Month: March 2013
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Eye Candy for Today: Tiffany’s Cairo
On the Way between Old and New Cairo, Citadel Mosque of Mohammed Ali, and Tombs of the Mamelukes by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Tiffany is better known for his stained glass and decorative works, but was a skilled painter in the orientalist vein. In the Brooklyn Museum. Click “Download” under the image and choose a size.…
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Aaron Schuerr
Aaron Schuerr portrays the mountains, streams and woodlands of his adopted home of Montana in both oil and pastel. His plein air works show a subtle appreciation for the fleeting effects of light, and his painterly approach demonstrates a keen awareness of the importance of edges. Though mountains are his most frequent subject, I particularly…
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David Wyatt (update)
David Wyatt is a UK based illustrator working primarily in the fantasy genre for children’s books. Since I wrote about him in 2009, Wyatt has a new website and a new blog, along with, of course, lots of delightful new material online. In many of his feature illustrations, done in watercolor, Wyatt has a richly…
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Delbert Gish
Delbert Gish is an American painter who received his master of fine arts degree from the University of Idaho, but went on from there to study with late 20th century and contemporary masters Sergei Bongart, David Leffel, Harvey Dinnerstein, Burton Silverman and Nelson Shanks. The legacy of his study with those painters is reflected in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt landscape drawing
Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood, Rembrandt van Rijn. If I were writing an illustrated dictionary of art terms, next to “economy of notation” I would have one of Rembrandt’s drawings. Interestingly, for an artist whose paintings were primarily portraiture, many of Rembrandt’s etchings, and a high percentage of the drawings apparently done for…
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Newsreel visit to Fleischer Studios
This 1939 Paramount “Popular Science” newsreel explains the basic principles of cartoon animation in the course of a visit to Fleischer Studios, where they are working on a Popeye cartoon. I don’t know how long this will be available on YouTube before some copyright troll or other demands a takedown. [Via @MaxtheMutt]