Month: December 2014
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Eye Candy for Today: Hubert Robert architectural fantasy
The Bathing Pool, Hubert Robert In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Another bit of 18th century idealized landscape and architectural fantasy from Hubert Robert. Ready to trade in your gym membership?
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Frank Duveneck
While other late 19th century American painters were flocking to Paris for their training, returning with the influences of the Impressionists burning bright on their palettes, Kentucky-born Frank Duveneck, the son of a German Immigrant, studied at the Royal Academy of Munich, where he learned and equally new and painterly, but darker toned style of…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Brown’s Cave of Dionysius
The Cave of Dionysius, Syracuse; John Brown In the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. Use the zoom feature or download link. Pen and brown ink, approximately 18 x 11 inches (46 x 27 cm). A wonderful sense of light and texture is carried throughout the drawing. It’s a fascinating composition in which the subject, though…
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Aaron Blaise
Aaron Blaise is a wildlife artist, animator, illustrator and character development artist who spent many years with Walt Disney Feature Animation, where he worked on titles like The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan and Brother Bear. After leaving the film industry, Blaise devoted himself to his love…
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John Salminen
John Salminen’s watercolors of urban scenes are rich with beautifully finessed textures, nuanced value relationships and subtle juxtaposition of high chroma passages against more muted colors. He has a particularly appealing technique of leaving sparkling highlights within broader textural areas of treetops and foliage, together with a sensitivity to the effects of light in a…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Blake Richmond’s Venus and Anchises
Venus and Anchises, William Blake Richmond On Google Art project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Kind of odd the way Anchises is shoved up into the corner of the background, almost as though the artist just wanted to get him out of the way so he could…