tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62210619831407621932024-03-13T12:56:18.448-04:00Ken Laager Carrying on the Art of Traditional Illustrationkw slaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387977820286045513noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221061983140762193.post-29437358044810100972016-12-07T14:38:00.006-05:002016-12-07T14:38:48.104-05:00Spectrum 23 – Ken Laager<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Kurt Asplandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06100716008037516607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221061983140762193.post-89247857958745020852016-01-15T12:18:00.000-05:002016-01-15T12:43:20.585-05:00ROGUES Remarques<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The original illustration art for ROGUES is now available to purchase from my on-line store at <a href="http://kenlaager.com/"> www.kenlaager.com </a>or <a href="http://www.kenlaager.bigcartel.com/">www.kenlaager.bigcartel.com</a></div>
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<br />Ken Laagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17895089501115438902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221061983140762193.post-69562610254566223022014-11-13T15:50:00.000-05:002014-11-13T15:50:16.732-05:00A Humorous Portrait<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My illustration for <i>"Tough Times All Over", </i>Joe Abercrombie's jaunty tale of thieves who stalk one another dog-eat-dog through the dark alleys of tomorrow.</div>
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I'm illustrating another book for Subterranean Press. This one will be the most ambitious project they've ever undertaken: a big,<span style="color: #232323; font-family: Helvetica;"> lavishly illustrated collector's edition of <i>ROGUES </i>edited by <a href="http://grrm.livejournal.com/">George R.R.</a> </span><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://grrm.livejournal.com/">Martin</a> </span><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Helvetica;">and <a href="https://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/rogues.">Gardner Dozios</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">My illustration for </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Rogue Prince, </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">GRRM's newest addition to </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A Song of Fire and Ice, </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">appears on the cover. It features Prince Daemon Targaryen in a story set generations before the dramatic events of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A Game of Thrones</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="">I'm deeply gratified to know that ROGUES quickly sold-out in pre order, as did the copies that I will remarque. </span></span><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="">We're sparing no effort to make this very special volume one to be cherished by those who love and value illustrated books.</span></span></div>
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kw slaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387977820286045513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221061983140762193.post-43311021288525503012014-05-27T10:37:00.001-04:002014-05-27T11:00:24.228-04:00Art Renewal Center 2013-14 Salon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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African-American Nat Love (aka Deadwood Dick) was a real life Texas plainsman. In <i>Black Hat Jack</i>, master storyteller Lansdale introduces a new generation of readers to Nat's thrilling adventures as a buffalo soldier, hide-hunter, Indian fighter, cowboy and lawman in the Old West.</div>
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Ken Laagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17895089501115438902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221061983140762193.post-32257508039412176752013-12-18T14:24:00.000-05:002013-12-18T16:43:10.620-05:00The Arms and Farms Expedition / part 2<div class="ii gt m142c39cca73dd279 adP adO" id=":v6" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;">
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Ken Laagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17895089501115438902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221061983140762193.post-21975847795076747082013-11-26T20:32:00.004-05:002013-12-21T06:42:25.849-05:00The Arms and Farms Expedition / part 1<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Last week I joined a remarkable group of fellow artists for the Arms and Farms Expedition to Massachusetts. Activities included seeing the John Singer Sargent Watercolors show at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, sketching at the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester and Old Sturbridge Village, impromptu roundtable discussions of art and plenty of good fellowship.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;">At work in the Higgins Armory Museum blocking-in my <em>en grisaille</em> study of a mounted crusader knight.</span></strong></div>
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kw slaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387977820286045513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221061983140762193.post-52477390543292231002013-11-12T20:20:00.000-05:002013-11-27T08:18:18.628-05:00Autumn<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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No season of the year stirs my blood like autumn. I welcome it's bracing climate, so invigorating after months of summer's indolence.<br />
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Among all our senses however, it is the eyes that are most richly rewarded by this climax of nature's cycle. The fiery colors of hardwood foliage here in the northeast are legendary, but at "the golden hour" when the setting sunlight raking through clear dry atmosphere transfigures those trees...<br />
