Jun 26, 2007
Illustration of the Week
Perhaps I should rename this weekly post to “Art of the Week”, or something like that. Any suggestions?
Well, here is my Illustration of the week, by Bulgarian-born Illustrator Christo Bakalov. Some of his illustrations are even available under the creative commons licence. I’m a big fan of his style and, the often, black/dark humour that inspires his illustration.
An interesting chap: born 1969 in Bulgaria, he now works in Marseilles in the South of France (what a wonderful place that is); among other things, he works on the American monthly magazine, Foreign Policy, that has published pieces by the likes of Noam Chomski.
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LaurenMarie - Creative Curio
Wow, those are digital? The texture is beautiful! I find it hard to bring realistic looking textures like this into my work. He uses those gradients so subtly, too, I didn’t even realize it until he said so in his comment to you.
Maybe, you could call it Eye on Art? It should be something with “art” so that it encompasses everything you watch, and by eliminating the “of the week,” there’s no need to limit yourself
I do enjoy these posts!
Jun 27th, 2007
johno
Eye on Art. I like it. Thanks, Lauren.
Jun 27th, 2007
LaurenMarie - Creative Curio
Or maybe, for fun, I on Art. Heh, so long as you give your impressions
Jun 27th, 2007
inspirationbit
What and amazing talent he has. He should do illustrations to Franz Kafka books.
Re: title. How about
- Art Dose or Weekly Dose Of Art
- Art Fix or Art Fix Of The Week
- Creative Fix
- Art Snippet or Art Snippet Of The Week
If I were to run smth similar on my blog, I would’ve called it Art Bits
Jun 27th, 2007
johno
Lauren and Vivien
Some great ideas. I like I on Art and Creative Fix.
Illustrations for Kafka books. Great idea. Perfect. There is something “sinister” about these illustrations. That’s got me thinking about some other titles he could could illustrate for:
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
George Orwell’s 1984
Karel Čapek’s Rossum’s Universal Robots (RUR)
José Saramago’s Blindness
Inspiring comments. Thank you.
Jun 27th, 2007
Christo
Hi
Thank you for your comments. I just wanted to mention that all my creative commons licensed work is available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christobakalov/
Share and enjoy!
Christo Bakalov
Jun 28th, 2007
johno
Thanks for the link Christo.
Jun 28th, 2007
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