illustration
Illustrated Murals
Illustrated murals by Charlotte Mann and Mural Opportunities described on Art Is Everywhere -- an art blog by Ashley Spencer.
Christmas Week
With just two days before Christmas, I thought I’d continue with a mix of Christmas oriented murals, wintry scenes and music. I usually don’t like modern murals with biblical or religious oriented murals, but these are very well done by Keith Goodson for Champions Church in Winter Haven, Florida. He seems to have found the right balance between realism and stylistic portrayal that appears alive and dynamic. Another Christmas-like mention for this week would have to be the cover of The Washington Post‘s Book World, which makes a comeback at this time annually, whereas it used to be a regular Sunday section feature but was dropped in 2009. I thought…
Laser Murals
These laser murals were “painted” onto sides of buildings with light and videotaped (below) for the London based Green Car Cab company, Green Tomato Cars which consists completely of Toyota Prius hybrids . Illustrators working with Dentsu London skilfully created these images and they are still spreading around the Internet. They remind me of Picasso, when he did his light paintings. The difference is he could not see what he was “painting” only after it was captured with photography. If the video has trouble loading, click here to go directly to the site to view. Evidently, there is some controversy about who the originator of this laser painting technology is,…
