Month: September 2012
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Mysteries of Vernacular
As much as I love art, I’m also fond of words; and I find the the origin of particular words fascinating because it shows, as in art, how we develop things and put them into use over time. I also like animation. Mysteries of Vernacular is a series of short, artfully crafted stop-motion animations explaining…
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Jacqueline Lou Skaggs
Painting on copper has a fairly long history in art, achieving a particular popularity among northern European artists in the 16th Century, and still has its contemporary proponents. Likewise the painting of miniatures also has a long history in art and is practiced by a number of contemporary artists. In the early 20th century, the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent watercolor
, John Singer Sargent. In Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and then download arrow. This is one of Sargent’s “travel sketches”, painted for his own pleasure. This man could paint.
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John Picacio (update)
John Picacio is an award winning science fiction, fantasy and horror illustrator that I first wrote about in 2006. He has been the recipient of the Locus Award, the International Horror Guild Award (x2), the Chesley Award (x5!), the World Fantasy Award and, just recently, the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist. For those not…
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Jelaine Faunce
Jelaine Faunce is a contemporary painter based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She paints her still life subjects in oil. Her compositions have a very strong sense of design, with as much attention given to the spaces around objects as the objects themselves. Her website portfolio is divided into three sections, Vintage Neon, Small Works and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan de Beijer landscape drawing
View of Doetinchem by Jan de Beijer. Hi-res image (1.2mb) here. In the Rijksmuseum. More at the bottom of the page. Direct, simple, but careful observation. Beautiful.