Pop Culture’s Most Eye-Catching Art Series Is Getting Its Own Book

They accidental “beauty is successful the oculus of the beholder,” but successful this case, quality is successful the publication astir the eyes. Almost 10 years ago, creator Jason Edmiston came up with a concept: he’d seizure favourite characters from popular civilization by conscionable coating their eyes. The series, called “Eyes Without a Face,” instantly took disconnected and took over the pop civilization creation scene. Two assemblage shows and implicit 400 paintings later, io9 tin exclusively uncover that “Eyes Without a Face” is getting its precise ain book.

The 288-page hardcover captures the full past of the bid frankincense acold and volition debut astatine San Diego Comic-Con. “I felt precise aboriginal connected successful the instauration of the bid that these paintings could beryllium yet beryllium compiled into a decent sized book,” Edmiston told io9. “My extremity was to elaborate successful a assortment of ways: size, theme, color, emotions, adjacent breaking a fewer rules erstwhile the taxable called for it. I truly felt that they worked champion arsenic a postulation versus a one-off image, and go much absorbing the much the taxable is expanded upon. Other than seeing collections framed connected walls, I thought that the champion mode to stock this imaginativeness was to compile them each successful a publication immoderate day. Here we are, 400 paintings later, and inactive growing.”

That’s the screen supra and, below, cheque retired six exclusive spreads from the book. You’ll announcement each leafage has not conscionable the last painting, but the sketch Edmiston does to prep for it.

“I emotion each the treble leafage spreads, due to the fact that they acceptable the format of the series’ proportions perfectly, and the paintings capable the representation plane,” Edmiston said erstwhile asked astir his favourite sections of the book. “This creates a large interaction erstwhile you crook the page, and that portion strikes you successful the face. I besides emotion the pictures of instrumentality collections and assemblage shots. It’s precise rewarding to spot that the bid that I emotion truthful overmuch to enactment connected resonated with truthful galore people. It inspires maine creatively, and financially, and allows maine to marque much of the creation that I enjoy, and that’s the extremity of immoderate artist.”

The publication volition beryllium disposable astatine jasonedmiston.com successful precocious August/early September but, exclusive to Comic-Con, Edmistion is bringing the archetypal 100 copies to his booth, fig 4617. There, for $100, you get the publication and a peculiar brand-new “Eyes Without a Face” print. We deliberation you’ll admit this guy.

© Michael Keaton’s Batman by Jason Edmiston

So if you’re successful San Diego, caput to booth 4617 to cheque retired the publication and support an oculus (get it?) connected Edmiston’s socials for much info.

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