Mark Khaisman is an artist living and working in Philadelphia. Born in Ukraine and educated in Moscow, Mark has worked as an architect, animator, iconographer, and stained glass designer. In the last few years he has pulled together the skills from all his previous artistic incarnations and has applied them to creating art that at the same time combines the disciplines of classical drawing with the use of light from glass work to create something wonderful by layering common brown packing tape over Plexiglas. This is what I mean:
The subject matter is a suit of ceremonial armor, perfect for a classic figure study, accenting detail and exercising the artist's ability to sketch in light and shadow. Mark suggests it all simply by layering tape over a backlit panel. Without the light, the figure would be a barely differentiated mass of muddy brown. With the light shining through it becomes detailed, elegant, even radiant. (to be continued . . .)
