Month: May 2013
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Wayne Plein Air Festival 2013
The Wayne Plein Air Festival, held here in Southeastern Pennsylvania each May, is now in its seventh year and has grown into an important regional plein air event. The participating artists paint for three days at locations within 15 miles of the town, one day in nearby Philadelphia and one day in the town of…
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My Tor.com post on the Fleischer Superman cartoons
I’ve written before on Lines and Colors about the beautiful and groundbreaking series of Superman cartoons created by Fleischer Studios that ran before feature films in the early 1940’s. I’ve written a more extensive article for Tor.com that delves into their place in the onscreen history of the character. It was posted this morning and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Alexander’s Isabella
Isabella and the Pot of Basil, John White Alexander I love the contrast of this spare, Art Nouveau-tinged interpretation of the tragic and somewhat gruesome tale of Isabella, as compared to William Holman Hunt’s lavish and equally stunning interpretation of the same story. The John White Alexander painting is in the Museum of Fine Arts,…
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Patrick Arrasmith (update)
Since I first wrote about illustrator Patrick Arrasmith back in 2008, he has become best known as the illustrator of the Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. Arrasmith works in the difficult but rewarding medium of scratchboard, in which line and tone are created by scratching black ink from the surface of clay-coated board on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Morisot’s mother and sister
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother and Sister, Berthe Morisot An intimate family portrait by an underappreciated member of the Impressionist circle.
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Cayce Zavaglia
Cayce Zavaglia creates her portraits in a novel variation on the time honored traditions of tapestry, using crewel embroidery wool in a method in which the direction of the threads are not blended into a uniform pattern, but given direction within the creation of the form — like brushstrokes, producing a much more “painterly” (“threaderly”?)…