Author: cparker
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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…
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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…
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Eye Candy for Today: John O’Connor cityscape
Ludgate, Evening; John O’Connor Link is to image on Wikimedia Commons. The original was auctioned through Sotheby’s in 2012, so I assume it’s in a private collection. Not ony is this a deftly handled complex composition with a wonderful sense of scale and distance, it’s also a fascinating use of low-chroma complementary colors.
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Emily Hare
Emily Hare is a freelance illustrator based in the UK who has a wonderful knack for creating beasties and creatures. These have a nicely strange charm, or a charming strangeness, or, well.. you get the idea. Though she used to work digitally, she is now working in traditional media, primarily watercolor. Among the items in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Olga Wisinger-Florian fall landscape
Falling Leaves, Olga Wisinger-Florian Link is to the image on Wikimedia Commons. I don’t know the status of the original; it was sold at auction in 2014, so it may be in a private collection. Turn of the century Austrian painter Olga Wisinger-Florian give us a wonderful example of how to handle a complex, colorful…
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Museum Day 2017
Tomorrow, Saturday, September 23, 2017 is “Museum Day” here in the U.S. Organized by Smithsonian magazine, participating “Museum Day Live” institutions offer a free pair of admission tickets for the day. You just need to order your tickets in advance (today), print them out and take them with you. Hundreds of museums are participating, but…