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The origins of clowns can be traced back to the Circus Maximus of Rome. Clowns started as Greek and Roman mimes and were usually bald headed padded, stupid fools.

The Modern circus began around 1768 and the first circus clowns appeared at Phillip Astley's. Some early clowns were Arlecchino, Pierrot and Harlequin.

Joey Grimaldi originated the white-faced tradition and the baggy dress. Large shoes and sloppy manners were made popular by Auguste in the 1860s.

The sad faced Emmett Kelly is perhaps the most well known modern day clown.

Since their beginnings centuries ago, clowns through their buffoonery and ridiculously exaggerated antics have always brought joy into our hearts.

Emmet Kelly

Emmet Kelly

The YOYO a crayon work by RC Westerholm

#1 in the Clown Series

clowns as 6 x 9 art cards with clown history printed on back


design on cloth	sweat shirt design on cloth


packaging design for GS Teja Ltd.	© GS Teja Ltd.

design - Bob Westerholm

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth .... Pablo Picasso

	The The artist - R.C. Westerholm was born and raised in Vancouver and is intimately familiar with the city. He attended the old Vancouver School of Art and is known for his finely detailed pen and ink drawings of Vancouver area scenes.
a personal selection of interesting buildings in Vancouver	Ltd Ed. Print and art card design by Bob Westerholm - published by Masalla Galleries Graphics

Lettering, business card, brochure and stationary designs;


design for importer's stationary © Bazaar Marrakech


		© Andalucia Imports Inc
	© Great Canadian Gourmet ltd.	© Father and Son Apparel Ltd. © Mañana Galleria Ltd.

designs by Bob Westerholm


designs on cloth for sweat shirts		© RC Westerholm

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. - Salvador Dali


design by Bob Westerholm

brochure design for Passport Travel © Passport Travel Ltd.

a favorite artist - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Expectations - 1885 oil on panel

Alma-Tadema's superb appreciation of light makes everything he painted very special and worthy of long consideration by other artists. His composition often defies whatever 'rules' there are and leads to many questions. He sometimes surprises with converging lines and choice of colour.

Look for the painting 'Unconscious Rivals' on the CGFA site to see what I mean.

You can view more of Sir Lawrence's work on the site and browse hundreds of the other great artists of the world as well. http://cgfa.dotsrc.org/alma/index.html

Of course, art is where you find it.
Even a 6 year old's impression of a fairy angel with gossamer wings is art as it pleases the eye . . .

Jordan's Crystal Fairy

with permission from the artist

New art form?

The New York Times recently had an article that supposed the computer adventure series, 'Myst', had created a new art form. We suggest that the art form was established way back in the forties by Walt Disney with such productions as Snow White, Fantasia and Pinocchio. Do the artists who envision the modern computer games sneak back into history for a peak at inspiration? We think so. Take a look at an enchanting film cel for Pinocchio - and compare it with the screen shot from URU, from the wonderful concept of the Myst series for computer.


from Steamboat Willie in 1928 ...		to modern Mickey ...		Walt Disney was doing it for Pinocchio in 1940

The only limit to art is imagination ...

Myst computer adventure from URU - 2003 - similarities to Pinocchio?

Victor Navone's groundbreaking 1999 computer animation

I Will Survive - sung by Gloria Gaynor
written by Dino Fekaris & Freddie Perren - © 1978 Polygram Records, INC.

In private life, clowns are often thoughtful, lonely and shy. But a transformation takes place with the first smear of greasepaint and as the final adjustment of the costume is made the character change is complete and we see joviality and merriment. Sometimes the artist too is transformed at the first smear of crayon to paper or oil to canvas.


The Bolo Bat		Jacks		Hopscotch

© RC Westerholm Ltd. © Masalla Galleries Graphics

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating .... Salvador Dali

The Western Breeze at Steveston pen and Ink and watercolour

What the truly great artists can do with so few lines blows my mind ....

Matisse - Young Girl

Picasso - The Lovers

Henri Matisse - Young Girl Arranging Her Hair - 1934

Pablo Picasso - the Lovers - 1923

Here Henri has depicted a young woman who has hope and anticipation while only gliding his pencil across the paper with so little effort.

Notice that Picasso has no need of colour in their faces, he has captured their tender emotion with his pencil.

... there are the deft pen strokes of Rembrandt van Rijn - The Three Crosses - 1653

and then there is

BOB ART

styrofoam is so fun to draw on

sSome links to investigate ....

The fabulous indexed searchable collection of art at CFGA - http://cgfa.dotsrc.org/index.html

Progressive art collection website - http://www.progressiveart.com/index.shtml

Fundació Gala - official Salvador Dali - http://www.salvador-dali.org/en_index.html

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - browse here - http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

View a vast collection of pin-up, fantasy and comic art - http://www.imagenetion.com/

Walt Disney art cells - http://www.animationartgallery.com/artpages/disneyart.html

Myst Worlds the games and the art - http://www.mystworlds.com/us/index.php

Many aspects of good design - http://www.chi-athenaeum.org/gdesign/gdesign0.htm

the old poster art was great but
computers changed everything

original artwork © RC Westerholm no art on this page or website is in public domain, copying or reproduction requires legal written permission



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