Month: October 2012
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Eye Candy for Today: Klimt
Death and Life, by Gistav Klimt. On Google Art Project, click on image for zoom controls. Original is in the Leopold Museum, Vienna. OK, not one of Klimt’s more lighthearted works, but beautiful nonetheless.
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Eye Candy Bonus: J.C. Leyendecker on Tumblr
A collection of J.C. Leyendecker goodies on Tumblr. Contains a couple of non-Leyendecker items, but as of this writing, basically 9 pages of Golden Age of Illustration Eye Candy and counting. See my last post on J.C. Leyendecker for links to even more posts and lots of image resources. Is there such a thing as…
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Cartoon Brew
Cartoon Brew is a widely known and respected web portal devoted to animation. Founded and edited by animation authorities Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi, the site has been a go-to source for all things animation for a large and growing audience, including your correspondent, since 2004. Cartoon Brew has just released a newly redesigned website.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Alfred Stevens genre scene
After the Ball by Alfred Stevens. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link under image and zoom or download.
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Mathew Borrett
Mathew Borrett is a Canadian illustrator and visual effects artist who works with architectural illustration and also creates wild and sometimes elaborate imagined structures, some underground, some in cityscapes. His underground structures, with their maze-like and Escher influenced explorations of divided space, may have grown out of his more traditional architectural subjects, some of which…
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Painting in Pixels, An Exhibition of Concept Art at the Riverside Art Museum
Concept art has become essential to the entertainment industry. Conceptually envisioning scenes before they’re created has evolved as a key part of a production process that often involves computer generated imagery or compositing. For those of us who love the genre — which can combine some of the best aspects of painted sketches, finished illustration,…