Month: March 2013
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Eye Candy for Today: early Fantin-Latour still life
Still Life with Roses and Fruit, Henri Fantin-Latour. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and Zoom or download arrow. Though I also admire Fantin-Latour’s mature work, I just love the painterly quality of this early still life — a wonderful study in brushwork and edges. To my thinking, there is a direct…
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Tugboat Printshop: Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth
Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth are collaborative artists working in woodblock prints, and are also husband and wife. Tugboat Printshop is their online store and gallery. The site not only showcases their work but is in large part devoted to process, and details various aspects of the creation and production of their prints. Their work…
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Armand Cabrera
Originally from California and now living and working in Virginia, painter Armand Cabrera brings several aspects of his background into play when creating his vibrant, painterly landscapes, still lifes and figurative works. He draws on his 20 years of experience as a visual development artist for the entertainment industry, in which his clients include LucasFilm…
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Ashley Edge
Ashley Edge is an artist based in Manchester, U.K. who works primarily in graphite on board. He has begun to post illustrations to a blog, beginning with some interpretations of stories by Angela Carter and H.G. Wells. You will also find some graphite portraits, and reference to a project he is working on with designer…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hubert Robert’s Hermit
A Hermit Praying in the Ruins of a Roman Temple, Hubert Robert. On Google Art Project, click in lower right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Getty Museum. On the museum’s site they suggest Robert may have taken inspiration for the monumental scale of the temple from the prints of his contemporary…