Month: December 2015
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Cole’s Architect’s Dream
Architect’s Dream, Thomas Cole Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, which also has an interactive feature on the work. This fantastical combination of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Gothic architectural styles — in the midst of which we find…
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Eoghan Kerrigan
With a name that sounds ideally suited to the genre, Eoghan Kerrigan is an Irish illustrator who focuses on fantasy subjects. His trolls, adventurers, dragons and other characters and mythical creatures are nicely imaginative and wonderfully rendered. He often works in pen and ink with color fill, or pencil with color over. A number of…
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Tissot’s Adoration of the Shepherds
The Adoration of the Shepherds, James Tissot This is one of a remarkable series of 350 paintings — done primarily in gouache — in which Tissot depicted events in the New Testament of the Bible relevant to the life of Christ (see my pervious post on James Tissot’s series, “The Life of Christ”). At the…
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Thomas Nast’s Santa Claus illustrations
Pioneering American political cartoonist and illustrator Thomas Nast — who was active during the mid to late 19th century, and particularly during the period of the American Civil War — was instrumental in the creation of the contemporary image of Santa Claus. Though I often credit the later illustrations of J.C. Leyendecker with fully fleshing…
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Eye Candy for Today: Chardin’s Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougéres, Pots, and Cruets on a Table
Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougéres, Pots, and Cruets on a Table, Jean-Siméon Chardin The original is in the collection of the Getty Museum, which has both a zoomable image, and a large (21MB) downloadable file available on their website. There is also a zoomable file on Google Art Project, and a downloadable version of…
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David Tutwiler
Though he paints landscapes and a variety of other subjects, Michigan based painter David Tutwiler has a particular focus on portraying classic steam trains. These are shown in the context of landscapes, in historical scenes, in snow and fog, winter and summer. In other hands, this might become a tired formula, but Tutwiler approaches it…