Bettie Mae Page

Bettie Mae Page - April 22, 1923 - December 11, 2008

With deep personal sadness I must announce that my dear friend and client Bettie Page passed away at 6:41pm PST this evening in a Los Angeles hospital. She died peacefully but had never regained consciousness after suffering a heart attack nine days ago.

She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality. She is the embodiment of beauty.

Statement by Mark Roesler, business agent for Bettie Page

A private funeral service is planned for Tuesday. Page will buried at Westwood Cemetery in Los Angeles, just a few feet away from Monroe.

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point

Ephemeral Realism

adrian tomine
http://www.adrian-tomine.com


james jean
http://jamesjean.com/


tomer hanuka
http://www.thanuka.com/


jillian tamaki
http://www.jilliantamaki.com/

These three illustrators all draw beautifully and their work has a similar ephemeral quality.

Igor Pantuhoff

http://www.thepaperbagprincess.com/igor/index.html

Retro websites

http://farbror-sid.se/b/
http://doplacebo.blogspot.com/
http://arthurignatowski.blogspot.com/
http://blondezombies.blogspot.com/
http://thatsmyskull.blogspot.com/

Retro downloads

http://cosmobells.blogspot.com/
http://axoncozysmut.blogspot.com/
http://qwerzzshaw.blogspot.com/
http://drgittfinger.blogspot.com/
http://cosseyedcyclops.blogspot.com/
http://thecrimelounge.blogspot.com/

Mati Klarwein, 1932–2002

http://www.matiklarweinart.com/
Mati Klarwein’s work has been most visible via the album sleeves of the Sixties and Seventies which borrowed his pictures for their covers. Chief among these is one of the best Santana albums, Abraxas (1970), which used his stunning 1961 painting The Annunciation (and a lettering design by Robert Venosa.
via http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/

Chanteuse Annie Philippe

Angelic-looking blonde Annie Philippe enjoyed a number of hits in the mid-1960s, although she never quite joined the premier league of French singers.

Flickr site

Check out more of Europe's girl singers of the 1960s at
http://www.readysteadygirls.eu

Guy Peellaert 1934–2008

Belgian pop artist Guy Peellaert, whose work includes album covers for the Rolling Stones and David Bowie, has died according to a report from Agence France Press.

Peellaert died Monday in Paris of heart failure. He was 74.

Peellaert created dozens of album covers, including David Bowie's Diamond Dogs, with its image of a male dog with Bowie's face and the Rolling Stones' It's Only Rock 'n' Roll. The Diamond Dogs cover, controversial because it showed the dog's genitalia, is considered a collectors' item because later versions were airbrushed over.

He designed posters for countless films, such as Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Wim Wender's The Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3497867/Guy-Peellaert.html

http://worldofkane.blogspot.com/2007/09/guy-peellaert-b.html

Mark Behm

Mark Behm

Hsia Moon

http://hsiamoon.blogspot.com/

Megapixel to print sizes

Landmarks in superhero comics

1.The arrival of the Watcher, Galactus and the Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four 48-51.

2.The Kree-Skrull war in Avengers 89-97.

3.The Frank Miller run on Daredevil.

4.The Amazing Spider-Man 31-33 Steve Ditko/Stan Lee

Books To Get You Started

Books To Get You Started:
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Betty Edwards
Drawing With Children - Mona Brookes
Anatomy for the Artist - Sarah Simblet
Perspective for the Comic Book Artists - David Chelsea
The DC Comic Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics - Mark Chiarello &Todd Klein
The DC Comic Guide to Pencilling Comics - Klaus Janson
The DC Comic Guide to Coloring Inking Comics - Klaus Janson
How to Draw the Marvel Way - Stan Lee & John Buscema
Comic and Sequential Art - Will Eisner
Graphic Storytelling - Will Eisner

Dynamic Anatomy -Burne Hogarth
Dynamic Figure Drawing - Burne Hogarth
Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery - Burne Hogarth
Dynamic Light and Shade - Burne Hogarth

Books That Will Give Further Insights to Comics
Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
Reinventing Comics - Scott McCloud
Making Comics - Scott McCloud

Simon Limon

http://www.limon-art.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/limon-art/

Justin Coffee

http://creamandsugartheartofjustincoffee.blogspot.com/

Film blog

http://www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com/

Jeremiah Ketner

http://smallandround.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallandround/

Nancy Kwan Documentary - Ka Shen's Journey

Dong Kingman

Dong Kingman (31 March 1911 - 12 May 2000) was a Chinese American artist. As a painter on the forefront of the California Style School of painting, he was known for his watercolor landscape paintings as well as his graphic design work in the Hollywood film industry. Kingman worked as an illustrator in the film industry, designing the backgrounds for a number of major motion pictures including "55 Days at Peking" and the Hollywood adaptation of "Flower Drum Song".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Kingman

