Prismacolor
Portraits from Original Photographs of Beautiful Young Women
Photo-
Realistic Colored Pencil Portrait Art:
Contemporary Portrait Gallery
featuring the innovative Colored Pencil techniques of Contemporary American Artist
Howard David Johnson Photo
Realistic Art; Pencil
&
Colored Pencil Portraits from
original photographs of beautiful women;
Drawings in Prismacolor colored pencil as life like as photographs or oil paintings..."My
'Prismacolor Paintings' as I like to call them, especially
the complex illustrations, are
not at all what come to mind when people hear the word 'drawing'..." ~ HDJ
Original Studio
Photography and Colored Pencil Portraits:
Volume Drawings in Prismacolors by Howard David Johnson
Admission
free Colored Pencil Portrait Art Gallery
"The
original muses were the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, each of whom presided over a
different art or science. Today they are known as sources of inspiration or the spirit or
power regarded as inspiring and watching over poets, musicians, and artists. These are
intimate and previously unpublished personal portraits of the muses who continue to
inspire me in my professional illustrations and paintings, and are not for sale.
These are not commissions, these are the works I do for
relaxation, for my own pleasure and the enjoyment of the
model's loved ones and families."
Welcome Friends!Click
the control key plus the + or - keys to zoom in and out or
fit the page match to your monitor's settings.
"There is no greater
compliment to the photo-realist than disbelief." ~H.D.J.
Jessica
- (Right Portrait #4) (Left Portrait #4 close-up) Rendered in Prismacolors with Ebony pencil lowlights on Windsor & Newton Cotman
140 lb. Water Color Paper .
Jessica
- 0001
and Jessica 0002 - media: Prismacolors and Spectracolors with
Ebony pencil lowlights on Windsor & Newton Cotman 140 lb. Water Color
Paper . Background heightened with pastels. These colored pencil drawings are based on photos taken by the artist himself in
his photography studio especially for these portraits... a labor of love... for free
lessons in how to do this, keep scrolling down...
Blair -ooo2 media: burnt umber,
sepia, and yellow ochre, crimson lake, & salmon Colored Pencil on smooth bristol
board...
Tonya -ooo1 media: Salmon, light
salmon, red, white and blue Colored pencils with Ebony pencil darks polished with tissue
and smudged with blending stumps on exact vellum bristol board... Tonya was the muse who
first influenced HDJ to begin doing fairy paintings and other forms of faerie art in the
first place.
Above are Tonya (left) & Paige
( right), who, along with Carmen were the muses who inspired him most in the 1990's. Both
girls were rendered in Colored pencils in 1994 from photographs he took in his studio. It
has always been his custom to shoot portraits for the models when they pose in his
photographic studio for his illustrative drawings , paintings & digital art. Most of
these colored pencil portraits are still unpublished.
Here is Ann
rendered in Prismacolors (left) and Kimber, rendered in
Ebony pencils (right). Both are on exact vellum bristol board. "Just
for fun I filtered this photograph with a watercolor filter in Photoshop
before I rendered it. I never dreamed all those
years that I slaved to get my drawings as realistic as photographs that the day would come
when Kimber would ask me if I could make it LESS realistic so that her friends could
tell it was really a pencil drawing. There is no greater
compliment to a photo-realist than disbelief." ~HDJ
Carmen
rendered in Colored Pencils. "Mirror, mirror, on the wall"- there is a certain
magic when a beautiful woman stands in front of her mirror."I first met her when my
little albino ferret got lost. A knock came at the front door and there was our little
lost ferret in the arms of Carmen, soon to be one of my most inspiring, beautiful and
dramatically versatile models."~hdj
Here are the
fabulous sisters, Paige and
Blair, both rendered in Colored pencils with soft pastel added for effect. Keep scrolling
down for a large pastel painting with abstractions of Blair. You can see photographic
portraits of all these models on this page at the Studio Photography gallery via the
gallery links below.
