Month: March 2014
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Peter Malone
Peter Malone is an illustrator from the U.K. who works in watercolor and gouache. His clients include Chronicle Books, Penguin Putnam, Knopf, Pavilion, Random House, Harper Collins, The New Yorker, and Decca. Malone’s work has a sensually textural quality, in which seemingly flat areas of color are made textural by his application of paint. He…
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George Barret, Sr.
18th century Irish landscape painter George Barret, Sr. (called Sr. or the elder because his son, George Barret Jr. also became a painter of note) spent much of his career in London, where he became a member of the Royal Academy. His subjects ranged from specific views of the British countryside to more dramatic imaginary…
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Mina dela Cruz
Mina dela Cruz is a painter specializing in still life and portraiture. Originally from the Philippines, she now lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Her website has galleries of still life, portrait painting and portrait drawings. In her still life, in particular, I find that sense of quiet contemplation that still life painters can sometimes…
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Rosa Bonheur
I first took notice of the work of 19th century painter Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, more commonly known as Rosa Bonheur, when I was struck by her beautiful landscape of the Forest of Fontainebleau (images above, bottom) in an exhibition at the National Gallery in DC in 2008. Even among works by Corot, Rousseau, Monet and Sisley,…
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A simple DIY drying rack for plein air panels and small paintings
One of the simultaneously good and difficult things about oil paint is that it dries slowly. Storing oil paintings as they dry is always something of an issue. Plein air painters, in particular, who often produce a lot of small paintings in a relatively short time frame, are faced with the question of how to…
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Eye Candy for Today: David double portrait
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife, Jacques Louis David David’s portrait of the famous French chemist and his wife, Marie Lavoiser, née Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, includes some of Antoine-Laurent Lavoiser’s experimental equipment. Marie Lavoiser was a student of David’s, and illustrated treatises on her husband’s experiments with extensive, detailed drawings of his scientific equipment.