Illustrative Images by Kim Fujiwara
Kim Fujiwara, our featured artist today, originally worked as an illustrator and is now a painter in his artistic practice. Kim’s artistic prowess certainly shows in his figurative paintings. His illustrative images are beautifully rendered, and I think they’d be equally at home in an art gallery or on the covers of science fiction or fantasy novels.
Kim paints a variety of subjects, including historical scenes depicting the American old west, landscapes, still life, and portraits of models. The artist’s oil painted portraits of various celebrities and personal friends are clean and soft with incredible attention to detail. On Kim’s online portfolio the artist also shows some pencil sketches and watercolour portraits. These works have a different feel to them, but are just as skillfully created. It’s nice to see an artist working in different mediums, and the change in aesthetic qualities that each different medium affords.
