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The YOYO a crayon work by RC Westerholm |
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origins of clowns can be traced back to the Circus Maximus of Rome. Clowns started as Greek and Roman mimes
and were usually bald headed padded, stupid fools.
The sad faced Emmett Kelly is perhaps the most well known modern day clown.
Emmet Kelly |
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#1 in the Clown Series clowns as 6 x 9 art cards with clown history printed on back |
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| design on cloth | sweat shirt design on cloth |
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package design for GS Teja |
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design - Bob Westerholm
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth .... Pablo Picasso
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The artist - R.C. Westerholm was born and raised in
Vancouver and is intimately familiar with the city. He
attended the old Vancouver School of Art and is known for his finely
detailed pen and ink drawings of Vancouver area scenes. |
| a personal selection of interesting buildings in Vancouver | Limited Edition Print and
art card design by Bob Westerholm - published by Masalla Galleries Graphics |
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The Old Neighborhood - Vancouver is fortunate to have such an ambient mixture of old and new. The older neighborhoods: among them Cedar Cottage, Marpole, Strathcona, Grandview and Collingwood, reflect the earlier years of Vancouver's settlement and a way of life that seems sadly to be passing into history. These wooden houses age gracefully and with a certain degree of charm and dignity, character houses that endow the city with a most relaxed atmosphere. These are from East Keefer Street. |
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| designs on cloth for sweat shirts | © RC Westerholm |
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. - Salvador Dali
Book Cover Art Designs
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| brochure design for Passport Travel © Passport Travel Ltd. | |
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© RC Westerholm
a favorite artist - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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Expectations - 1885 oil on panel Alma-Tadema's superb appreciation of light makes everything he painted very special and worthy of long consideration by other artists. His composition often defies whatever 'rules' there are and leads to many questions. He sometimes surprises with converging lines and choice of colour.
Look for the painting 'Unconscious Rivals' by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema on the web too and see what I mean ..
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many art reproductions here of famous artists - 1st-art-gallery.com/
Of course, art is where you find it.
Even a 6 year old
child's impression of a fairy angel with gossamer wings is art
as it pleases the eye . . .
Jordan's Crystal Fairy
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... with permission from the artist
| New art form? The New York Times recently had an article that supposed the computer adventure series, 'Myst', had created a new art form. We suggest that the art form was established way back in the forties by Walt Disney with such productions as Snow White, Fantasia and Pinocchio. Do the artists who envision the modern computer games sneak back into history for a peak at inspiration? We think so. Take a look at an enchanting film cel for Pinocchio - and compare it with the screen shot from URU, from the wonderful concept of the Myst series for computer. |
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| from Steamboat Willie in 1928 ... | to modern Mickey ... | Walt Disney was doing it for Pinocchio in 1940 |
The only limit to art is imagination ...
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Myst computer adventure, from URU - 2003 - similarities to Pinocchio? |
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The Myst series of computer adventure games took the computer world by storm. Using CD-ROM drives the nonviolent Myst, Riven, Myst III, IV, V and Uru were phenomenal and sold millions, becoming the top selling computer games of all time. The artwork and graphics established what exactly was state of the art in computer imagery and took full advantage of the computer's ability to use movement and illuminate a screen image which contributed to the intellectual challenge of progressing through the quest to solve the adventure. And allowed the user to control the game. The thinking and design of such games revolutionized computer gaming and artwork. |
Cyan Worlds Inc. Copyright 2003-2009 Cyan Worlds, Inc.
Victor Navone's ground breaking 1999 computer animation
I Will Survive -
sung by Gloria Gaynor
written by Dino Fekaris & Freddie Perren
- © 1978 Polygram Records, INC.
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| In private life, clowns are often thoughtful, lonely and shy. But a transformation takes place with the first smear of greasepaint and as the final adjustment of the costume is made the character change is complete and we see joviality and merriment. Sometimes the artist too is transformed at the first smear of crayon to paper or oil to canvas. |
© RC Westerholm Ltd. © Masalla Galleries Graphics. #5 in the Clown series has disappeared.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating .... Salvador Dali
What the truly great artists can do with so few lines blows my mind ....
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| ... there are the deft pen strokes of Rembrandt van Rijn - The Three Crosses - 1653 |
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BOB ART
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styrofoam is so fun to draw on |
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sSome links to investigate ....
Fundació Gala - official Salvador Dali - http://www.salvador-dali.org/en_index.html The Metropolitan Museum of Art - browse here - http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp Myst Worlds the games and the art - cyan. the Worlds of Myst Masters of pin-up art - http://www.thepinupfiles.com/ Many aspects of good design - http://www.chi-athenaeum.org/gdesign/gdesign0.htm
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the old poster art was great but computers changed everything |
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