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Christopher Balaskas is an illustrator who loves to mix landscape art with fantasy. Many pieces of art are focused on a specific person or object; Balaskas focuses all of his energies into creating landscapes with insane depth and assiduity. These energies are also focused into contemporary themes, for example in this piece "Crossing the Hardened Desert" I believe that is a stormtrooper from Star Wars.
His work really sparked my interest, especially after I had taken the Chinese Brush Art class here at UH this past fall. He takes the ideas from that class of portraying feelings that one gets from sheer grandeur of the landscape - especially since the Chinese landscapes would be painted on enormous canvases - and applies them to modern, digital art, which I have always been interested in becoming skilled at. In addition, each of Balaskas' landscapes easily tells not just a theme but a story, something I could definitely work on.
Post by Kevin Hu
Christopher Balaskas is an illustrator who loves to mix landscape art with fantasy. Many pieces of art are focused on a specific person or object; Balaskas focuses all of his energies into creating landscapes with insane depth and assiduity. These energies are also focused into contemporary themes, for example in this piece "Crossing the Hardened Desert" I believe that is a stormtrooper from Star Wars.
His work really sparked my interest, especially after I had taken the Chinese Brush Art class here at UH this past fall. He takes the ideas from that class of portraying feelings that one gets from sheer grandeur of the landscape - especially since the Chinese landscapes would be painted on enormous canvases - and applies them to modern, digital art, which I have always been interested in becoming skilled at. In addition, each of Balaskas' landscapes easily tells not just a theme but a story, something I could definitely work on.
Post by Kevin Hu