Frank Frazetta has a realistic representational style for his oil paintings. He uses composition and value to really well.
Frank Frazetta started out his art career by drawing comics. Born February 9 1928 he published his first professional work in 1944 at the age of 16. He was learning how to paint at the time but kept and drawing comics for a while. By 1955 Frazetta had pulled back from comics after working under Al Capp. After a while Roy Krenkel convinced Frank to do paperback book covers. 1965 to 1973 were productive years for the painter doing several covers for series such as Vampirella and Conan. He even did magazines and posters. Frazetta become a big influence on many science fiction artists. To this day frank Frazetta has many health problems so he doesn’t do many professional works any more but his art is highly regarded to where a simple sketch could sell for thousands of dollars. Though he mainly works in oil paints he can use watercolor, ink and pencils masterfully.
I like this work because of the composition and the value on the different colors. I like how the tree gets molded into the background and how the colors flatten as they do so giving atmosphere to the background. The placement of the warrior and the height of the water at his shins give you a good sense of the space between the warrior and the crocodile (or alligator witch ever it is). I also like how he blended the sky and water together putting a reflection below the monster and the tree and using a stream of color around the bodies and the warrior’s legs.
The style is very different from mine by the use of color and value to create an atmosphere. I believe that these two things along with well-placed figures will affect my style this semester.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Frazetta
http://www.bpib.com/frazetta.htm
http://frankfrazetta.org/
Posted for Zach B.
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