HOME | DD

Description
1. Troy Wingard is my first drawing teacher. He makes giant pastel drawings (look behind him).

2. Margaret Morrison was my second teacher. She makes giant oil paintings of candy and other sweet things.

3. Alphonse Mucha pretty much defined the Art Nouveau Movement, though he hated the term Art Nouveau. He has wonderful lines and uses a lot of warm colors.

4. Charles Dickens. I love the way he creates such vivid personalities. Even after his death, characters such as Scrooge, Pip, Miss Havisham, and the Artful Dodger still resonate.

5. Edgar Allan Poe. For his dark tales of loss and longing to which I can relate.

6. James Jean's lines are elegant and light; I like his notebooks, filled with precise, fluid linework.

7. Jon Foster. Lovely compositions and textured surfaces for his paintings. I enjoy that though a lot of his work has focus in the center of the picture plane, he makes the subjects energetic and intriguing.

8. Eric Fortune. Quiet but powerful use of gradients and lighting. The texture of his paintings seem to melt into the surface of the paper.

9. Sam Weber. I also like the contemplative mood of this artist's works. Often he restrains on his use of color, knowing just when and where to place it. His works feel like they have a narrative quality to them as though they are a small piece of a whole.

10. Sterling Hundley. Excellent use of perspective, and sometimes collapses and flattens the image, which is rather cool. I also enjoy how he includes hand-drawn text in his works.

11. Joao Ruas. This artist reminds me of a lot of elements in my own work, and I really enjoy the use of grayscale.

12-14. Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. I love Motown Records.

15. Ray Bradbury. You really have to read Martian Chronicles. You really do.

Description
1. Troy Wingard is my first drawing teacher. He makes giant pastel drawings (look behind him).

2. Margaret Morrison was my second teacher. She makes giant oil paintings of candy and other sweet things.

3. Alphonse Mucha pretty much defined the Art Nouveau Movement, though he hated the term Art Nouveau. He has wonderful lines and uses a lot of warm colors.

4. Charles Dickens. I love the way he creates such vivid personalities. Even after his death, characters such as Scrooge, Pip, Miss Havisham, and the Artful Dodger still resonate.

5. Edgar Allan Poe. For his dark tales of loss and longing to which I can relate.

6. James Jean's lines are elegant and light; I like his notebooks, filled with precise, fluid linework.

7. Jon Foster. Lovely compositions and textured surfaces for his paintings. I enjoy that though a lot of his work has focus in the center of the picture plane, he makes the subjects energetic and intriguing.

8. Eric Fortune. Quiet but powerful use of gradients and lighting. The texture of his paintings seem to melt into the surface of the paper.

9. Sam Weber. I also like the contemplative mood of this artist's works. Often he restrains on his use of color, knowing just when and where to place it. His works feel like they have a narrative quality to them as though they are a small piece of a whole.

10. Sterling Hundley. Excellent use of perspective, and sometimes collapses and flattens the image, which is rather cool. I also enjoy how he includes hand-drawn text in his works.

11. Joao Ruas. This artist reminds me of a lot of elements in my own work, and I really enjoy the use of grayscale.

12-14. Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. I love Motown Records.

15. Ray Bradbury. You really have to read Martian Chronicles. You really do.