intruded to hold them
back.</span></h3>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JPo8UtEmlSM/UBQmwCH2I-I/AAAAAAAAAE8/rAKDdjTCjbs/s1600/Auguste-Leveque-rg01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JPo8UtEmlSM/UBQmwCH2I-I/AAAAAAAAAE8/rAKDdjTCjbs/s1600/Auguste-Leveque-rg01.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">Auguste Leveque obviously allows no constraint on his imagination.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AuY3zaEfp14/UBQnRl-8pCI/AAAAAAAAAFE/rbCTREBEzYA/s1600/Curran_Charles_Courtney_a_Deep_Sea_Fantasy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AuY3zaEfp14/UBQnRl-8pCI/AAAAAAAAAFE/rbCTREBEzYA/s640/Curran_Charles_Courtney_a_Deep_Sea_Fantasy.jpg" width="353" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="color: #93c47d; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Charles Courtney Curran "A Deep Sea Fantasy". </span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-size: small;">Although Curran does skew the colors in the direction of </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">the blues, he still maintains some of the non blue tones to keep the painting from seeming monochrome</span>.</span></span></h3>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mscerhGUENM/UBQqNrjR0uI/AAAAAAAAAFU/MxG9RdX4qoc/s1600/Ilya-Repin+Sadko.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mscerhGUENM/UBQqNrjR0uI/AAAAAAAAAFU/MxG9RdX4qoc/s640/Ilya-Repin+Sadko.jpg" width="449" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">Ilya Repin's "Sadko In The Underwater Kingdom".</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XVTh135rcdQ/UBQrVW9AWPI/AAAAAAAAAFk/mrppk921SAc/s1600/Corination-zz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XVTh135rcdQ/UBQrVW9AWPI/AAAAAAAAAFk/mrppk921SAc/s1600/Corination-zz.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">This is one of my paintings circa 2010. "Coronation"</span> <span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">by Richard Hescox</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Richard Hescoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866141722703707538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620642329273286412.post-55313437000611494812012-07-23T10:12:00.000-07:002012-07-23T10:12:18.694-07:00What I'm Up To<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
I am currently working away on some of the 60+ black and white illustrations I need to create for the Subterranean Press edition of George R R Martin's "A Clash Of Kings". Not only do I have to pick interesting images from the book to draw up, but I have to make sure that they are evenly spread throughout the volume.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">This is a working sketch for a pen drawing.</span></td></tr>
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Additionally I feel an internal pressure to try to show images of people and occurrences that are important to the story, although there are many vague references to less important details that suggest very interesting drawings! In looking at great illustrated books by Golden Age illustrator I am struck by their choices of subjects to depict. Not always the most dramatic scene as we were taught to pick when doing paperback book covers. My favorite quote from N C Wyeth addresses this. Andrew Wyeth quoting his father: </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">" I never paint a subject, an illustration from a story
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">A sketch for an illustration of Samwell.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qbdf_8hQotY/UA2DukrjBaI/AAAAAAAAAEY/G85MPziSqAc/s1600/Ghost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qbdf_8hQotY/UA2DukrjBaI/AAAAAAAAAEY/G85MPziSqAc/s400/Ghost.jpg" width="326" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">The Direwolf "Ghost"</span></td></tr>
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<br /></div>Richard Hescoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866141722703707538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620642329273286412.post-4021672648914980322012-07-21T09:05:00.000-07:002012-07-21T09:05:53.919-07:00Sketches and Finished Art<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love comparing sketches</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">finished work. Aside from being able to gain insights into the working procedures of various artists, the more important reason is to see their thought process in pushing the picture forward. To see what they learned from doing the sketch, and needed to correct in the final painting. This could be a repositioned arm or a major change to the pose. An adjustment of the value composition or adding completely new elements.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vvLNfH8dxgM/UArO1rihd1I/AAAAAAAAADc/O1mCnaErLSg/s1600/1-Cabanel-Pantheon-Palestine-detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="365" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vvLNfH8dxgM/UArO1rihd1I/AAAAAAAAADc/O1mCnaErLSg/s400/1-Cabanel-Pantheon-Palestine-detail.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">A Detail of a Mural by Alexander Cabanel</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> When you see a difference between the sketch and finish you should try to reconstruct the artist thoughts and reasons for the change. Always assume he had a good reason.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">Campaspe by John William Godward</span></td></tr>
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darker values. The darkening behind the legs at the bottom helps the
"rise" of the figures. However this darkening required Bouguereau to
redesign the silhouette of the white drapery to flow behind the mans
foot to make it read easier and disengage it from the background thereby
adding to the feeling of floating. Additionally it creates an alignment
of leg, foot and cloth edge that echos and reinforces the lines of the
woman's legs pointing diagonally down to the lower corner and again
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">A sketch drawing for Herbert Draper's "Flying Fish"</span></td></tr>
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<br />Richard Hescoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866141722703707538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620642329273286412.post-13892013976211049982012-07-18T20:10:00.000-07:002012-07-18T20:11:44.919-07:00Imaginative color in 19th century fantasy art - Part 1<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t7RMjEcFsbI/UAd1qzB8SfI/AAAAAAAAACw/eai5Tbx14gw/s1600/Knupfer-aa01.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t7RMjEcFsbI/UAd1qzB8SfI/AAAAAAAAACw/eai5Tbx14gw/s400/Knupfer-aa01.jpeg" width="315" /></a></td></tr>
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Knupfer who has pushed the colors in a lyrical direction.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="hascaption">Before color photography began
limiting the imagination of artist by “dumbing down” the color range that they
were used to seeing (remember that the photographic process compresses the millions
of color shades of nature into a mechanically limited few thousand) fantasy
artists felt free to stretch the colors in their paintings in lyrical and
dramatic directions, though always taking care to maintain a naturalistic
proportional relationship among the colors.</span></div>
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Maximilian Pirner who has made some unexpected color choices</span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="hascaption">This made sure that even as the colors were exaggerated
the image still gave the impression of being a believably real representation.
