Fine Art & Traditional Techniques

[nisus]

Hi all,

 

As we are all artists, I guess we all appreciate

some kind of fine art. Here are a few questions to you

 

What artists are you inspired by? And why?

 

What traditional techniques do you use or are you inspired by when making renderings?

 

rgds

 

nisus

[STRAT]

hi nisus

 

well my favourite artist is Gerald Coulson. He paints some of the most beautifully land/sky scaped avaition paintings you'll ever see in your life. infact in my front room at home (my avaition room) i have 5 large framed paintings of his. this is the guy that inspires me. go look him up on the internet

 

i'm also a massive fan of watercolour artist Josep Martinez Lozano. his dramatic and subtle use of colour is wonderfull.

 

I've tried drawing/painting in a massive range of media, but i generally stick to 3 things - pencil sketing, watercolour and acrylics.

i tried oils a few times but just couldn't really get to grips with them, so i find water based acrylics a very close second. nice to work with, totally opaque and the main factore - they dry with in minutes!!! i'm impatiant you see.

[nisus]

Hi strat,

 

I'm definately gonna search for these artist, because I don't know them.

 

Personnally, I like Degas's use of paint daubs a lot and, James Ensors' colors and Giorgio De Chirico's abstractness.

 

I like the pensketches of PETER (a dutch artist).

He's got a great style. I like the way how a few well-placed strokes of his evoke people and space.

 

The etches from Jules De Brucker are really amazing. His work has been a real addition to my love for detail.

 

I admire Brancusi, Richard Long and Ruckriem as modern artists but my true love goes to the sculptures of George Minne. My teacher - Paul Gees - has also been a great inspiration to my work. Michelangelo and Bernini stole my heart for realistic sculpturing.

 

Orson Welles rocks for lighting and storytelling.

 

Another strange love of mine is icon/traffic plate-design. Remember the icons for the Olympic Games in 1972 that evoked all different kind of sports?

 

For architectural visualisation I like Gil Gorski (color pencil) and Ernest Burden (sketches). Their very nice traditional style are a great inspiration for camera and lightning setup.

 

For architecture: I like most things besides Common Belgian Architecture and Post-Modernism.

My love goes to the measonry architecture of 1920-1960, glass&steel architecture (end of the 19th century), high-tech and bunkers from the WWII!

 

The techniques that inspired me a lot are:

- sketching: a few strokes evoke an object, an atmosphere. This is my painters way of making renderings: using only one stroke to simulate a tree, instead of drawing every leaf.

- underpainting: a great watercolor-technique that can aid the focus on important things. I actually do overpainting in photoshop, but the basics are the same.

- suprisingly I learned a lot from medieaval painters like Memling, who did not know a correct perspective but simulated it through the use of different planes in combination with colors.

You can easily spot a front, middle and back plate - like they compose movies nowadays - having their own color schemes. Studying these techniques can add a lot of depth to your images!

- traditional architectural visualisers have influenced my way of setting a camera very much.

- black and white photography and film helped a lot to get a touch of light.

- icons and sculptures of Ruckriem have helped me to synthesize the story and to communicate the message.

 

rgds

 

nisus

[nisus]

Gerald Coulson is great... and he did not get any art education... wow!

[Arnold Gallardo]

Vermeer definitely...One of the reasons I became passionate about radiosity is after seeing this way back in a magazine which was based on Vermeer's 'Lady and gentleman at the Virginals' :

 

http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/research/vermeer.jpg

 

http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/v/vermeer/index.html

 

Then there is Michelangelo for the mastery for all the 3 great Arts; painting,sculpture and architecture. This is best demonstrated by the Medici chapel and the capitoline HIll project:

 

http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/medici/medici.html

 

http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/rome/capitoline/thumbnails_contents.html

 

The for photography there is Edward Weston who changed modern photography along with Ansel Adams,Alfred Steiglitz and Paul Strand.

 

http://www.westongallery.com/index.html

http://www.photology.com/weston/

http://www.anseladams.com/

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/S/stieglitz/stieglitz.html

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/S/strand/strand.html

 

For line art or drawings there is always Ingres:

 

http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o351.html

 

Or Jacques Louis David:

 

http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o62.html

 

And Piranesi:

 

http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/p/piranesi/index.html

 

Film movies/film there is too long of a list from John Alton, Jordan Cronenworth to Kubrick to Ridley Scott and Orson Wells.

 

its all abut establishing a 'presence' and conveying the kind of emotion and feeling you want to get across as well as showing the subject as much as possible.

[nisus]

Hi Arnold,

 

Tnx for the Great links

 

Here is a link on Jules De Bruycker. I'm very found of his etchings.

http://www.jules-de-bruycker.de/index.html

 

Be sure to check out the sculptures of Jules Lagae and George Minne too.

 

rgds

 

nisus