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Inspiration from Artists Wk169 featuring Artis are : Nicolas de Crecy and William Fraser Garden.
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I agree Lewis his "straight " portraits don't lean towards the cartoon genre, but they are very quirky. I did actually mean his humanised animals remind me of your artwork, even though you draw humans...if you see what I mean!
Wobbly, I love wobbly. It's taken me years to do wobbly. I personally think his best draughtsmanship is when it's wobbly. Now my hands do wobbly without me trying much lol.
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One more selection. Regarding his wobbly hands quote, have a look at this drawing, it looks great...
...now I've enlarged a small section (below). Look how he's drawn the details to the ornamental facade on the building...very loosely scribbled. And look at the wrought iron gates to the left...more quickly done scribbles. Very clever, and very, very effective.
Many of these are illustrations for his graphic novels, I like the more fanciful figures, including a disembodied head that appears in several images. I've avoided showing many pages from these books, because my French isn't up to translating them and, anyway, they stand as interesting art on their own.
I've no idea what's going on here, maybe I'm too young and innocent to know...
...now I've enlarged a small section (below). Look how he's drawn the details to the ornamental facade on the building...very loosely scribbled. And look at the wrought iron gates to the left...more quickly done scribbles. Very clever, and very, very effective.
Many of these are illustrations for his graphic novels, I like the more fanciful figures, including a disembodied head that appears in several images. I've avoided showing many pages from these books, because my French isn't up to translating them and, anyway, they stand as interesting art on their own.
I've no idea what's going on here, maybe I'm too young and innocent to know...
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A few more to wrap up this subject.
One of the great joys of art is that there's always someone new to be discovered. For me Nicolas de Crecy is one of the most original artists I've found recently. But I would think that, he's an illustrator who works with the same materials that I use, and shows what wonderful results can be achieved. So...an inspiration to me.
One of the great joys of art is that there's always someone new to be discovered. For me Nicolas de Crecy is one of the most original artists I've found recently. But I would think that, he's an illustrator who works with the same materials that I use, and shows what wonderful results can be achieved. So...an inspiration to me.
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Well no for my featuring artist , thank you Lew for your real good introduction to such a fine artist . We have chosen different styles of work for our artist but interestingly we both have found artist that have inspiration us immensely it seems . The artist I’m introducing is William Fraser Garden , who I only came across about a week ago , I instantly liked his work so had a longer look at it and I’m absolutely blown away with I’d landscapes to the point of him becoming my favourite artist at present . Probably not to everyone’s taste but for me his painting sing out loud , probably because I love landscape paintings and when they are this good it’s impossible not to like them, for some they may be a bit to realistic and not painterly enough, I put him up there with Peder Mork Munsted .
Sorry I’ve harped on a bit and been very greedy posting his painting , hope you are not to bored with my choices .
Willian Fraser Garden ,1856-1921 born Willian Garden Fraser at Chatham Kent , shortly before his father retired from the army medical department. The Fraser family were a Scottish family but the Surgeon Major , his wife and nine children settled in Bedford, where they seven sons were educated at Bedford School. Six of the seven boys became artists and there is some suggestion that the daughters painted as well.
Garden as he was known changed his name to William Fraser Garden to distinguish himself from his brothers.
He married Ethel in 1889 but she was not overly fond of living in Huntingdonshire where they had settled nor of Gardens eccentric ways and left him in 1904.
He lived in the Ferryboat Inn in Holywell towards the end of his life, paying his bills with his drawings .
His eccentricity led him to a nocturnal existence and one night in 1921 he missed his step outside the Inn and died from the head injury’s two week later.
I will look at his brother’s artwork in depth and do a week special feature on the family.
