LONFELLOW’S CORNER
tapping into your brain originality?
Article written by Lon Levin
How original are you?
I ask myself this question quite often. I’m constantly in search of who I really am as an artist. When I started working on the “Devolving Earth” series I had no idea what I’d come up with. I made some
Lon Levin, the magazine’s editor is a working designer, illustrator, photograher and writer. He worked in the entertainment business for 25 years on hundreds of movie and TV campaigns. He has 33 published published books to his credit. His book “Treehouses” published by Globe Pequot Press in 2010 features his writing, illustration and photography
simple rules for myself and started drawing. The results of my work took at darker, tone than normal Illustrations from the “Devolving Earth” series
and somehow started to evolve into some core beliefs and views I have on life itself. This wasn’t planned. It was something that sprung to life on it’s own. I realized I had tapped into what I really wanted to say artistically. I also realized it was original though the influences of artists I have studied and seen clearly were there.
