Educational Art Archives: Accurate and Realistic Illustrations in a wide variety of art media dealing with Literature, Myth and Legend, and History... with lots of Classic Fairy Tales and Fantasy Art for the young at heart. |
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Educational Art Suitable for all ages... With a background in traditional media including oil paintings, pastel paintings and colored pencil drawings, Howard David Johnson embraces leading edge digital media in the creation of his depictions of Great Literature, Folklore, Mythology, Legends, Religion, Fantasy and Heroic History... |
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"The Siege of the Alamo" (c) 2004 Howard David Johnson |
"The Sword of Lancelot" (c) 2006 Howard David Johnson |
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"A Midsummer night's Dream" (c) 2006 Howard David Johnson
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"Queen Cinderella" (c) 2007 Howard David Johnson
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The Johnson Educational Art Archives
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Howard David Johnson, American Illustrator & Photographer
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Johnson, (Howard) David (September 2, 1954- present day) A United States Illustrator and Painter. His scientific and realistic approach to illustrating history, folklore and mythology brought him international acclaim after his King Arthur Illustrations were exhibited in The British Museum in 1996. Johnson has illustrated A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, The Legends of King Arthur by Sir James Knowles and The Mabinogion by Lady Charlotte Guest and many other books. He has done illustrations for books, magazines, games, motion pictures, television programs and computer software for The National Geographic Society, The University of Cambridge and The University of Texas, Adobe Photoshop, PBS television, Doubleday, Universal Studios and Paramount Studios among others. His illustrations for books like "Fairies 101" have appeared in every major bookstore in America and his works have been published in textbooks and appeared in libraries worldwide. Johnson was born in was born in Germany, the son of an American Career Air Force officer and College Professor and visited the great museums of Europe as a boy and fell in love with traditional art, especially the Pre-Raphaelites, whom he imitated the most. |
| He attended the University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Art
and began his career working as a scientific illustrator for their School
of Paleontology reconstructing dinosaurs in 1974. It was under their
tutelage that he developed his research methods for his scientific
approach to getting the details right for his historically accurate
illustrations.
During his long career, Johnson has worked in many media including Oil Paintings, Acrylics, Colored Pencils, Graphite, Chalk & Oil Pastels, Photography, Watercolors, Inks, Scratchboard, Gouache, Digital Artistry and Mixed media. As an outspoken proponent of mechanical aids to visual art his legal use of computers and other mechanical aids like photography made him a very controversial figure around the turn of the millennia. He has also experimented with many styles but is generally characterized as a Symbolist or belated Pre-Raphaelite because of his preference to paint mythical, religious, and historical subjects. Sentimentality regarding values like innocence, naturalness and beauty, as well as minute detail and bright color characterize most of his works. He founded the Brandywine School of Illustrative Art in 1996 because many 20th century realistic artists were trained in an educational system openly hostile or dismissive to Classical realistic painting and art tradition and were only taught the tenets of Abstraction and Expressionism. At the time of this writing in 2008 he and his staff have trained more than 1,000 students in realistic art techniques in nearly every known medium from Traditional oil painting to Adobe Photoshop (TM) Software.
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"Brigit, Gaelic goddess of Poetry" (c) 2008 Howard David Johnson |
"Helen of Troy" (c) 2004 Howard David Johnson |
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