Posts Tagged ‘disney’

Artist of the moment………John Alvin

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John Alvin was a painter who loved movies and spent his career making wonderful movie posters and character design for companies including Disney. John Alvin was born Hyannis, Massachusetts in the year 1948.

The artist grew up around the world as his parents were in the military, but the family settled in California. Alvin attended the Art Center College of Design located in Los Angeles, California.

Alvin’s posters were admired by people in and out of the industry because his posters provided inspiration to the viewer that a great movie was waiting to be seen.

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John Alvin passed away in 20008 at the age of 59.

 

In this clip a great interview with John Alvin talking about inspiration and his growth as an artist. His first major poster was the great spaghetti western “Blazing Saddles.”

Another of the artist’s best work were his posters for the movie E.T.

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Artist of the moment…….Brittney Lee

{ September 25, 2014 @ 11:12 am } · { Uncategorized }
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Brittney Lee is a wonderful artist working with paint and also collage. Brittney Lee has worked for the animation giant Pixar and is renown for her wonderful character development skills. Lee attended the Rochester Institute of Technology where she studied animation and film.

She has worked as a free lancer and designer for other companies including the Leapfrog children’s education company.

Lee worked on Disney’s hit “Frozen.” She also has created books to go along with the movie.

In this clip we view an original work that is a made of paint and paper collage. Its great to see the piece dimensionality through a camera lens from different angles rather than just a straight one time image:

As a cut paper enthusiast this is one of my favorite clips that is just as exciting as watching Matisse work on a papercut. Here we view Brittney Lee in action as she cuts a wonderful piece of art:

Price range information: Works range from $12 and up for prints on the http://www.Etsy.com website for Brittney Lee. Gallery originals such as the work shown the clip, Pretty in Pink, a work done with paint and collage, cost $500.

What an outstanding artist and style!

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Artist of the moment………Lorelay Bove

{ September 19, 2014 @ 11:36 am } · { Uncategorized }
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Lorelay Bove is a wonderful artist and illustrator who has worked with Disney and Pixar animation studios. Bove was born in Spain. Bove attended the famed California Art Institute and then worked for Pixar and Disney studios.

Bove had a great hint at how to improve your illustrations. Take a great work like Alice in Wonderland, and create your own scene. Bove also loves to paint whilst traveling. Her works in this style remind me a great deal of American travel poster artist David Klein, already profiled here.

Price range information: Prints range from $100 to $500. No pricing on originals.

The artist was in charge of developing important sequences in the modern comic movie titled “Wreck it Ralph.” This was a great and successful movie about a video game character coming to life. In this clip Bove talks about this work:

 

As a huge fan of former Disney artist Mary Blair, I found Bove’s work to be similar in creativity and childlike freedom.

Below another great interview which also shows some artwork at various stages of development:

Below a link to the blog of Lorelay Bove. Very up to date and unique perspectives animation:

http://lorelaybove.blogspot.com/

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Artist of the moment….Luc Tuymans

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Luc Tuymans is a wonderful contemporary artist born in Mortsel, Belgium  in the year 1958. Tuymans makes references to international events that have been on the news and in the papers. He works with oils on canvas with references to photographs.

As for paint quality and color, his work is very dull and greyed out, it reminds me of the way watercolor sometimes looks brilliant when fresh, then the paint dries and sometimes the color goes away.

For his collegiate education Tuymans attended the National School for the Visual Arts in Brussels and the Koninkliijke Academy in Antwerp. He was studying the fine arts at these colleges that switched his major to art history finishing up at Vriije University in Brussels.

price range information: The artist has broken the one million dollar mark at auction with a the sale of Mwana Kitoka for $1.4 million. Below is this painting:

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His wife is an artist from Venezuela named Carla Arocha. Below an example of her work, she works mainly in acrylics as in this example:

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In this clip from the Tate Shots series we visit the artist in his hometown of Antwerp, Belgium:

In this clip we visit a gallery show from 2008 with the great James Kalm:

Here with the great James Kalm we visit a show featuring Luc Tuymans that took place in 2013:

Tuymans has also acted as a curator.

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