Month: May 2015
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Alfred Parsons
Alfred Parsons was a British landscape painter, illustrator and botanical artist, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His sensitivity to the nuances of natural forms and colors is particularly evident in his evocative portrayals of flowering trees in spring. Parsons also brought his artistic sensibilities and botanical knowledge to garden design. In…
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Bill Mudron
Bill Mudron is an illustrator and designer from Texas, who came to my attention through a series of posters he created, inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films and done in the woodblock print style of Kawase Hasui. In these, I not only enjoy his subtle approach, but his choice to reduce the characters to small…
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Eye Candy for Today: Karl Spitzweg’s Childhood Friends
Childhood Friends, Karl Spitzweg Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. I love the illustrative qualities in the piece — the theatrical lighting, the narrative element and the caricaturish portrayal of the old friends, shown in an apparent reunion…
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Kevin Muente
Kevin Muente is an artist based in Kentucky, who is also a professor of art at Northern Kentucky University. His work focuses on landscape and figures in landscape, the latter often engaged in some kind of activity, or a state or situation with some emotional resonance. Muente’s approach is one of clear observation and focused…
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Kim Parkhurst
Kim Parkhurst is a Massachussetts based illustrator who loves to paint animals, whether in childrens’ book style illustrations or as anthropomorphized versions of particular individuals. In her anthropomorphized animal portraits, she attempts to capture the personality of the individual with her selection of an appropriate animal, usually cats and dogs. A particular series of these,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto’s Capriccio with monumental staircase
A capriccio with a monumental staircase, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Pen and ink with gray wash, roughly 14 x 21 inches ( 36 x 53 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Royal Collection, which also has a a zoomable version and a…