"Aphrodite's Child" (MMIV) was rendered with Prismacolor Colored
Pencils on #400 Strathmore Bristol Board
"Helen of Troy" (MMIV)& "The Oracle" (MMVI)
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Prismacolor Colored Pencils on #400 Strathmore Bristol Board
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Jessica - 0003 - media: Prismacolors and
Spectracolors with Ebony pencil lowlights on Windsor & Newton Cotman 140
lb. Water Color Paper . Background heightened with pastels. Even with
nothing but pencil and paper the use of original photography as a source
makes this mixed media. See Johnson's Photographic artistry page for his
newly updated exhibit of photographic portraits, some used here.
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Taking it to the next level...
Combining Portraits and Illustration to create Fine Art...
"HELEN of TROY" was rendered in
Prismacolor Colored Pencils... a 'Prismacolor Painting' if you will - because this kind of
picture is not at all what comes to mind when people hear the word 'drawing'. These
relatively new soft oil and wax pencils are not the first Dry Painting Medium: the term
'Pastel Paintings' originated in the 17th century. These Paintings also employ the used of
Prismacolors liquifed with solvents and applied with brush...
Affordable Art
Lessons:
The Brandywine School
of the Illustrative Arts offers beginning, intermediate, advanced & master
level instruction in Drawing, Painting, Photography, & Digital Illustration
by Internationally acclaimed Illustrator & Photographer Howard David
Johnson. Your first 3 lessons are delivered online ~ Usually the same day via
e-mail that we accept your payment and are also mailed the next day on CD-Rom Disk via U.S.P.S. Priority (2-3 day)
mail or 1st class international mail.
For LOTS more information click any of the images
below to visit the school's page...
Here's
what you need again to get started: An
electric pencil sharpener, A dozen # 2 pencils with good virgin erasers, a
Dozen Ebony pencils, (or facsimile ) A set of 48 or more colored pencils,
preferably Original Prismacolors or a facsimile. Bristol board or smooth
drawing paper, a kneaded ( stretchy ) eraser, magic rub erasers, art gum
erasers, toilet paper, & lots of blending stumps, small, medium, &
large. most of all -
have
fun!
By
the end of lesson 10 I will have shown you EVERYTHING you need to know
and do to create your own Colored Pencil portraits like these...
Tools and Supplies:
THESE ARE THE TRIED AND TRUE PRODUCTS I
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These page is provided free of charge to aspiring artists, if you
would like to still learn more of his art techniques - personal instruction is available.
Want to Learn Johnson's portraiture
and photography techniques and everything needed for you to produce good
visual story telling art or dramatic illustrative portraits?
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*****
Who is Artist and
Photographer Howard David Johnson?
In one of David's invitations to the
Florence Biennale Contemporary Art Exhibition, (a partner in the United Nations'
Dialog among Nations), UN Secretary General Kofi Anon wrote him:
"Artists have a special role to play in the global struggle for peace. At their
best, artists speak not only to people; they speak for them. Art is a weapon
against ignorance and hatred and an agent of public awareness... Art opens new
doors for learning, understanding, and peace among nations."
A
portrait of the artist in his painting studio as he
is today. This September 2009 photo was taken by his youngest son Erich.
Howard David Johnson is a contemporary
realistic artist and photographer with
a background in the natural sciences and history. After a lifetime of drawing and painting,
David works in a wide variety of mixed media ranging from
oil on canvas
to digital media.
David's Traditional
Realistic Art was exhibited in the British Museum in London in 1996, ( 3 years
before he got his first computer ) as well as numerous American ones since, such as the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. David's realistic illustrations have made
appearances in every major bookstore and
game shop chain in America as well as magazines and educational texts around the
world.
Some
of his more prestigious clients have included the National Geographic
Society, the University of Texas, the
University of Cambridge in England, Paramount Studios, Universal Studios, PBS TV, Enslow
Educational Publishers, Adobe Photoshop, Auto FX, Doubleday, the
History Book of the Month Club, & J Walter Thompson Advertising, just to name a
few.Working in a variety of
media David offers his customers a variety of options and more
than three decades of
experience. As a realistic illustrator he has not only used the computer but has been involved
in the development and marketing of software for Adobe Photoshop.
Digital art, Colored pencils, Pastels, Mixed media, & also Oil
Paintings can also be commissioned for select projects.
Digital illustration projects start at
$500.USD. and group rates are available. David delivers custom made copyright free illustrations
& old fashioned
customer service when
he does work-for-hire. To publish
existing pieces of his realistic art,
David sells licenses starting at only $99.USD.
