Month: September 2014
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Lawrence portrait
Elizabeth Farren, Sir Thomas Lawrence In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use fullscreen or download links under image. A beautiful portrait in “the grand manner”. I love the brushwork in the hair, fur and fabric.
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Régis Pettinari
Régis Pettinari is a French painter whose work I have admired for years, but am just now writing about — perhaps because every time I visit his blog, I find myself spending way too much time looking back through his extensive archive of work instead of writing my post. Pettinari is a painter of Paris,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gainsborough ink and wash landscape
Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane, Thomas Gainsborough On Google Art Project. High-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Yale Center for British Art. There’s something about ink and wash drawings like this one that feel… complete, like a form of painting with all the visual charm of…
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Scott Brundage (update)
Two things immediately jump out at me when looking over the illustrations of Scott Brundage: one is his deft control of mood and atmosphere across his range of styles, the other is, of course, the wonderful expressiveness of his characters. Brundage works in watercolor, and his style ranges from dark and intense to light and…
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Pierre Raby
It would be easy to simply classify Montreal-based artist Pierre Raby’s work as “photorealistic”; but to do so, I think, is to miss the point. Raby’s paintings of cups, saucers, glassware and silver are marvelous wonderlands of light — reflected, refracted and bounced from one surface to the next in a cascade of color changes.…