Light Revealed: Scratchboard Engravings - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0228101999 ISBN 13 : 9780228101994

Editeur : Firefly Books Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

285 glorious illustrations celebrate the scratchboard art of Scott McKowen.

"McKowen is a scratchboard master, creating theater posters and book covers of fantastic clarity, shrewd wit and subtle mystery. McKowen's mastery of line and texture, gift for arresting juxtapositions and perspectives, and fluency in drawing the human figure make for complex and breathtaking images that are at once old-fashioned and cutting edge."
--Booklist on McKowen's 2009 retrospective, A Fine Line

"It's hard to decide what's cooler about Scott McKowen's poster art: the astonishing, elegant design and linework, or the way he tips your preconceptions on their head and does something unexpected with every assignment. Luckily, we do not have to make a choice. It's all here."
--Neil Gaiman

Scratchboard artists use sharp instruments to etch lines into a board support layered with white chalk, silver foil and black ink to expose the white and grey surfaces underneath. Color, if used, is then added to make a spectacular work reminiscent of traditional woodcutting but as rich and dynamic as any full color painting. Because it is a reductive process -- you cannot fix mistakes -- it is considered one of the most difficult artistic techniques.

In Light Revealed, scratchboard master artist Scott McKowen builds on his 2009 retrospective, A Fine Line, with a personal selection of more than 150 new works. He gives a detailed analysis of each piece and describes what influenced his design. He includes images of the reference works he consulted during the conceptual process and talks about the struggles he had arriving at a design solution. He also discusses the influence and advantages of technological developments, such as Photoshop, which have carried the medium into the 21st century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Scott McKowen is a renowned and prolific scratchboard artist who has worked in the medium for more than four decades. His illustrations have been featured in hundreds of books, magazines, theater posters and comic books. He may be best known for illustrating Neil Gamain's Marvel Comics series 1602 and for several titles in the Sterling Unabridged Classics children's book series, as well as theater posters that capture the essence of plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Molière and other great playwrights.

Christopher Newton (1936-2021) was an award-winning director and actor. He moved to Canada in 1961 and built an acting career that included the Stratford Festival and Broadway. He was Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival for 23 years and upon retirement in 2002 became Artistic Director Emeritus.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Firefly Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0228101999
• ISBN 13: 9780228101994
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: McKowen Scott
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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