Author: cparker
-
Joshua Eiten
Joshua Eiten’s Tumblr blog states that he is a communication design student at Carnegie Mellon University. If that’s still the case, his age is belied by the strong drawing, accomplished compositions and confident digital rendering of his concept art and illustration pieces. His blog is set in one of those awkward Tumblr arrangements in which…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Prud’hon’s Portrait of Constance Mayer
Portrait of Constance Mayer, Pierre-Paul Prud’hon On WikiArt, large version here. Original is in the collection of the Louvre, though I can’t find a listing for it on the museum’s new website. I had the pleasure of seeing this drawing in person at a show of Prud’hon’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art some…
-
Stephen Biesty
Ever since I was old enough to stare goggle eyed at them in children’s books, or in my fathers Popular Science magazines, I have always loved cross-sections, exploded views and cut-away illustrations. There’s something magical about seeing the inside and outside of a complex structure or vehicle simultaneously, like penetrating the surface of reality with…
-
Michael Godfrey
Michael Godfrey is a painter based in the D.C. area who at one point became fascinated with the landscape and mountains of the western U.S. His range of subject matter includes both the eastern and western mountains, their related fields and countryside, and particularly their creeks and streams. These he renders with great attention to…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Jacob van Walscapelle still life
Still Life with Fruit, Jacob van Walscapelle In the Rijksmuseum. Image is zoomable (and downloadable if you get a free account). Also a downloadable (but I think oersaturated) image here. Not only is this beautifully composed and rendered, with the fruits and stems gradually revealing themselves as you peer into the darker corners, I love…
-
Tony Auth, 1942-2014
For over 40 years, Tony Auth was a glimmer of sanity amid the news of the day, in the form of his cartoons on the opinion pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2012, Auth — a winner of the Pulitzer and Herblock Prizes — moved to the local PBS affiliate, bringing his cartoons to their