The Work of Pascal Milelli

I stumbled across this illustrator while doing some research on the web one day, and I was really impressed with his work. Pascal Milelli hails from Madrid, Spain, but at a young age he moved to Canada. He attended the University of Calgary, but ended up graduating from The Alberta College of Art in 1988. He started out as an illustrator for the Vancouver Sun newspaper, and he has gone on to bigger and better things. His illustrations have appeared on tea boxes in Holland, video game covers in England, annual reports, a variety of book jackets, and numerous advertising campaigns. He has illustrated an award winning children's book, Rainbow Bay (written by Stephen Eaton Hume), and he has been recognized by Communication Arts, the Society of Illustrators, and the Applied Arts.

Pascal Milelli works with oil on canvas, in a stylized realism. Using his own photos or sketches as a reference, he renders the figures and objects. The elements of real life, weather that is the way the shadows fall on the face or the details in the way the fabric falls, helps to add to the recognizably of his work. I find that the most impressive element of his work, is his use of planner structure. It is reminiscent of Uglow or Freud. Since this is the way I draw, he is a good source of inspiration. He has a wonderful sense of color and there is a great variety of it in his work. Ranging from almost monotone or two color, to the spectrum of the rainbow. His work inspires me to work on some independent projects, if only I had time....