When these proportional relationships between colors and values are lost the
image begins to look cartoony and the main goal of good fantasy art: “To make
the unreal seem real” is lost as well.</span></div>
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<tr style="color: #93c47d;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="hascaption">"Pharaoh's Army Engulfed By The Red Sea" by Frederick Arthur Bridgman.</span><span class="hascaption"></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="color: #93c47d; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gaston Bussiere's painting of "The Rhine Maidens"</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">Another Bussiere painting of sirens. He always paints with highly saturated colors.</span></td></tr>
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<b>This is a continuation and expansion of the “Victorian
Fantasy Painting” album that I have been posting on Facebook. Along with new posts here, I plan to meld
over the images and insights from that gallery so that all the images can be
found and appreciated in one location.</b></div>
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<b>My primary goal in creating these posts is to
re-introduce many forgotten fantasy paintings and artists to modern day followers
of that genre, whether practicing artists themselves or fans of fantasy art. The great defect with most art history books
is that they continually reprint the same “Important” paintings over and over
again while ignoring the wider world of the entire movement. As a result, most contemporary artists have a
very limited view of the thought processes practiced back then in the act of
creativity. The world of fantasy art
today is bound by unnecessary habits and restrictions that leave the genre all
the poorer.</b></div>
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<tr style="color: #93c47d;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The Cloud" by Arthur Hacker</span></td></tr>
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<b>The nude form has long been a staple of almost all
art. In fantasy art it has a rich place
because of the various conceptual uses it can be applied to. My favorite is “Allegory” in which the human
form is used to symbolize an abstract concept or condition, or an aspect of
nature. Arthur Hacker uses it beautifully
in “The Cloud”. The human form enhances
the connection of the viewer and therefore the emotional communication.</b></div>
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philosophical statement about such concepts as the danger of the female of the
species. Symbolist art of this period is
rife with allusions to death and decadence in relation to the “Femme Fatale”</b></div>
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from mythology. In fact this genre was
popular because it provided an excuse (for those who needed one) to paint a
beautiful nude.</b></div>
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<br /></div>Richard Hescoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866141722703707538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620642329273286412.post-11979988118995290252012-07-12T11:45:00.000-07:002012-07-15T07:47:43.237-07:00Using CostumesOver the years I have made extensive use of costumes in my illustration work. The better the costume, the more help it is in creating a good illustration. Sometimes I have raided the thrift stores and resorted to re cutting and resewing my own creations. But while I lived near Hollywood and did work for film advertising, I was able to make use of a great resource: Western Costume. That warehouse contained many thousands of beautiful costumes created for and rented to motion picture production companies.<br />
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In a single large room dedicated solely to medieval male tunics I would paw through hundreds on triple story racks to find just the one I wanted for a book cover. Not cheap to rent, but worth it.<br />
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Below is a picture of one I chose which is being worn by "Rocketeer" artist and pal Dave Stevens for a book cover illustration.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: small;">The same tunic in the 1980's and 40 years earlier.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Some years later while watching Errol Flynn's "The Adventures of Robin Hood" I realized that from the myriad of tunics I had picked one from that film. They kept them in good repair through the decades</span>.</span></span><br />
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</span></span>Richard Hescoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866141722703707538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620642329273286412.post-56834442776050876102012-07-10T16:09:00.000-07:002012-08-02T11:16:55.343-07:00What I'm up to<br />
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<span lang="EN">For my first post I thought I would tell you about my current project.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">I am working with George R R Martin and </span>Subterranean Press<span lang="EN"> on the massively
illustrated, limited edition of “A Clash of Kings” book two of George’s “A Song
of Ice and Fire” series. This will contain (when I finish!!) around 70 black
and white illustrations of various sizes and formats and 6 full color images
including two wrap around covers.</span></div>
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<tr style="color: #93c47d;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is a shot of the first cover painting in progress.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="color: #93c47d;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And the second cover painting.</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN">Working with George (when I can tear time away from his hectic schedule) is
stimulating and challenging. Like any proud father he is very protective of his
creations and especially their appearance. Some of my sketches have hit the
mark right away while others have needed numerous sketches to work out. </span></div>
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<tr style="color: #93c47d;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A drawing of Catelyn that George liked right off.</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN">George is quite forthcoming with information from his fertile brain about
what things should look like, and this sometimes includes details that he has
thought of, but never actually written down in his books. (More on that in a
future post). That is what makes the work so fascinating. I get the chance to
learn things that others don’t know yet, until I illustrate them or George
writes them down.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">As the project develops check in here for more comments and images of the
work in progress.</span></div>Richard Hescoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866141722703707538noreply@blogger.com1