I was recently asked to participate in the new blog Illostribute.com . Illostribute is a new collaborative illustration blog, conceived and edited by illustrator & artist Toby Thane Neighbors . The idea is to honor master illustrators (and occasionally fine artists) by seriously investigating their work, through interpretation.
The first master artist that was selected for this project was the amazing J.C. Leyendecker. His work is beautiful and elegant, and you can read more about him HERE , and below I've posted a few of his pieces which I referenced for my inspired painting.
As for my piece inspired by Leyendecker's work, what I focused on was his bold graphic concept of letting everything in black fall away, only relying on lighter objects in the piece to tell the story in the painting. I love how limited yet very descriptive this technique is that he occasionally used and so I thought I'd explore that concept in my piece inspired by his work.
Drinks With Leyendecker
Acrylic & Paper Collage
8" x 10"
2010
6 comments:
Hey Nate,
I'm a big fan of your work, and Leyendecker is one of my favourite illustrators of all time, so it's really cool to see your take on his work. This turned out really great. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic work Nate, love the style that you are bringing to the animation industry - it makes me rethink design :) Beautiful stuff!
fantastic, I love how you took your own interpretation of his style. Looks great!
AMAZING WORK!!!!!!!!!!
Sam - Hey thanks so much,this was a fun piece to do and mostly it was really fun to take a look at Leyendeckers work, and create something inspired from what he does so well.
Taylor - Thanks dude, mostly I'm just trying to have fun with everything I do, so glad you like the work.
Chase - Thanks, yeah it was tough at first to dissect what I should pull from his work cause there is just too much that;s amazing, and two I wanted to make sure that it was still mine, just inspired by his greatness. In the end, I had a blast combining my style with flares of his.
Tel - Thanks!
Hi there!!
I'm a big fan of Leyendecker, and, from now, of your work too!!
adding to my favourite blog list!
Cheers!!
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