Year: 2010
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Southwest Art Magazine
Southwest Art is a print magazine devoted to American Western art, with a focus on contemporary artists. The magazine is a division of F+W Media, and is related to sister publications that include The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Artist and The Pastel Journal. They post a number of full articles from the magazine on their website,…
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Benoît Mandelbrot, 1924 – 2010
As I described in my post about him from 2008, Benoît Mandelbrot was not an artist, but a mathematician. His work, however, has enabled others, from dedicated computer artists to dabblers, to create the multitude of stunning images we know as ‘fractals”. In the process, he deepened our understanding of nature and the concept of…
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Bill Mayer
Bill Mayer’s wonderfully energetic and delightfully loopy illustrations are flashes of pure visual hyperbole. His intensely colorful and beautifully rendered animals, monsters and freaked-out people just about jump off the screen, eyes a-goggle and huge toothy grins as wide as their heads (if they have heads). Mayer has a website with examples of his work…
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Art in Flanders, animated view of Flemish art
Art in Flanders is an animation that serves as the introductory page for the Lukas image bank of digital reproductions of Flemish art. The image bank itself can be searched and browsed by theme, timeline, or style. The image previews are zoomable, though within a frustratingly small window. The animation, however, is larger. In it…
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Laura Barnard
UK based illustrator Laura Barnard specializes in cityscapes and architectural subjects, “the more complicated they are the better”. She works in both traditional and digital media, mixing them at times. Her fine line approach works well in her portrayal of complex jumbles of buildings, latticed with detail and texture. She has an informal line, allowing…