Month: November 2013
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Jed McGowan's Hawaii
Illustrator and comics artist Jed McGowan gives us a comics version of the geological history of the big island of Hawaii. Wordless except for indications of time.
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"Selfies"
I am told by the internets that “selfie” has been chosen as the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year. Helpless as I am to swim against the mighty tide of popular culture, I give you a few interesting “selfies” done without benefit of iPhone. I’ve started with Durer’s remarkable self-portrait at the age of 13…
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Boris Zvorykin
Boris Zvorykin was a Russian illustrator active at the end of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th. Apart from that, I’ve found very little background or biographical information. I would be curious to know, in particular, the relationship between Zvorykin and Ivan Bilibin, who also did colorful and decorative illustrations of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour fruit, flowers, cup and book
Still Life, Henri Fantin-Latour Another Fantin-Latour-de-force (sorry, couldn’t resist) still life in which the 19th century French master serves up more of his yummy, painterly style. Link above is to Wikipedia, from which you can access a reasonably high-resolution file. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C.
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Aymeric Kevin
Aymeric Kevin is a graduate of the remarkable Goeblins school in Paris, where he collaborated on the student film Le Royaume. He is now working in Tokyo as an illustrator and visual development artist. His credits include work on Rayman Ledgends for Ubisoft, and his blog and Tumblog feature work from that and other projects.…
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Emile Claus
In his early career, 19th century Belgian painter Emile Claus painted portraits and genre subjects in a reserved academic style. In 1888 he moved to Paris for a time, where he encountered the works of the French Impressionists, and came to know Claude Monet, Henri Le Sidaner and Frits Thaulow. From those influences and others,…