Month: November 2015
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A Revolution of the Palette at Norton Simon
Though it had been slowing expanding over the centuries, the range of paint colors available to artists increased most dramatically in the 19th century, when a number of new synthetic pigments began to come into production, partly as a result of the industrial revolution. Prior to that, new color discoveries were few and scattered, and…
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Seth Havercamp
Virginia based artist Seth Havercamp studied at The Cleveland Institute of Art, the Memphis College of Art and Carson-Newman College. He continued his study with Robert Liberace at the Art League and Nelson Shanks at Studio Incamminati. Havercamp concentrates on figures, portraits and still life. In the latter, he takes a fascinatingly textural approach that…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hassam’s Fifth Avenue flags
Rainy Day, Fifth Avenue, and Flags, Fifth Avenue; Childe Hassam First link is to Princeton University Art Museum, which has the original oil in its collection (there is also a version on Wikimdeia Commons); the second link is to Wikimedia Commons; I don’t know the location of the original watercolor. Today is Veterans Day here…
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Artem “Rhads” Chebokha
Most of us have at some point enjoyed laying back and watching cloud formations in which it is easy to see shapes that look like ships, dogs, hills, oceans, dragons and more. Artem Chebokha — who also goes by the handle, “Rhads” — is a digital artist based in Omsk, Russian Federation. Chebokha has taken…
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Marie Spartali Stillman (update)
Marie Spartali Stillman was a Pre-Raphaelite painter, notably the most well known of the women painters among that group, as well as a model for several of the other painters in the Pre-Raphaelite circle. Stillman studied with the renowned Victorian painter Ford Madox Brown, who was not a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but was…
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Batz
Batz is an animated short (6 min) by Max Maleo & Aurélien Prédal. The animation is done with a CGI process known generally as “cel shading” or “toon shading”, in which the normally 3-D appearance of CG animation is given a look more like 2-D hand drawing by the use of gradients and flat areas…