Month: August 2012
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Jot Touch pressure sensitive stylus for iPad reviewed
Those of us who enjoy drawing and painting digitally, either with a pressure sensitive tablet and stylus on a desktop computer, or with a capacitive stylus on an iPad (sorry, Apple, fingerpainting is for kids), are often frustrated with the disconnect between the two. Most notable is the lack of pressure sensitivity on the iPad,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Man Writing a Letter, Gabriel Metsu
Gabriel Metsu (2.6mb image file), from Codart. Original is in the National Gallery of Ireland. It’s astonishing how painterly it appears close up. See my post on Gabriel Metsu.
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Joe Kubert (1926-2012)
Joe Kubert was an American comic book artist and a major figure in the history of American comics. Kubert is best known for his work for DC Comics that included definitive versions of characters like Sgt. Rock and Hawkman, as well as an interpretation of Tarzan for Dark Horse. He also created his own characters…
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Julian Onderdonk
The influence of French Impressionism spread out in waves from the original movement’s epicenter in Paris. Some of the waves beached in various parts of the U.S., where artists who later came to be known as American Impressionists began adopting elements of the style — first in the northeast, then somewhat later in California. There…
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Moebius drawing videos
In preparation for the exposition Moebius Trans-Forme at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris in 2010-2011, illustrator, comics artist and concept artist extraordinaire Jean Giraud, AKA Moebius, was filmed doing series of short drawings using digital painting software and a graphics tablet. The videos, along with other related videos, are available on DailyMotion,…
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Frederic Edwin Church on Google Art Project
The dramatic and often spectacularly large paintings of 19th century American painter Frederic Edwin Church are rich with fascinating details and beautiful handling of his subjects. In addition to painting his sweeping vistas in enough detail that you could easily take multiple sections of them as individual compositions, Church often placed small figures within a…