David Trulli "Girl on the Porch" 2005
I bet people are constantly making the pun that this work is "Trulli" amazing. Fact of the matter is, I have never seen such an arts and crafts staple as scratchboarding elevated to such a lofty and dazzling level. David Trulli's skill and innovation are to be commended.

I believe the artists that he is citing in the bio on his website are the black and white works of early pulp illustrators such as Hannes Bok and the all time king of that genre Virgil Finlay...
http://www.webagora.com.br/semillon/vfinlay1.htm
...filterd through something like the anxiety of the 80's Raw Magazine? Just my guess.
Posted by: Charles Frederick Vincent | March 29, 2007 at 11:25 PM