Author: cparker
-
The Frick Collection, NYC
I was in New York over the weekend and I took the opportunity to visit the Frick Collection, which I haven’t been to for a few years (it’s often hard for me to get past the Met and the Morgan Library to other museums when I’m in NYC). The Frick is based on the collection…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Heinrich Böhmer Landscape with Deer
Landscape with Deer, Heinrich Böhmer Link is to The Greatest of Art blog; there is another copy of the image on The Golden Kite Forum. I don’t know the location of the original. Turn of the century German landscape painter Heinrich Böhmer had a wonderful touch with atmospheric perspective in his woodland interiors. I love…
-
Michael Rothman
Michael Rothman is a natural science illustrator who appears to specialize in complex scenes of plants and animals in their natural environment. His subjects include both extant and extinct species. Rothman has a superb ability to render highly detailed compositions — with multiple focal points of individual plants and animals — in a way that…
-
Short Trip, Alexander Perrin
Short Trip is a hand-drawn interactive animation by Alexander Perrin. The author calls it an “interactive illustration”, and the drawings are done in pencil. If you would like to be simply and delightfully amused for 5 or 10 minutes, turn your sound on, open your browser to full screen and play with it using the…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Leighton’s Perseus and Andromeda
Perseus and Andromeda, Frederic Leighton Link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a downloadable version on Wikipedia, which also has a descriptive page for the painting; the original is in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. There is a tendency to think of heroes and dragons fantasy as a recent…
-
Mary Sprague (update)
Mary Sprague is an artist based in St. Louis who I first covered back in 2010, and who works in ink, paint, pastel, wood and clay. Her website emphasizes her large scale drawings of chickens, done in pastel, charcoal and mixed media; there is also a series of images of rhinos in a mix of…