Month: December 2012
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Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis
I’ve written before about my admiration for the classic instructional books by the early to mid 20th century American illustrator Andrew Loomis. In particular I’ve enthusiastically reviewed two of the superb new editions from Titan Books of his too long out of print classics, Figure Drawing for All it’s Worth and Drawing the Head and…
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Painting en Plein Air: Resolving the Landscape, Thomas Kegler
Thomas Kegler is a Western New York State painter and senior member of the Hudson River Fellowship who was the subject of a Lines and Colors post in October of this year. In addition to the instructional materials and short videos on his website, Kegler demonstrates his painting techniques in an “instructional documentary” titled Painting…
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The Story of British Art on The Guardian
While not exactly fulfilling its title, The Story of British Art is nonetheless an interesting series of articles, accompanied by an image slideshow, on artists from (or related to) British history by Guardian art writer Jonathan Jones. While I don’t always see eye to eye with Jones, I always find his articles worth reading, and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Johannes Bosboom interior
The Interior of the Bakenesserkerk, Haarlem, Johannes Bosboom. In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom controls to right of the image.
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Nadezhda Illarionova
I came across the wonderfully “Grimm” illustrations of Russian illustrator and designer Nadezhda Illarionova in a number of blog posts, as well as mentions on magazine sites. Outside of a Flickr set, I can find little that seems like an official web presence, and almost no background information. Her work displays a beautiful use of…
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Women and cats Flickr set
In the apparent dichotomy of “dog people” and “cat people”, I’m in the latter camp. Dogs can be nice enough, but they always seem a bit too eager to be what humans want them to be. Cats are to me more fascinating. Having a cat as a pet seems more like sharing your house with…