Bill Blizard at the easel in
his studio on Kiawah
Island, South Carolina, USA.
Amidst tables of paints and brushes,
Bill Blizard works
on into the night. Special lights are a key element in allowing him to
sustain long work sessions.
Here Bill is completing 6 panels of photo
images that have been transposed from black/white/gray life-sized versions of Greg Picollo
to Blizard’s unique color work in acrylics and chromatic pencils. These “in your
face” studies are a departure from, but in the tradition of
Andy Warhol
(or click here), Jasper Johns
(or click here),
and
Roy
Lichtenstein (or click here).
Previous to this striking
series of photopaintings, "The Visual Side of American Blues Music", Blizard has worked in
an abstract expressionism form and also done abstract studies of the
semitropical island of Kiawah in lush verdant forms.
See what the critics have to say about Blizard on the
Reviews page.
