Month: August 2011
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Sketching St. Louis – Michael Anderson
Sketching St. Louis is a sketchblog about just that. Artist and illustrator Michael Anderson found his inspiration for the blog from a workshop he led in 2009 called Sketching St Louis, in which he carried forward the approach found in the Urban Sketchers blog. Anderson’s sketches of various subjects in and around St. Louis are…
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Justin Gerard and Jeremy Enecio at Gallery Nucleus
Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California has two new shows that showcase the work of Justin Gerard, who I featured in 2009, and Jeremy Enecio, who I wrote about in 2010. St. George and the Dragon by Justin Gerard (gallery of works here) and Embodiments by Jeremy Enecio (gallery of works here) run until August 29,…
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18th Century pastel portraits at the Met
Pastel is a fascinating medium, the use of which crosses the boundaries of what we think of as drawing and painting, and calls into question how we define and distinguish the two. In an exhibition currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, we can see pastel displaying its qualities that bring it close…
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Ken Reid’s World Wide Weirdies
Ken Reid was a British comics artist who worked in newspaper comics in the middle of the 20th Century and later moved into working for comic books, notably for The Beano. He is probably best remembered now for his later series of comically horror-themed posters called World Wide Weirdies that ran in a publication called…
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The Chemistry of Oil Painting on Symbiartic
Artist and illustrator Glenton Mellow, who writes the Flying Trilobite blog, also co-authors a new blog for Scientific American called Symbiartic, along with scientific illustrator Kalliopi Monoyios. The tagline for Symbiartic is “The art of science and the science of art”, and topics range freely across that nebulous and fascinating intersection. In a recent post…
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Antoino Gaudi documentary
It is often said that architecture is a form of sculpture. At its worst, this means that many of our cities are chock-a-block with horribly soulless and mind-numbingly boring modernist sculpture that we would be hard pressed to think of as art. On the other hand, perhaps the most obvious and beautiful manifestation of this…