震撼一贴----国外经典爬虫油画展（1）

以下将刊出的内容是国外顶尖高手，对各类爬虫的油画、素描等等，捕捉了爬虫进食、生活、形态等各方面，用写实或浪漫或夸张或写意等手段给我们描述了一个我们从未见到过的爬虫世界。
            
            每当我看到这些画总能把我拉回到充满幻想和好奇的童年时代。每看一次，都能让我有莫名的感动！

              这些作品都积聚了创作者的心血和汗水，本来每个创作者都有简介，和他本人创作历程。以及对此画的创作经历。名称以及对该画的描述和鉴赏等等。但在这里我为了尊重创作者的心血！把全部的人员名单在本画之前排列出来，以表达对他们的敬意！

             同时由于这些画都是第一次出现在中国网站上，请大家不要转载！如果要的话，也请只转该贴的连接！请朋友们到《两江水族论坛》来观帖！
            
             更不要把这些画拿去做任何的商业用途！谢谢！

             为了杜绝乱转贴，本贴画展示部分只有发贴在200以上的朋友才能观看！请谅解！

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Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen

Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen has brought a singular vitality to wildlife art. Uncompromisingly detailed and artfully composed, his work is at once vivid and startling, depicting seldom-illustrated species engaged in life's struggles -- alive. To view his work is to be pulled into a drama and diversity of life. The artists explains, his aim is to "say as much as I can about how (an animal) lives and interacts with its environment and with other organisms."
  
Since he was a child growing up in Emigration Canyon, east of Salt Lake City, Brest van Kempen has been a student of nature. He spent his youth exploring untracked back country, drawing, studying and collecting the native fauna. As an adult his travels have taken him around the globe: throughout the Americas as well as Africa and Asia, studying the ecology of these regions.
  
Brest van Kempen has exhibited his work throughout the world and earned numerous awards in the United States, including 'Best of Show' at the South Eastern Wildlife Expo in Charleston, SC (1995) and the Pacific Rim Wildlife Art Show in Seattle, WA (1995 and 1998), and the Arts for the Parks Wildlife Award (1992). The Society of Animal Artists bestowed on him their highest honor, the 'Award of Excellence' three times, in 1994, 1996 and 1997. In 1995 USART magazine named him a 'Rising Star' for that year, and both Wildlife Art Magazine and the Florida Wildlife Art Expo included him in their lists of 'Artists for the New Millennium."

His work has been the subject of dozens of articles appearing in periodicals in North America, Europe and Asia. The public collections that own his works include the Springville Art Museum, Springville, UT; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; World Center for Birds of Prey, Boise, ID; and Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT.

John Agnew

John N. Agnew grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and as a young employee of the Dayton Museum of Natural History, had dreams of a career in herpetology. As his artistic talents were recognized, John was switched from herpetology to the exhibits department. This developed into a career as a museum artist, scientific illustrator and exhibit designer, and now as an award-winning artist specializing in fine natural history art. For the last twenty years he has painted murals, designed exhibits and produced illustrations for museums, zoos and nature centers around the country and as far away as Moscow, Russia.

John's work as a scientific illustrator has engendered a deep respect for accuracy and skill, and combined with his artistic vision, enables him to create incredibly realistic and intimate views of seldom seen creatures. His love of reptiles has lead him to travels in the American deserts and wetlands, and Central American tropical forests. These landscapes provide dramatic backdrops for his paintings of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and even a token mammal or two.

In 1998 he was juried into the Society of Animal Artists, and his work has toured with their annual show ever since. He has also had works selected for the annual Arts For the Parks show, sponsored by the National Parks Academy of the Arts, in 1998, 1999, and 2000. Recent projects include a mural of dinosaurs and birds for the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina. He has just finished work on a book titled "Painting The Secret World of Nature," which will reveal his painting techniques and will feature many of his paintings. It is scheduled to be published in the spring of 2001 by North Light Books.

Ed Acuńa

Ed Acuńa, originally from California, spent his childhood exploring the hills of East Lost Angeles and the Rio Hondo River. This early exposure to nature fostered his appreciation for wildlife, especially reptiles. Ed has spent many hours in the field observing herpetofauna.
  
An accomplished artist and illustrator, Acuńa graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. He has spent the last 25 years developing his style as a freelance commercial artist illustrating a number of book covers, magazines and posters. Acuna is now combining his passion for herpetology with his vast experience as an artist to create paintings of North American snakes.

William B. Montgomery

Artist William B. Montgomery is known in the international herpetological community for his reptile etchings and lithographs that combine exact scientific depiction with the animal抯 innate sensuous beauty. Based on the tradition of the early natural history engravings, these scientifically accurate, yet artistically exquisite etchings and lithographs have been commissioned for a variety of publications. These works include a Canebrake Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus atricaudatus) for Biology of the Pitvipers (Selva, 1992); a Banded Rock Rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus klauberi) for the latest reprint of Klauber抯 monumental work, Rattlesnakes (University of California Press, 1997); and a European adder (Vipera b. berus) for the upcoming Biology of the Vipers (Biological Sciences Press).
  
All of Montgomery抯 prints are hand-pulled etchings and lithographs on high quality, acid-free paper. These are not reproductions; the images are drawn directly onto copper plates or lithographic stones so each of the hand-pulled prints is considered an original. Hand colored prints are individually colored by the artist using high quality, light fast watercolors.
  
