Author: cparker
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Minna Sundberg
Minna Sundberg is a Danish comics artist and illustrator with a lively, visually charming style. In the illustrations featured in her DeviantART portfolio and the portfolio of her work on Character Design Reverences, I find a fascinating tendency to work with strategically limited palettes. Sundberg is the author and artist of a number of webcomics.…
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How The World’s Most Expensive Colors Are Made
This YouYube video from Business Insider goes into the history and making of several of the most expensive artist pigments and materials. I found the first 10 minutes particularly of interest for going into greater depth than usual in describing the mining and refinement of Lapis Lazuli, the semi-precious stone used to make the original…
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Eye Candy for Today: Christian Molsted canal scene
The Canal at Holmes Bridge, Christian Mlested, oi on canvas, roughly 38 x 34 inches ( 96 x 87 cm). Image is sourced from Wikipedia. This painting was auctioned in 2011; I assume it’s currently in a private collection. Danish painter Christian Molsted, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gives…
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A Fresh Look: Botticelli’s Venus (reversed)
When painting or sketching, artists will often use a mirror to briefly reverse their view of a work that is difficult to see objectively because it has become too familiar from time spent working on it. I enjoy applying that same idea to works of art that have become so iconic and familiar they are…
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Frédéric Pillot
Though not well known here in the U.S. (and undeservedly so), Frédéric Pillot is well known in France as a creator of comics, illustrations and beloved children’s books. Pillot pushes the stylized exaggeration of his characters and environments out to the limits, and then wraps his scenes in lovingly rendered detail, atmosphere and lighting effects.…
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Frederick Sandys’ Proud Maisie drawings
Proud Maisie (3 versions), drawings by Frederick Sandys. The first two versions of this drawing are in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and share a single page, with a link to the image on green paper below the primary image. There doesn’t seem to be a separate description for the second drawing, so…