Month: February 2013
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Adam and Dog
Adam and Dog is a beautifully designed, realized and animated short (14 minutes) written and directed by Disney visual development artist Minkyu Lee, assisted by a group of friends from other animation studios like Dreamworks and Pixar. The story — of man, dog and woman — unfolds slowly and wordlessly against a series of strikingly…
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The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Whitney Collection, 1785-1850
The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Whitney Collection, 1785-1850 is the title of an exhibition currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It includes works by well known and lesser known artists from the period. Though I haven’t been able to see the show, I have seen some of the…
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Nantala Kantala
As far as I can tell, Nantala Kantala is a Japanese illustrator, and/or anime artist. I only have this site to go by, and Google Translate has been of little help. I did find, however, that the characters to the immediate left of the top image are links to other images. I’m even unsure, as…
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Eye Candy for Today: M.C. Escher’s Up and Down
Up and Down, M.C. Escher. One of my favorites from Escher, a simple and elegant brain twist from the master of pulling your perceptions out from under you (and this inspiration for this panel from my webcomic).
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Phil Sandusky
The focus of attention on New Orleans on Sunday reminded me of a book I’ve had for a while called Painting Katrina, a collection of paintings by New Orleans based artist Phil Sandusky. In the 150 or so paintings in the book, he presented plein air impressions of the city in both normal and troubled…