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Inspiration from Artists Week 116 Featuring Artists : Lillie Seika Jones and Kevin Sinnott
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Welcome to this weeks thread week 116 , just working on a list today and I have a list of about two hundred artist that we have not featured as yet.
This week’s featured artists are chosen by Jenny and Andrew, both have contributed quite a lot before but are always welcome as the give a good introduction.
Jenny will ope with her introduction to Lillie Seika Jones , on Wednesday Andrew will introduced us to the artwork of Kevin Sinnott .
Please do feel free to add you favourites painting from the featured artist through the week , I Hope you enjoy the selected works.
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LILY SEIKA JONES was born in 1989 in San Antonio, Texas, and was raised in British Columbia. She is a full-time artist/illustrator currently working out of Vancouver, having obtained a Batchelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of British Columbia.
She spends the majority of her time walking along the marshes or drinking tea indoors while creating her highly detailed, whimsical watercolour paintings. She sources most of her inspiration from her favourite childhood stories and mid-century illustrators, as well as the natural world of the Pacific Northwest. She is interested in how myths and fairytales shape our childhood and the world around us, and sees her art-making as an exploration of the significance of these stories as we grow up.
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Some superb samples of her work such a talented artist ,the detailing is amazing without being overdone.
I’m amazed at the amount of talent there is out there to find and enjoy, just by chance that I thought of the series but certainly one of my best ideas and then to have all your lovely people adding to it with your suggestions and choices of artwork. I’ve spent a couple of hours listing artists I’ve come across for future threads and was surprised that I have nearly two hundred that we have not featured as yet I also have a list that you folk have suggested . I would welcome more names to add to the list as I don’t want it to be mostly my chosen artists .
Hope I haven't duplicated anything.
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I have been unsure about this artist but couldn't put my finger on why. I couldn't doubt her skill. Then I saw Lew's first post above, the bird on a pale bluebell type flower stem. Something I could appreciate. It made me realise it was the fantasy, almost Tolkeinesque, nature of her work that made me uncertain. Perhaps it's the abundance of detail (see the second example in Jenny's post above), a story that you can't relate to by the image alone. I am sure that as a book illustration it works wonderfully well, but, for me, this style of painting doesn't grab me as a stand alone work of art.
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I take your point, Tony. Her work is mainly illustrations for children's books, as such, as you say, they work very well. It's fantasy, I like fantasy, but generally prefer it darker. But in terms of getting your ideas down on paper, I find this young artist's work admirable. For me, several of them do work as stand-alone art. The very first from Jenny, of the herons, the hare in my selection, and a few others. I'd have loved to have painted these. (One of my assessments of art...as ever, a personal thing...'I'd love to have painted that'...if I were able.) When I see work like this, it reminds me I need to put more work into my pictures, if I wish to emulate them.
Having recently switched from the paper to the digital versions of the POL magazines, I now have a 'wall' in the studio section. I've started adding art, and forum pieces to this wall.
I've added this thread to it.
This, of course is no attempt to sway Tony's views, it's simply my own...and I'm a self confessed illustration fan.
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I love the fantasy work in Tolkien so this is just another example of what I call a superb storyteller .
One of the thinks about dyslexia particularly as a child I relied on pictures to tell a story in a book and often my perception of what was happening wasn’t far from the storyline. I suppose from there I’ve developed my interest in art in general but more importantly for me is that a painting tells me a story.
She I’d definitely up there with the best of the illustrators that I seen in a long time .