Bill does Inktober
Selections of scratchboard portraits from Bill Russell’s 2019 Inktober series
Bill Russell Celebrates Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Bill Russell’s portrait of poet and social activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
Jazz Portrait Folio by Bill Russell
This Jazz Portraits Folio of six jazz musician portraits by illustrator Bill Russell were created digitally on an Apple iPad Pro using the Procreate drawing app. Depicted in these prints are Brazilian instrumentalist Hermento Pascoal, cellist Zoe Keating, jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran, eclectic bandleader Sun Ra, jazz vocalist Gregory Porter and upright and electric bass player Esperanza Spalding. They were printed with archival pigment-based inks on Epson Velvet Fine Art acid-free paper and packaged in a limited edition of 12 at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California. Learn more here. Bill also created animations found here.
Commissioned Art by Maurice Vellekoop
We hope everyone had a safe and happy long weekend. Here’s a new piece of commissioned art by Maurice Vellekoop.
Maurice’s Merry Christmas Cards, 2014.
This year, Maurice’s Christmas cards are striking reinterpretations of Renaissance portraits.
Check out his blog for the full collection:Â http://www.mauricevellekoop.com/blog/
Historical Portraiture
New scratchboard portraits by Bill Russell:
John Muir, Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the U.S.
John Adams was the second president of the United States.