nessbily: May 2011

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Dean Cornwell

Dean Cornwell (March 5, 1892 - December 4, 1960) was an American illustrator and muralist. His oil paintings were frequently featured in popular magazines and books as literary illustrations, advertisements, and posters promoting the war effort. Throughout the first half of the 20th century he was a dominant presence in American illustration. At the peak of his popularity he was nicknamed the "Dean of Illustrators".

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Polyvore to paperdoll

Would you like your Polyvore set made into a paperdoll?

This is my version of Kristen Stewart and the set in Polyvore that stood as sample.

The paperdoll is about 25 cm high (10 inches) and fits in A4 (American Letter) plastic pockets for safekeeping

This is my own Steampunk paperdoll, with an outfit made after my Polyvore set "Be A Woman"

As you can see, this doll isn't modeled after any existing woman. She is kind of my Steampunk alter ego ;-)

Now - if you would want one - or more - of your own, how much would you be prepared to pay for it?
Next question: would you like the gouache original or a print on glossier and stiffer paper?
Any other questions?

P.S: I will own the copyright, even if your paperdoll would be of a character from a book or movie, or a celebrity.Anyone may draw anything or anyone without permission, and as you can see of the Kristen Stewart doll, I won't be able to copy something perfectly. I won't be selling it as "Twilight doll", even if you can call it that, because THAT I do NOT own the copyright.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty...

" I never could stomach fake..."

- DaphneYvonne Bradshaw

A lot of "modern art" is pure crap - even literally! And we "stomach" it, because it's "art". I don't understand half the "modern art". Like taking another person's work and putting your name on it, like Marcel Duchamp's Fountain. "The most influential artwork of the 20th century". The most influential fake, fraud, scam and prank of the art world. It must be some sort of "Emperor's Clothes" effect. The high and mighty art professors cannot admit they have been fed crap for 100 years, so they keep feeding crap to their students.

I don't think everything Picasso made was wonderful. Most of it is not. My favorite work of his is She Goat. :-)

I also like the Blue Nude.

and, frankly, even though I'm an Estetist, I think Guernica is ingenious. One of the best depictions of war and destruction ever painted. In that it works that it's damn ugly.

Also, I kind of like that apple painting, even though I wonder if it really is Picasso... I doubt it. But I like it :-D

Nevertheless... Picasso doesn't make me cry. Jeremy Lipking does.
I wish I could paint like Jeremy.
I wish I had Pablo's fame and money. I wish I could just draw three lines on a plate and sell it for millions.
I could sell those plates and use the money to paint real art.

P.S. 24/5-11

"A recent study in neuroaesthetics conducted by Professor Semir Zeki of England, gives scientific validity to an idea which artists have subscribed to for centuries: looking at beautiful art creates as much delight as being in love.
In a series of pioneering brain-mapping experiments, Zeki, a Professor of Neurobiology and the Chair of Neuroaesthetics at University College London, concluded that viewing beautiful art releases a surge of the neurotransmitter dopamine into the orbito-frontal cortex of the brain, stimulating the same 'feel-good' centers of the brain as are affected by romantic love.
"What we found," said Zeki, "is when you look at art - whether it is a landscape, a still life, an abstract, or a portrait - there is strong activity in that part of the brain related to pleasure."
-- Underpaintings: Almost like being in love