Month: October 2013
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Eye Candy for Today: Grimshaw's Evening Glow
Evening Glow, John Atkinson Grimshaw Original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which has a couple of large files available for download. Also on Wikimedia Commons.
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Jesper Ejsing
Jesper Ejsing is a Danish illustrator working in the area of fantasy and gaming. I’m not sure of his current status. Except for a post in January of this year, his blog hasn’t been updated since 2010, and he has apparently let the domain name for his website lapse. That being said, his blog is…
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George Stavrinos
George Stavrinos was an illustrator active in the late 20th century. He specialized in fashion illustration, and stood out within that genre for his crisp, solid draftsmanship, personal flair and Art Deco stylings. His clients included The New York Times, Gentleman’s Quarterly, Cosmopolitan, Barney’s Clothes, Bergdorf Goodman, Push Pin Studios and the New York City…
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Girtin drawing
Lichfield Cathederal, Staffordshire, Thomas Girtin On Google Art and Wikimedia Commons. Watercolor with pen and ink over graphite, 15×11″ (38x29cm). Original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which has a really high res download available. Info also here.
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Louis janmot
Anne-François-Louis Janmot was a 19th century French painter who devoted his career to depictions of his deeply held Christian faith. Janmot was also a poet. His most ambitious undertaking was a cycle of 18 paintings and 16 drawings, accompanied by verse, titled Poem of the Soul. You can see the 18 paintings arranged in order…
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3D printed reproductions of historic paintings
You’ve probably seen by now some of the examples of very high resolution art images, on the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project if not elsewhere, and you may have heard of the process of 3D printing, in which ink-jet like printers can print three dimensional physical objects by the computer-controlled application of layers of sprayed…