The Colorist (Avenue of the Archons) green After years of copying comics

After years of copying comics panel by panel he worked in the commercial arts as a muralist

When most kids were glued to the television and the latest cartoons

just a little bit too inquisitive and just a little bit too obsessed by drawing and art history

allowing the work to dictate its own construction

Inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's character

The Colorist (Avenue of the Archons) green After years of copying comicsInfo Artist Bio 48 x 36 inches 2011 Oil on Canvas Bradley Platz intricate oil paintings deal with the alternating nature of worship in the modern age. Using classical symbolic imagery from old world traditions and transposing subtle hints of modernity, his work might best be described as tarnished elegance. Ever present also are certain whimsical and subtle symbols that carry the viewer through his body of work as a reader through a story, or a craft