Sunday, December 20, 2009


Art Painting--Sydney Opera House. Artist: Martin Plant©2009
my catalog number 4384.

I recently saw a picture of the Sydney Opera House and I wanted to show it in a different version from the one usually seen. I wanted to give the impression of "Music" and "Sound" and to do this I decided to use vibrant colors and high contrast instead of the mauve color of the opera house as we know it.

I began the drawing in the "eye-balling" technique. Artists know what I mean by this. It's a slow, laborious artist's method to draw something when you don't want to use rulers or other mechanical devices. And I don't. After about an hour of this I stopped for a break.When I returned, I made more "eye-balling" corrections until the drawing looked right.(And people think becoming an artist is just "ten easy lessons" Ha!) Then I added a sailboat to show that the Sydney Opera House was set on an island. After that came lots of decisions on which color combinations to use.

So here it is, The Sydney Opera House. Maestro, music please.

Want to use this picture in your publication? Please contact me at my email address below for price information.


Need a freelance artist for your publication, magazine, book, circular, posters, greeting cards, etc? You can contact me below and also see other samples of my work from my website.
Martin Plant: Illustrator , Fine Artist, Cartoonist
Magazine illustrations and book cover art
portraits,surreals,still lifes.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

art painting--William Shakespeare


William Shakespeare ©Martin Plant2009

art painting--William Shakespeare. Artist: Martin Plant. my catalog no. 4284

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William Shakespeare. Playwright. ©Martin Plant

During Shakespeare's lifetime, he was a working playwright. Fortunately for him, his stuff was good and his work caught on early. His plays sold out to packed houses. But after a while, of course, ticket sales would dwindle. The solution was to write another play. This Shakespeare did, hoping his next play too would be popular with the public, and that it would continue to earn him a living. After all, he was a working stiff, like most of us.

What Shakespeare never realized was that his plays were not only popular, but that they would live on long after he was gone. He simply thought that his plays would be performed , run their course, and then be forgotten, as happened to many other playwrights. Instead, his work is being performed these five hundred years now. You can see his plays in the movies, on Broadway, at summer-stock, in colleges, at Shakespeare In The Park, and countless other venues. Not bad for a working stiff playwright.

Need a freelance artist for your publication, magazine, book, circular, posters, greeting cards, etc? You can contact me below and also see other samples of my work from my website.
Martin Plant: Illustrator , Fine Artist, Cartoonist
Magazine illustrations and book cover art
portraits,surreals,still lifes.
jpesan at yahoo dot com
my art website bcoreyman.googlepages.com
my art blogsite artofmartinplant.blogspot.com













Saturday, May 9, 2009

calendar publisher wanted

calendar publisher wanted



I am a freelance illustrator looking for a publisher who does calendars. You can see a complete 12 picture set for a calendar which I did. See the pictures at the website below:

http://bcoreyman.googlepages.com/artviews



If you want to publish this, please contact me for details.



Artist: Martin Plant



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Need a freelance artist for your publication, magazine, book, circular, posters, greeting cards, etc? You can contact me below and also see other samples of my work from my website.-- Martin Plant: Illustrator , Fine Artist, CartoonistMagazine illustrations and book cover artportraits,surreals,still lifes.
bcoreyman at gmail dot com
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artofmartinplant.blogspot.com

Friday, March 13, 2009

art painting--Coke Bottle

Coke bottle with lillies.
This picture is one of a series of calendar art picures I am working on.
You can see other calendar art pictures by visiting my website and clicking on artviews.



Artist: Martin Plant .My catalog number 4038.


Need a freelance artist for your publication, magazine, book, circular, posters, greeting cards, etc? You can contact me below and also see other samples of my work from my website.-- Martin Plant: Illustrator , Fine Artist, Cartoonist.
Magazine illustrations and book cover art,
portraits,surreals,still lifes.

bcoreyman at gmail dot com

http://bcoreyman.googlepages.com
artofmartinplant.blogspot.com






Friday, February 27, 2009

The most successful artist of our time ?


The most successful artist of our time ?


Here's a Wiki about the artist Thomas Kincaid. If you're an artist, give a thought to selling your work. If you don't sell your work then it just might wind up in the garbage--after you're gone.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kincaid

Need a freelance artist for your publication, magazine, book, circular, posters, greeting cards, etc? You can contact me below and also see other samples of my work from my website.-- Martin Plant: Illustrator , Fine Artist, CartoonistMagazine illustrations and book cover artportraits,surreals,still lifes. bcoreyman at gmail dot com

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