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"John Garvin is a painter as well as
a writer and director of video games. He was in a position to
have been able to spend time with Carl and his wife Gare' while
Carl was in the midst of his painting work. As a creative person
himself, John has brought to us an intimate, extraordinarily
detailed look into the methods and technical details of the
creation of the oil paintings the "Good Artist" created after
his retirement from comic book stories.
It's a beautiful book, worthy
of the legacy of Carl Barks. It was obviously a labor of love
every step of the way for Mr. Garvin. In each and every detail,
this fabulous book presents itself with extremely well thought
out standards. It is meticulously researched covering every
intimate aspect of Carl's painting work. We get to peek into his
studio in a way rarely possible for a reader interested in an
artist's world.
John Garvin has done a beautiful job selecting examples
for the volume, and his layout of the pages is much superior
in quality to what I'm used to encountering in books like this.
I've always considered The Carl
Bark's Library, published by Bruce Hamilton, Russ Cochran under
Another Rainbow to the be the ultimate collection of the comic
stories by Carl Barks. Now there is a work on Unca Carl's
paintings to match it in focus and high quality.
If you are interested in Carl
Bark's paintings as collectibles, get this book. If you are an
artist yourself, interested in how a professional sets up a
studio and works, get this book.
Not only is this the very best book
on the technique behind the duck-oils of one artist, it is also
one of the better written oil painting primers that sit in my
library.
This is a must have work for
all lovers of Carl Barks!
“I thought you did a very good
job of bringing Barks to life for those of us who know so little
about him...
- Geoffrey Blum (Associate Editor of the Carl Barks Library) "Your book is one of the most amazing studies of Barks I've ever read. The care and detail and the exposure of previously unknown material and your brilliant analysis of composition, layout, design, sources, and on and on have revealed to me things I had intuitively grasped but had no explicit means of articulating in the specific techniques you have developed. Your study of perspective, for example, confirms and extends much of what I've been teaching and writing about recently in terms of Carl's use of vectors of motion, eye gazes, etc., in the composition of his comics pages and the centrality of such techniques to the fundamental innards of his narratives and indeed to the ontology (the very being) of Carl's greatness. Thank you for doing this massive amount of work and opening my eyes to facets of Carl's later work in painting that had eluded me. The book is, for me at least, an inspiration that I will be returning to time after time as I grope toward trying to get hold of explanations of Carl's achievements that will forever elude total elucidation in verbal, analytical exposition." - Professor Donald Ault, author of Carl Barks: Conversations |
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