Month: May 2013
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New website for National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is one of the great art museums in the U.S., and a national treasure on which I am happy to see my tax dollars spent. The NGA has long had a web presence, but it has never been quite what those of us who admire the museum’s…
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Classic Disney animators paint a tree
Bracketed by Walt Disney reading quotes from Robert Henri’s The Art Spirit, this delightful short from 1958 briefly visits four Disney animators in the studio, where three of them are at the time working on the classic Sleeping Beauty animated feature, and then follows them into the California countryside, where they paint an old live…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Dyck double portrait
Lady Elizabeth Thimbelby and her Sister, Anthony van Dyck In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. You can zoom in even further than I have here. Van Dyck dazzles with his masterful rendering of fabric, flesh and hair. I love the way he has positioned and…
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Matthew Cook
UK illustrator Matthew Cook often works in an area of illustration known as reportage, essentially called on to observe and report on scenes in which news or events of interest to the publication for which he is working are happening. This is something of a throwback to the days prior to the widespread use of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Walscapelle still life
Still Life with Fruit and Oysters, Jacob van Walscapelle Show-off. From Museo Lázaro Galdiano on Google Art Project. Click in lower right of image for zoom controls.
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Drawn 2005-2013
I was sorry to learn today that Drawn, one of the bright go-to points on the web for regular shots of cartooning and illustration inspiration, has ended its run after 8 years. Started in early 2005 by cartoonist and illustrator John Martz, and eventually drawing on a collaborative rooster of artists, Drawn was always finding…