Month: June 2010
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Tuomas Korpi
Tuomas Korpi is a Finnish illustrator and matt painter who, like many in his field, paints digitally in Photoshop. His site has little or no biographical information, but has a number of his paintings arranged into genres. I found the work most interesting in the Illustrations section, which includes a variety of subjects including digital…
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Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, is best known for his grand, sweeping views of his home city of Venice, intricately detailed and striking in their architectural fidelity. Most famous are his depictions of large scale public events, like A Regatta on the Grand Canal (image above, top, with detail, second down). Less well known,…
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Jim Denevan
Making lines in sand or earth with a stick is probably the oldest form of drawing practiced by human beings; followed, perhaps, by using a burned stick to make marks on rocks (charcoal drawing!). Many of us (myself certainly included) still love to make drawings in semi-wet sand at the shoreline; making exquisitely brief marks…
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Olivia Bouler
Eleven year old Olivia Bouler, upset about the ongoing industrial/ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, wanted to help in some way. An aspiring ornithologist, she wrote to the Audubon Society, pointing out that she is a “decent drawer” and asking if it was possible to sell some of her bird images to help raise…
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Noli Novak
In drawing, particularly pen and ink drawing, stipple refers to the painstaking technique of creating tones by laying down areas of dots, the density of which creates areas of varying tone. It’s almost a handmade analog to the pre-printing screening of photographs, though the technique long preceded photography. Stipple was important to classic illustrators, such…
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Vintage National Parks Posters
National Geographic has posted a selection of WPA sponsored Great Depression era posters created as promotions for the nation’s national parks. There are no artist credits, and the selection is small, but the posters are graphically beautiful. You can see more of these, though reproduced much smaller, on the Ranger Doug’s site, where they are…