French actress Dany Carrel

Bitch Slap - Coming Soon

Faster Pussycat Kill Kill re-imagined

OSS 117: Cairo - Nest Of Spies

Reg Varney reaches the end of the line

Reg Varney - 11 July 1916 – 16 November 2008

Kustom Graphics artists

Kustom Graphics: Hot Rods, Burlesque and Rock 'n' Roll by Julian Balme
http://www.jorgealderete.com/

http://johnbellstudio.com/

Allan G. Hunter

Stories We Need to Know: Reading Your Life Path in Literature

Shelby Steele

Obama's post-racial promise by Shelby Steele

MASSIMO CARNEVALE

MASSIMO CARNEVALE
http://ildonodieric.blogspot.com/

Coloring lineart using flats

colouring lineart

1. open your rgb scan
2. select the blue channel and duplicate it and name it "lineart"
3. clean up the lineart channel with levels/use threshold to make it b/w

4. in layers palate fill background layer with white
5. make a new transparent layer and name it "colour"
6. start making selections on the colour layer and fill them

7. once you have all the major parts filled copy this layer and paste it in to a new channel
8. name this channel flats.

9. On the colour layer slected an area
10. choose gradient with foreground to transparent (multipy mode).
make sure the foreground colour is the same as colour as the area you are colouring
11. drag over selected area - it will become darker
12. choose airbrush with screen mode 40% opacity
13. start painting to lighten the area
14. if you make a mistake select area from the flats channel and start again

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in the Cities - One of the key films of the New German Cinema, it is available on DVD for the first time ever in the UK. The disc includes an exclusive interview with Wim Wenders by Mark Cousins, rare interviews with stars Rüdiger Vogler and Yella Rottländer, a collectors booklet and photo galleries. The film is presented in Full Frame with German Stereo sound and English subtitles. Widely accepted to be one of the director’s most poignant films, it marked the emergence of Wim Wenders as one of the most distinctive European filmmakers of all time.

Exhibitions

2008
Art Associates Under $500 exhibition
Gardner Galleries
October 2008

Nintendo “Out of Controller” competition and exhibition
2nd place winner
FAD Gallery, Melbourne.
September 2008


2007
End of year art auction
Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy

2003-2005
Linden Postcard show
Linden – Centre for Contemporary Arts, St.Kilda

1996
Noma Concours Picture book exhibition
Encouragement prize
Artwork exhibited in Tokyo and Bratislava

Suggested purchase

Hi-Fi Color For Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results

Animation from pencils to pixels : classical techniques for digital animators

Prepare to board! : creating story and characters for animated features and shorts

How to cheat Adobe Flash CS3 : the art of design and animation

Graphic Artists Guild handbook : pricing [and] ethical guidelines

Drawing words, writing pictures : making comics: manga, graphic novels, and beyond

Making a living without a job : winning ways for creating work that you love

How to be an illustrator

Wim Wenders' road movies [videodisc]

How to make webcomics

Rita Moreno

FRAMED #09 – Creating Screen Characters: From Fiction to Docos

This week i attended the Framed talk – Creating Screen Characters: From Fiction to Docos at Digital Harbour

what makes a good character?
create detail in your character.
character who are failures are more interesting e.g. Sea Change
what is your characters weakness - that is more interesting.
Oz drama often takes a complex character and divides those traits up between several characters.

ABC's Australian story - shows everyone as a success.
Doco film maker proposed a film about multicultural football team. The team lost against the Italians and others.
The commissioning editor didn't want a film about losers.

A character carries on an internal monologue with himself - rats in the ranks
Film maker Robert connelley calls this Self-Rhetoric.
You want to convey the story - what are the best characters to do that.

writing the treatment forces you to focus on what the documentary is about.
don't bore your audience
a doco is the relationship between you and your subject.
we are full of contradictions - as a doco filmmaker you must reveal that.


On Wednesday 29 Oct I attended life drawing at Jika Jika Community Centre close to Westgarth station.

Attened opening of Under $500 exhibition at Art Associates in Richmond. My painting "The Betrayal" is part of this show.

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S. Thompson

Saw Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S. Thompson at ACMI

Hideko Takamine

Hideko Takamine in When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 1960
Directed by Mikio Naruse.
www.criterion.com

Bernie Fuchs

I’m basically an illustrator,” Bernie Fuchs says up front. “That’s what I wanted to be, and I’m very happy with it.”
Interview with Bernie Fuchs on myamericanartist.com

Matt Dixon's book

Fantasy Artist's Figure Drawing Bible: Ready-to-Draw Characters and Step-by-Step Rendering Techniques by Matt Dixon.
Amazon link

Cute poster design for The Ugly Truth

K-Tel documentary on SBS

http://www.midcanadaentertainment.com/k-tel.html

Butterfly on DVD!

Read the review here

Illustrator Andreas Gefe

http://www.gefe.ch/

UK Artist Matt Dixon

http://mattdixon.co.uk/