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Illustration Friday topic

Inspiration: Shota Rustaveli
Illustrator: Sergo Kobuladze

Jazz

sketches from jazz concert

The New School for Jazz and Contemporary music Fall 2008 Concert Series Buhaina's Best: The Grand Musical Legacy of Art Blakey
The personnel for this concert is professor Charles Tolliver on trumpet, Nick Roseboro on trumpet; Jaamal Sawyeron tenor saxophone, Lamar Guillard on trombone; Professor Reggie Workman, bass , EJ Strickland on the drums and Vladimir Katz on the piano.

Balloon

Balloon: illustration Friday topic

pen and ink, acrylic

Inspiration - Russian Winnie-the-Pooh at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vinni_pukh_by_fjodor_khitruk.jpg
See Vinni Puh Part/Chast 1 at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuBzKV6XgvA&feature=related

thanksgiving

Hockey Turkey: inspired by report of Sarah Palin pardoning a turkey this year

Still life

After finding this fruit in the refrigerator I decided to record it. The watercolor technique used here employs multi-layered painting on dry surface: "акварельный метод от куска" -"of the piece”, another adequate translation would be a mosaic. Method: A light drawing outlines the main elements of the still life. If the basic composition looks satisfactory, it should be further articulated with detailed and descriptive drawing. The recommended line work should be light and precise, using an eraser only as a last option, since it would affect the textured watercolor paper. Next stage - tone and color, space, shapes of objects and drapery. The painting goes from the middle in a circular motion to the edges. The shape of the objects is modeled by facet-like brushstrokes. An additional layer of unifying color to soften the edges and calm down some areas was added afterwards.

Opinion(s)

pen and ink, color pencil
Illustration Friday topic
The illustration shows two opposites interacting: boldly outlined, thick, rigid, arrogant and stubborn opposite the long, almost see-through, narrow, unbelievably thin, way-too-flexible, ever changing "where wind blows", deformed, swaying before him.

Memories

acrylic, pencil
Illustration Friday topic
The Inspiration - a century old photograph showing two soldiers, dressed in the uniform of the Russian Imperial Army.
Description: Some faces and names had vanished without trace as if they never existed, while other will live long in the memories after they have gone.
The concept - The "nonpersons" cut from a series of photomontage images done by Gustav Klutsis: Politburo of the USSR, 1935, Vintage gelatin silver print
When faced with the task of creating a collective portrait, Klutsis chose to apply a photomontage technique to mediate the power relationships between the Politburo members, to show the strict internal hierarchy governed by quasi-military discipline. The schematic representation fiddles with the scale of the characters, awkwardly crops facial features, and puts all emphasis on Stalin's face, accented by the darker values of background.

'The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Although every image embodies a way of seeing, our perception or appreciation of an image depends upon our way of seeing. The past is never there waiting to be discovered, to be recognized for what it is.' - John Berger.