Month: December 2019
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Another Norman Rockwell exhausted Santa
Another of Norman Rockwell’s tired Santa illustrations, this one before rather than after his world-round ride, as in the illustration I featured in this post from 2017. I love the fact that Santa is apparently oblivious to the elf on his shoulder hanging onto his ear as he leans out to point. Source for the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Peder Mønsted winter landscape
Sunny Winter Day (Ein sonniger Wintertag), Peder Mørk Mønsted Link is to image on Wikimedia Commons: I don’t know the location of the original. Happy Winter Solstice, everyone!
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Russell Chatham
Russell Chatham was an American landscape artist based for most of his career in Montana. Though he also produced oil paintings, he is known in particular for his beautifully subtle color lithographs, some of which use 30 or more layers of color to attain the final image. His work shares some characteristics with tonalist painting,…