Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Artist Week 11- 21st century artists

1. Fred Tomaselli

2. David Schnell

3.  Inka Essenhigh

4. Julie Heffernan





5. Ceal Foyer

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Artist Week 10- Fiber Art

1. Annelise Albers

 Textile Artist and Printmaker of the 20th century who works traditionally and industrially to create wall hangings and other works.

2. Sue Reno

A member of SAQA, Professional Artist Member of Studio Art Quilt Associates, she is best known for her quilts.




3. Claire Zeisler



She is a knotted and braided thread master.



4. Diane Itter

She experiments with fine threads, small knots, and colors to create her array of work.







5. Ed Rossbach


He mixed ceramics and weaving into his own style of basket weaving.



Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Artist Week 9- Comic Artist!

1. Tim Sale

 I'm a sucker for a man who can uses dark contrasts to illustrate my favorite dark knight and Heroes.

2. Michael Turner


Turner takes more of a digital approach with brighter compositions. 

3. Jim Lee


Lee is in the middle combing both dark blacks with bright digital colors to draw my favorite heroic duo.

4. Mike Mignola

He is the creator of the Hellboy comics and worked on one of my favorite animated films, Atlantis: the Lost Empire.


5. Jhonen Vasquez


He created Invader Zim, a show that showed me how nonsensical and free animation can be.  I've been meaning to read  his comic, Johnny the Homicidal maniac.