Month: January 2013
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Word as Image, Ji Lee
Ji Lee is a designer and illustrator, born in Korea, raised in Brazil and currently living and working in New York. Inspired by an art school typography class assignment almost twenty years ago, Lee has been since then working with the concept of creating images out of the letterforms of words that depict something of…
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Daniel Danger
Daniel Danger is an illustrator and printmaker based in New England. His ink and monochromatic approach gives his works a strong graphic sensibility, and a wonderfully spooky atmosphere, suggestive and foreboding. This is heightened by his enigmatic titles. (Roll over the images on the homepage/gallery of his website for titles.) Danger titles his website “Tiny…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leighton’s Garden of the Hesperides
The Garden of the Hesperides, Frederic Leighton, large version here. Original is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool. See my post on Frederic Lord Leighton.
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Takuma Kaneko
Takuma Kaneko is a Japanese artist who studied art in the U.S. and Europe. As far as I can tell from the brief bio on his website, he is living and working in Japan, though most of the landscapes in his website gallery are of European scenes. Kaneko’s landscapes are bright, painterly and immediate, with…
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Proko drawing tutorials
Proko.com is a website maintained by artist and teacher Stan Prokopenko, in which he offers a number of free drawing tutorials as well as a full length portrait drawing instructional DVD that can be purchased through the site. The free tutorials are among the best I’ve seen on the web, and to date feature instruction…
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New Frick Collection Website
The Frick Collection, as I pointed out in my post from 2010, is a relatively small museum in New York that is remarkable in its ratio of size to masterpieces. Though perhaps without as much drama and attention as the website makeovers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2011 and the recent redesign of…