All these
pieces of realistic art and the text are legally copyrighted and were registered with the U.S.
Library of Congress Office of Copyright by the author, Howard David
Johnson All rights reserved worldwide. Permission for many academic or non-commercial
uses is freely and legally available by simply contacting the author via e-mail or visiting
www.howarddavidjohnson.com/permission.htm
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Essay and Articles Section:
Philosophy, Art, & Art
Philosophy
Personal Opinion Essays on Realism
yesterday and today by the artist.
STYLE and
TECHNIQUE
Howard
David Johnson is an outspoken proponent of mechanical aids to visual art.
Unlike the opponents of mechanical aids, his mission is not to prove his
talent but to help preserve our vanishing Western cultural heritage. In
addition to his mastery of the traditional media, now combines drawing,
painting, photography, and digital media with more than thirty years of
experience in these fields to create his Realistic Art Numerica in 21st
century paintings and pictures. Did
you know the Greek word "Photography" means "Painting with
Light"? Today with the advent of computers it truly lives up to it's
name. Due to developments in Art and Technology, a broader definition of
painting is needed than that which is found in common usage.
Introducing Art
Numerica- an exciting merger of traditional visual art and cutting edge
technology... a new art form for the twenty- first century... Art Numerica
is not limited to realistic art but also offers limitless horizons for
everything from cartoons to abstractions.
It
is the most dramatic development in the visual arts since the Renaissance.
There
is a school of thought that seems to think that a caveman’s beating on a
hollow log with a stick is automatically superior to Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony performed by the world’s finest symphony orchestra because less
technology is involved. I do not subscribe to this kind of thinking.
Personally I LOVE computers!
First of all, there’s the freedom from fear! The undo button is empowering
and liberating!
More importantly, publishing
customers can't afford to pay me for old-fashioned traditional methods like
oil on canvas. I can do them, and do them well, but no one but millionaire
art collectors can afford to pay even poverty level hourly rates for all
that time. The masters often took a year for a single painting. With digital
media I can create pieces that look very nice for very nice prices and with
blazing speed. The publishing industry is not noted for its patience. In the
early days of my art career, mailing traditional media originals was scary
at best, but now they can be scanned and shipped without risk.
Also in my early days adding canvas space to a work in progress was as
impossible as growing a second head... but now it is so easy I usually don't
even charge extra to adapt them if its just skies or landscapes! Re-dos and
revisions were financially catastrophic! No wonder the starving artist
became a stereotype! Before the internet, I struggled to find customers in
Austin Texas, now nearly every nation
on Earth has visited my website! This was beyond my wildest imaginings as a
boy. What an amazing era we live in! I love it!!!
~ Howard David Johnson
"Elven Fairy Magic" MMVII Prismacolor Pencils
"Those who are enamoured of
practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass
and never has any certainty where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a
sound knowledge of theory, of which perspective is the guide and gateway, and without it
nothing can be done well in any kind of painting."
Howard David Johnson is a
contemporary visual artist and photographer with a background in
the natural sciences and
history. He works in a wide variety of media ranging from traditional
oils, pastels and
others to cutting edge digital media. He loves mixing media. This site features
examples of
his Realistic Art, including illustration, photography, experimentalism, and fine
art.
Essay One:
"THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME..."
(A Brief essay dealing with attitudes toward Traditional Realistic
Paintings, Pastels, Colored Pencils and Art Numérica )
"Painting, in art,
the
action of laying colour on a surface, or the representation of objects by this means.
Considered one of the fine arts"
~Encyclopaedia Britannica.
"Painting. noun. 1.) The act
or employment of laying on colors or paints. 2.) The art of forming figures or objects in
colors on canvas or any other surface, or the art of representing to the eye by means of
figures and colors any object; the work of an illustrator or painter. 3.) A picture; a
likeness or resemblance in shape or colors. 4.) Colors laid on. 5.) Delineation that
raises a vivid image in the mind; as in word painting.
~ Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
of the English Language
Pastel, Acrylics, and Colored Pencils combined
Snobbism in the arts is nothing new. Some people will tell
you that oils are the only valid medium for realistic paintings. That Colored Pencil,
Digital, and other Realistic Painting and Drawing Media are not valid for
"real" art. Young artists, Don't let them bother you. Their forerunners used to
condemn Pastels before they gained acceptance and called them "crayons" when
Johann Alexander Thiele (1685-1752) invented them. Mercilessly disrespectful
art critics of the time could not stop the Experimentalists no matter how
viciously they
attacked and derided them. "Crayon-painting" as it was called in England was
practiced early on by persecuted pioneers in Switzerland and many other nations. What a
debt we owe to these master artists who refused to knuckle under to the pressure of those
short-sighted critics during those historic and experimental times. It took until 1870
with the founding of the "Societe` Des Pastellistes" in France that respect
came at last to these heroic & immortal visual artists.
In England the liberation of the Pastellists from slight regard and
undeserved disrespect came with the first exhibition of "The Pastel Society" at
the Grosvenor Gallery in 1880. Pastel Painters like Mary Cassat and others from
America and other nations forever silenced the snobs with their masterworks and
gained recognition at long last for Thiele's invention as a valid art medium. I am
persuaded that history will repeat itself. Like Pastels, I believe these wonderful
new colored pencils and even Digital Realistic Art Media will one day
receive the
recognition they deserve as powerful mediums of artistic expression just as pastel
paintings did. What is your definition of art? Have you thought about it?
Mine is: "anything that
makes you feel or think."
Consider
dancing... it can be a little skip in the step or rise to the level of the incomparable
Russian Ballet. Did you know that just the materials alone for a single oil painting cost
up to a thousand dollars these days? Even paying the artist less than minimum wage no one
but the super rich can afford them anymore. Something's got to give. Realistic paintings
in oil have been highly prized for centuries and the appeal and following of realistic art
is undiminished to this day. Oil paintings featuring Abstract Art and Realistic Art are
generally the most treasured form of all the visual art media and with good reason. But
snobbish art critics favoring abstract art have declared that realistic
paintings, or illustrations are not art for a century. With so many
representationalist paintings by so many immortal master artists hanging in the
Louvre, the Hermitage, and the British Museum and others I think the disrespect for
realistic illustrators that dominated the 20th century is academically ridiculous as well
as vain and intolerant, insisting theirs is the only valid opinion. What is your
definition of Art? I believe almost any form of human expression can be raised to the
level of "high art" especially visual art and Realistic illustration...
The detail reveals Realistic
art and abstract art combined
By my own definition of art, which is: "anything that makes you feel or
think" most abstract paintings are not "real art" tome personally,
because abstract paintings usually neither make me feel or think, usually focusing
obsessively on technique and avoiding any coherent content. I usually draw a complete
blank mentally and emotionally when I look at them. In 1979 the Houston Metropolitan
Museum of Art displayed a triptych of 3 giant paintings they paid fifty thousand
dollars for- three blank white canvasses entitled "untitled". Then there
was "The incredible new artistic Genius "with an I.Q. of 62
...Congo the chimpanzee
with his gala New York art exhibition...an elaborate prank played on the Snobbish American
Art critics about a generation ago by research scientists in the field of primatology.
Imagine how upset they were when he created one of his "ingenious masterpieces"
right before their eyes.
( My Source for this is the Time Life
Science Library volume entitled "The Primates". )
Art education has been almost completely removed from American
Schools as a result of generations of this kind of fabulous nonsense contributing to
America's cultural illiteracy crisis. Now, the works of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo,
and other notables are being removed from school libraries. After generations of
this, most American college graduates today cannot name even one living visual artist,
abstract or realistic.
There is no way that mandating
more math, requiring more reading, or scheduling more science will replace what we have
lost as a culture.
What is your definition of Art?
~HDJ
*****
Note:
Abstract Paintings by Congo the Chimpanzee outsold Warhol and Renoir by
over 25,000 dollars in June 2005 at a London art auction. Born in 1954,
Congo created more than 400 drawings and paintings between the ages of two
and four. He died in 1964 of tuberculosis. There is no precedent for this
kind of sale.
