Month: February 2010
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The Color Wheel on Gurney Journey
Painter and illustrator James Gurney, who I recently profiled here, is currently writing a series of fascinating posts on his blog, Gurney Journey, about The Color Wheel. In them he is exploring questions that are not raised often enough, including questioning the concept of exactly what is a primary color, and how might primary colors…
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Artist Monograms and Signatures
An important but often overlooked aspect of creating a finished painting or drawing is the application of a signature by the artist. Simultaneously claiming authorship and declaring the work finished, signatures are a source of pride to some artists, and a necessary chore to others. Prized by collectors, to whom attribution is often more important…
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Stephen Scott Young
Stephen Scott Young is a renowned contemporary watercolorist and etcher whose works are in major collections and museums. Young was born in Hawaii, moved to Florida with his family at the age of 14, and studied printmaking at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota. His watercolor technique, which frequently makes use of drybrush, is…
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Ivan Bilibin (update)
From time to time, I like to check back on artists I’ve written about a few years ago and see what new resources for their work have appeared on the constantly expanding internet since I last wrote about them. I took a look this morning at sources for Ivan Bilibin, a terrific Russian illustrator that…
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Henri Le Sidaner
French painter and pastel artist Henri Le Sidaner (Eugéne Augustin) began academic training at the l’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, briefly studying under Alexandre Cabanel, but soon rejected that pursuit in favor a fascination with the paths into broken color and light being blazed by the Impressionists. Le Sidaner is best known as an Intimist…
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Ruth Sanderson
Ruth Sanderson is an illustrator with a long career of creating illustrations for children’s books, fairy tales and fantasy. Her book illustrations have garnered multiple awards, including her own original fairy tale, The Enchanted Wood. She cites as her influences American illustrators like Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth and Norman Rockwell, along with the English Pre-Raphaelite…