These are very similar in style to children’s illustrations. There is one major difference, however: kids here don’t smile as explicitly and are a little older. In fact, the quiet and, as you may see from the images here, intentionally serene characters are almost the opposite of the rambunctious crowds playing and interacting in the [...]
In Introduction Part 1 we discussed the why, when, how and where of this guide. In the second and last part of the introduction I would like to first, talk about the audience — who may find the guide useful; and second, introduce and elaborate a little on the table of contents. Audience Basically, I [...]
There is a purely entertaining side to browsing Cindy Revell’s website still life gallery. With each page I discovered new subjects, new variations; different angles and additional unexpected objects would alter and turn over the hierarchy inside the depicted realm. For example, a fruit that crowned a tower of several cups in one painting may [...]
Cindy Revell is a Canadian painter and illustrator who has worked for several well known companies and publications and creates art in a variety of genres and trends: illustration, functional art and realist oil paintings. Most of her oil works depict still life, and only occasionally a portrait or a landscape. You will find a [...]
The discrepancy between dark palette and light mood creates an effect of surprise and subsequently suspense. In these greyhound paintings this stylistic feature (of mood and color counterpoise) finds a more comic than ironic expression. Indeed sometime I get the feeling the artist fully enjoyed and indulged herself painting these subjects — so unstrained looks [...]
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