Month: January 2010
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Jan Toorop
Jan Toorop (also known as Jean Theodoro Toorop or Johannes Theodorus Toorop) was a Dutch Symbolist painter with a wonderfully unique style. He was born in Purworedjo, Java, at a time when Java was a Dutch colony. Ne moved to the Netherlands in 1872 and studied in Delft and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Toorop’s…
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Sally Tharp
Michigan born painter Sally Tharp graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a BFA, but considers herself a self-taught painter. Her web site features several series of painting themes, including outdoor sign letters and a series of still life objects on shelves and other still life subjects. Her primary focus, however, is a wonderful…
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Black & White ImageS: The Fifth Special Collection
We are jaded by an abundance of color images. Dazzled, distracted and spoiled by color’s overt and often brash appeal, we can easily lose sight of the sublime pleasures to be had in the appreciation of black and white artwork. There is a visual charm and magic to black and white images that is difficult…
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Eric Joyner
Eric Joyner has a seemingly endless fascination with robots; not just any robots, mind you, specifically those wonderfully bizarre tin robots from the 1950’s, largely made in Japan and often constructed in inexplicable configurations; oh, and doughnuts, lots of doughnuts. Joyner was an illustrator with clients like Random House, McGraw-Hill, Levi’s, Sprint, Hasbro Warner Brothers…
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Directory of Figure Drawing Sessions
One of the best decisions I ever made as an artist after I got out of art school was to return to drawing the figure from life in regular sessions. Few practices are as challenging or rewarding for an artist as drawing the human form. The great traditions of Western art are founded on it…
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Tadahiro Uesugi (update)
The good news is that since I last wrote about the wonderfully expressive and brilliantly realized illustrations of Tadahiro Uesugi back in 2005, many more examples of his work have been added to his web site. The bad news is that the site is still in frames and as awkward as ever to navigate. The…