Month: April 2015
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Denise La Rue Mahlke
Texas artist Denise La Rue Mahlke works in pastel and charcoal in creating her sensitive, atmospheric landscapes. She uses the character of her mediums to advantage to create soft-edged, textural compositions that often have a tonalist feel, particularly when combined with her subtle color sense and often restrained value ranges. My personal reaction to many…
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Jason Kang
If I’m interpreting the bio blurbs on his blog and Tumblr site correctly, Jason Kang is a young concept artist and illustrator who was only recently still a student at the Art Center College of Design in pasadena, and has just started to work as a concept artist with gaming developers Gearbox in Texas. Though…
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Rembrandt’s Christ and St Mary Magdalen at the Tomb
Christ and St Mary Magdalen at the Tomb, Rembrandt van Rijn The link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable version of the file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Royal Collection Trust, London, which also has a zooming feature. In the story of Mary Magdalene arriving…
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Eye Candy for Today: M.C. Escher’s Hand with Reflecting Sphere
Hand with Reflecting Sphere, M.C. Escher From the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Too often, Escher’s skills as a draftsman and printmaker are overshadowed by his brain-twisting themes. This one, though still weird and cool, is more straightforward than some. Apparently drawn from life, with the difficult spherical perspective, it features the common cheat in…
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Walter Launt Palmer
American Impressionist painter Walter Launt Palmer studied formally with Charles Loring Elliott, but received his most influential instruction in landscape painting from Frederick Edwin Church, who was a friend of his father, sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer. He was also exposed to other noted artists in the circle, including John Frederick Kensett. Walter Palmer also studied…
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Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Parton landscape
Early Spring, Arthur Parton In the Indianapolis Museum of Art, use zoom or download options to the right of the image. Beautifully direct and painterly, with wonderful control of hard and soft edges, Parton’s unpretentious landscape captures the season perfectly.