Billy George

January 4th, 2010 admin

One of the things that appealed to me right away when I browsed through the (still in progress) portfolio site for concept artist and designer Billy George was the nicely otherworldly color schemes he worked with in his environment paintings for Spacetime’s Blackstar game project (image above, top). He used palettes of seemingly not-of-this-Earth colors, but made them nicely consistent within themselves. I was then impressed with his subtle and restrained…


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