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Here are more splendid celebrations of the fall season painted by Canada's Algonquin School impressionists -- also known as The Group of Seven</div>
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kw slaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387977820286045513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221061983140762193.post-72143414974248116962013-10-28T19:49:00.001-04:002013-10-28T20:50:25.193-04:00THE BUCCANEERS!Perhaps the greatest pirate picture NOT painted by Howard Pyle or N.C. Wyeth is <i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1383003466026_2231">The Buccaneers</i> by Frederick J. Waugh (1861-1940). Heir to Winslow Homer's title as dean of American marine artists, Waugh's depictions of surging coastal seas are renowned for their brilliant design, lyrical beauty and majesty. But rare are his figurative works, let alone grand action pictures like the hand-to-hand melée seen here.<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A little known example of great contemporary public art stands in the tiny <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Molly Maguire Memorial Park</span> at Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The larger-than-lifesize bronze depicts a common man bound at the wrists and ankles, hooded for execution -- he is seconds away from death by hanging. This haunting sculpture dedicated in 2010, is the work of American artist <a href="http://zenosfrudakis.com/sculptures/public/MollyMaguire.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Zenos Frudakis.</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Between the years 1877 and 1879 twenty Irish American coal miners were sent to Pennsylvania's gallows for murders they allegedly commited as members of a trade-unionist terror cabal known as "The Molly Maguires". </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Modern scholarship </span>however, <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">has raised grave doubt that the legendary conspiracy ever existed (</span><span style="color: #2288bb;"><a href="http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-3B9" target="_blank">Execution of Molly Maguires Historical Marker</a>)</span>. </div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This work bears silent and somber witness to the memory of the region's anthracite coal miners who suffered terrible injustice in their struggle to win fair wages and decent working conditions. </span></div>
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The splendid ORIENTALIST art that flourished in the <i>salons </i>of 19th century Europe has fascinated me for decades. Lately I'd become more and more intrigued by the challenge of attempting such a painting myself. This summer, a private commission gave me the opportunity to do just that.</div>
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<i>A Moorish Man-at-Arms </i>was<i> </i>commissioned by a Baltimore collector who asked me to paint a single Arabic character in the iconic style of Orientalist masters Ludwig DEUTSCH and Jean-Léon GÉRÔME. </div>
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The next step was to coordinate a photo shoot for creation of artist's reference from which to paint. Suitable costuming, weapons and props were rented or fabricated, and a model engaged. The yellow satin robe was central to my vision for the warrior's attire; part of my small costume collection, its picturesque quality impressed me the moment I spotted it in an antique shop years ago. </div>
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A university student from Philadelphia (with no prior theatrical experience) provided me with remarkably professional service as a model -- it was apparent from the first pose he struck that we'd succeeded in bringing the character which I'd known only in my imagination, to life! My camera captured images that would have to substitute for the model's presence throughout the many, many long hours of painting to come. </div>
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The setting I conceived for this scene is the outer corridor of a mosque. It is adorned with colorful and gracefully intricate enameled tile, so typical of the traditional Islamic decoration that I admire. Included in the design is a detail of the "throne" verse (2:255) -- one of the central scriptures of<i> </i>The Koran. </div>
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The ornate carpet seen on the floor is my own -- a cherished gift from a friend who purchased it at a bazaar in Kabul, he presented to me upon his return from Afghanistan.</div>
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Before the painting phase could begin, an overall plan for color was worked out based upon the special properties of the light in the scene. Keen observation from life is the only way that truly natural looking color can be determined. Photographic color is often inaccurate and unreliable. A thin <i>imprimatura </i>of burnt umber is washed over the drawing to give it a warm tone, suggestive of the final colors.</div>
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I prefer to paint the most important areas first, in this case the flesh and the yellow satin robe. Exacting work of this sort requires craftsmanship that cannot be rushed. But, even the most careful procedure isn't foolproof. </div>
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As the painting developed I felt that some aspects of the combat arms and accoutrements were unsatisfactory (note the discrepancies between preliminary drawing and final painting). Improvements were made that enhanced the design and exotic flair of the character.</div>
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Now that the figure was finished, colors for the background could be precisely keyed for harmony and convincing effects of<i> chiaroscuro </i>form and aerial perspective.<i> </i></div>
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