There are many boxes in my collection, almost thousand, this is one of the most rare, one from the extint Lodela, depicting a De Havillnad Vampire of the Mexican Air Force, the artist is Rivera (no relation with Diego Rivera), the painting, simple, and with very vivid colours is from a plane in service in the sixties, in the "Avocado" scheme, the colour is a mexican colour used in this same era, named Verde Poste (Post green), a mineral based colour close to the USMC green.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Black Cat PBY-5 Catalina, Revell
A close depiction of Reality, the same words that move the gratest Rennaisance artists, is the central objetive of the Boxart, at least in the Model making world, many paintings are a close match of colours, proportions, numbers and terrains. Norn in the XX century, in the begginings with primitive one colour printing (perpetuated behind the Iron courtain until the 80's), until the Revell's hipperealist art in the seventies, paasing throught the simplistics photos of the Ceji era.
It's my opinion, that the Boxart's best times are between the sixties and the seventies, wint hands like Steel, Hinomatsu and Knight, not only technically perfect, as any classical painting, but also with a strong emotion, in the same way that Ucello or Caravaggio, I almost can smell the burning planes in the foreground of a perfect composition, with the plane in the perfecto position. Perfectly harmonized, by example, a Black PBY-5 in a black ocean, ina a black sky, and even all illuminated in a clear night composition.
This is one of my favorites, a Black Cat¡s Catalina, flying at night in a combat scene, a usual in this art, is not signed.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Welcome to the Boxart's Blog
Welcome my friends to my new Blog, entirelly dedicated to the Boxart, in a more exact words, the modelling Boxart, one of the Applied Arts used to commercialize the plastic models kits. In many ways heirs of the classical painting, using the same tecnics, the same materials and a reality close depiction, with a touch om emotion, the Boxart has their own great artists, many of them now forgotten, in the goal of this site, to render the appopiate honour to this artists and their work.
You friend Antony Teller proudly presente this new Blog.
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