Essay Two
: The Rebirth of Realism
More thoughts on realistic art
yesterday and today by the artist
Art History
has entered a new era with the birth of Art Numérica, or
digital
art media in the 21st century. Artists never stop exploring with mediums. Artists have
been developing techniques, experimenting with different tools since at least twenty- five
thousand years ago, when the first artist picked up a charred stick and scratched a
picture out on the wall of his cave. You'd think everything would have been tried by now,
but it hasn't. Exploring new mediums this very day is just as exciting, just as full of
freshness and newness as it ever was.
Photography, Drawing, Painting and Art
Numérica
combined
The creation
of Realistic art has been the goal of most artists since the dawn of civilization.
Realistic art was the pride of ancient Greece. The world's greatest museums are full of
realistic art. Realistic art WAS art until the advent of the abstract expressionist
movement in the twentieth century. The coming of the camera in the nineteenth century
changed realistic art forever. Suddenly, realistic art was not the only way to create
realism in portraits and historical records. The work of the realistic artist was suddenly
made into an expensive luxury. The political power of the realistic artist was broken and
they were no longer an indispensable member of society. Hostility to the
creators of realistic art goes back to ancient times and the jealousy of advisers to the
Pharaohs and others who were not able to spend as much time with their rulers as their
portraitists. Although with the aid of photographs, realistic art achieved
levels of excellence undreamed of, the realistic art movement of the late nineteenth
century was short.
None
of these people earning their living creating realistic art could compete with the speed
and low cost of photographic portraiture. Determined to survive, great realistic
artists like Pablo Picasso ingeniously turned inward and began to explore things that could
not be photographed in a new school of art, abstract expressionism. The day of the fine
art superstars had arrived. It was now largely just a hobby to abstract and realistic
artists alike. Illustration, because of advances in printing technology
enabled an elite
few to earn a living with their realistic art. These illustrators working in realistic art
media were condemned and ridiculed in much the same way Europe's great symphonic
composers were condemned for working in motion pictures after fleeing the nazis during
World War Two. The rift between realistic and abstract art grew wider and wider. The
universities and key media usually sided with the abstract camp and derided anyone working
in any realistic art media declaring boldly that realistic art was not "real"
art. Immortal giants of realistic art such as Maxfield Parrish were mistreated their
entire lives. They were accused of selling out for creating beautiful pieces of realistic
fine art to earn a living. The attitude that the true artist must suffer and starve and
die in poverty became a rule. There were the Abstract art superstars, the professional
realistic illustrators, and the hobbyists who, although cut off from gainful employment
and social influence still recognized their artistic gifts as a calling rather than a
profession.
Early abstract art masters proved themselves as realistic
artists before delving into realms of the intangible. They had to do this at that time to
prove themselves because of the challenges they faced from the establishment for going
against the status quo. In the latter part of the 20th century, realistic artists like HDJ
were challenged to do abstract art to prove themselves as shown in the example above
(Deirdre of the sorrows). Later realistic art training was abandoned in most schools and
things like splattering paint in fits of rage were deemed more than enough. By the
end of the 20th century something as destructive and ridiculous as nailing a pack of
cigarettes to a shoe was considered fine art but not realistic paintings. Fashions in art
have often been as silly as fashions in ladies hats. As the century drew to a close,
many people had had enough. The realistic revolt was at hand. The rebirth of realism was
fueled by the advent of the digital era. Now, for the first time in almost two centuries,
an artist or illustrator could earn a decent living again with his realistic art. This is
historic. Realistic art is not going to go away, especially now that photography has
truly merged with traditional realistic visual art. Photography comes from the Greek words
meaning "painting with light". Now with the advent of digital media the
capability of realistic art has become almost limitless, truly, "painting with
light". The merger of all the world's art forms to realize the potential of motion
pictures has come now to still realistic art media. This website for example, combines
music, prose, poetry, photography and traditional realistic art media to create an
experience beyond merely looking at realistic paintings.
The twenty- first century is already seeing a new renaissance
in the arts
because of the world wide web. There has never been anything like it. Abstract art,
computer art, photographic art, and realistic art are continuing to be separate schools of
art but are also blending to create exciting new horizons. Although Digital art does offer
completely new horizons to the artist in the 21st century it does not mean the end of our
time honored art traditions. Instead, it offers additional ways to keep these traditions
and schools of thought fresh and alive. ~ HDJ
