This is a painting by Southern California artist Glenn Zucman, entitled "Xena!". He brought it to the 3rd Southern California XenaFest, which was organized by a gaggle of Xena Fans and held, on that year, in a sport's bar in Torrance. The piece is done in Glenn's fractal portrait style that he calls "Magnadott", in metallic acrylic paints -- the major color being bronze. I was really taken by his portrait style using the chakram as a focal point (check out her right eye -- Xena's right, not your right) and bringing that geometry out through the entire image. I thought it was a great image of "the Look" and wanted to collect it immediately. Since then, I've purchased a Gabrielle portrait and a double portrait of Xena and Gab that Glenn did particularly for a later SCXF event T-shirt, a painting called "RiftWear". But this painting was the first and it began a friendship that later became a collaboration (you really must see the "fractal portrait" of Buffy: the Vampire Slayer on a 9-foot custom canvas shaped like a stake that is hanging on my living room wall). Known as Artboy by local Xena fans, you can find Glenn's work on the web (naturally) at http://www.artboy.info/
Sunday, May 14, 2006
My first X:WP original art acquisition
This is a painting by Southern California artist Glenn Zucman, entitled "Xena!". He brought it to the 3rd Southern California XenaFest, which was organized by a gaggle of Xena Fans and held, on that year, in a sport's bar in Torrance. The piece is done in Glenn's fractal portrait style that he calls "Magnadott", in metallic acrylic paints -- the major color being bronze. I was really taken by his portrait style using the chakram as a focal point (check out her right eye -- Xena's right, not your right) and bringing that geometry out through the entire image. I thought it was a great image of "the Look" and wanted to collect it immediately. Since then, I've purchased a Gabrielle portrait and a double portrait of Xena and Gab that Glenn did particularly for a later SCXF event T-shirt, a painting called "RiftWear". But this painting was the first and it began a friendship that later became a collaboration (you really must see the "fractal portrait" of Buffy: the Vampire Slayer on a 9-foot custom canvas shaped like a stake that is hanging on my living room wall). Known as Artboy by local Xena fans, you can find Glenn's work on the web (naturally) at http://www.artboy.info/
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