Medium Voice

D’artiste features 4 concept artists Viktor Antonov, George Hull, Andrew Jones and Nicolas “Sparth” Bouvier. There artwork is used in top movies, video games, and television.

This book includes many step-by-step tutorials. Tutorials are

• Matrix Revolutions: Machine City
• Matrix Revolutions: APU Battle Sentinel
• Matrix Revolutions: Hand of God
• Seen it all
• Studio City
• Lesser Evil
• Unicorn of the Apocalypse
• Ellipsoid Complex
• Feast of Destiny
• The Crossing: Rooftops
• The Crossing: Street-Level
• The Colony: 19th Century City

Books like this are great inspiration for creative dry times.
Here is a layout of all the pages
Here is an interview with one of the artists George Hull
Link for more information and to purchase the book.

Prices are
$145 -limited edition
$55 -slip cased

A great tutorial with downloads of a pop-up 3D business card found on computerarts.co.uk website.

Although this seems like it would be a lot of work for a mass mailing but for someone wanting to make a big impression for a few companies this just might get you remembered.

Link to tutorial for 3D business card

If anyone if a fan of digital art this is a must have book. It is some of the strongest eye candy you will ever see. All 317 art piece shown in the book are submissions from artist all over the world.

Categories include Fantasy, Exterior Architecture, Interior Architecture, Portrait (Painted), Portrait (Rendered), Action, Conflict, Faery Folk, Creatures, Environment, Cityscapes, Matte Painting, Science Fiction, Abstract & Design, Product Design & Still Life, Horror, Surreal, Humorous, Whimsical and Transport

We have EXPOSÉ 1 at ASA and we still enjoy looking at it. It is a great source of inspiration when you are feeling creatively drained.

Prices are (we just get the soft cover)
$49 -soft cover
$59 -hard cover
$149 -limited edition

You can find more information and order here

A 1907 painting by Gustav Klimt stolen in WW2 has sold for a record $135 million. After a long legal battle the US Supreme Court ordered the paintings be returned. The paintings were purchased by The Neue Galerie in New York.

Click here for a picture of the painting and the news article

This beats the previous record held by Picasso’s Boy with Pipe for $104 million in 2004.

Klimt was one of most popular Austrian painters and help found the Vienna Art Nouveau movement.
More information on Klimt’s life and art can be found here

After a two year legal battle the court concluded that defining art is a right held by artists and not the courts.

Article can be found here.

This came about after a man submitted a portrait in what many would consider a drawing format to a painting contest. The judges picked it as the winner and in doing so prompted another artist to sue claiming it was not in titled to winning because it was a drawing and not a painting.

After hearing both sides the judge ruled that there was evidence to prove both sides and ultimately it was up to artists a whole to determine which is acceptable and what it not.

I agree with the ruling. The courts have no right to determine what is or what is not art. The part I have reservations with is the drawing considered a painting. I would like to hear what others think.
Can a painting be a drawing?
Can a sculpture be a painting?