Born and raised in the piney woods of East Texas, Montgomery studied art at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of New Mexico. He currently lives east of Austin on 17 acres of land with his wife, several dogs, a few chickens and some reptiles. A full time painter and printmaker, he occasionally takes time out from his studio in the historic section of Elgin to search out and photograph reptiles and amphibians in the U.S., Mexico, Central and South America, Europe and Asia.

Sam “Scălz” Garcia, Jr.

Born in Yokosuka, Japan in 1973, Sam Garcia Jr. is a young and talented wildlife artist destined for greatness. His works have been featured in numerous publications and are in over 60 private collections worldwide.
  
Garcia began his art career as an illustrator when he was only 14! He began accepting commissions shortly afterward and soon began to focus on his incredible accuracy at depicting wildlife and nature. By the age of 19, he was frequently winning art competitions and showing in small galleries in the Southern California area. His first out of state experience was in Orlando, Florida where he was accepted with open arms. His collection of reptile and amphibian art was given great reviews by local gallery aficionados and collectors and several were purchased.
  
By the age of 21, Garcia had broadened his scope of subject matter to include gamefish and Ancient civilizations, as well as fantasy art. His choice of mediums also expanded as he developed his skill with oil, watercolor, pastel, pen and ink, gouache and acrylic/mixed media.
  
During his mid-twenties, Garcia’s fascination for aquaria and vivaria led him astray from his art career. He managed several large aquarium shops and a fish breeding facility during that time and then, in 1998, after a four-year hiatus from studio fine art, he opened a gallery in conjunction with a marine aquarium retailer. The economy was tough and the gallery closed after only six months. Fortunately, Garcia’s passion to recreate nature in his artwork was reignited.
  
Today, Garcia is the owner of a new nature and wildlife art business “The Creative Nature” based in San Diego, California, which he plans to expand to include a gallery and retail store. He is also one of the top design specialists and framers for a large corporate framing company: Definitely a complement to his artistic talent! An avid diver and naturalist, he is also constantly exposing himself to new frontiers and exploring new ideas for his fine art!
  
Garcia is known in the art industry as “Scalz”, attributed to his particular interest for reptiles and fish. In addition to those subjects, he frequently paints and draws amphibians, birds, insects, exotic flora, tropical rain forest creatures, and reef scenery. Garcia plans to publish several of his works as limited editions in 2003 and is currently working on writing and illustrating several books.

Mark Kelso

Mark has studied intensively in dance, voice, theatre, martial arts, and competitive baton twirling. He has over 700 awards for modeling, dance, and baton competitions, including more than thirty world championship titles. Mark majored in painting at John Herron School of Art in the United States where he began doing social, philosophical, and environmentally oriented work in his senior year. This nature/civilization content in his work was translated to wildlife and landscape subject matter the following year, and has remained his sole subject matter since 1993.
  
"I seem to be developing a reputation for painting animals and situations that are frequently avoided by other wildlife artists. The life and death cycle, and interspecies confrontations have become recurring themes in my work, with the underlying symbols of civilized man's attempt at separation from the natural world. I'm interested in the drama of life, be it beauty, violence, oddity, or whatever. What I'm trying to say is there is an extraordinary abundance of life forms out there all interacting with each other, all of them important, all of them beautiful, and we are a part of that event called nature...not separate or above it." - Mark Kelso

David Frank-Wiggs




David was born in the English Countryside town of Ilford, in the English county of Essex. From a young age, he collected any animal he could find. "The first animal I found was a Common Newt. I'd lifted up a lot of stones in our garden... and then suddenly 'bang' there was this creature! And it wasn't a toy...it moved on its own!" "I couldnt believe it, and neither could my parents, I was running everywhere! They had no idea this thing was even living in their garden!" "A whole lot of stones got lifted after that- and I got quite a reputation for shifting stuff".
  
Whilst in the Boy Scouts, David entered a collage' and drawing Competition for 9 year olds, and to his amazement came first in both. Then he exhibited his work for sale at the school fair, and sold quite a few pieces, which provided some useful pocket money. "When I left school I tried a number of different jobs, winding up tending the 'Garden of England' by working for the forestry commission as a trainee forester." I used to drive a 'Dumper Truck' at a white-knuckle speed of 3 miles an hour, through the forest, then I'd rake the greens on all 18 holes of the private Golf course. It was bitterly cold in winter. I was 16, and everyone else I worked with had served in the last two great wars, was about 70 or 201 (depending on when you asked) with a 'blue-grass-style' beard down to their navel, some pretended lamely that they couldnt remember but said the oldest foresters were buried up on the frosty hills, it was quite a weird experience" "But I was working on a plan to escape!"" I had worked up quite a few pieces during this time, and managed to get excepted on to a Degree course purely on the work in my portfolion."
  
  In 1983, David Wiggs graduated from Dyfed College of Art, Wales, England, with a Degree In Wildlife Illustration. "Pointing to one of my drawings in the degree show "the examiner said to me, 'This is the best drawing in the whole show...' and he pointed out that I could also consider becoming a picture strip artist! At the time I thought this was rather confusing advice.. but since, these combined attributes became quite useful. David then worked variously for a variety of publishing houses, design consultants, and advertising agencies, before embarking on a series of sell-out one-man shows.
  
Today, as a herpetoculturist, Dave presides over an ever expanding collection which includes several species of rare Reptiles and amphibians, including superb examples of Rhacodactylus and P. asperses, and he is a keen supporter of those who contribute to the conservation of endangered species, maintaining regular contact with friends around the world who have been an inspiration, and encouragement, like Philip De Vosjoli, and Tim Tytle, amongst others.

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