Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Daniel Ridgway Knight’s Shepherdess of Rolleboise
The Shepherdess of Rolleboise, Daniel Ridgway Knight On Google Art Project. High resolution downloadable image available on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Brooklyn Museum. I know that Knight’s softly atmospheric pastoral scenes were crafted to be appealing to a certain sensibility, and I’m all-in on that.
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Paleo artist shows us new feathered dinosaur species, “The Chicken from Hell”
When new discoveries are made in paleontology, most interestingly in the realm of dinosaurs, it’s up to paleo artists to interpret the findings and give them a visual form based on the available scientific data. In this case, a new dinosaur species was discovered by scientists from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the…
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Welcoming Spring with John William Waterhouse
Today marks the Vernal Equinox. Sigh. I can’t think of a painter who does “Spring” better than J.W. Waterhouse, and I’ve selected a few of his wonderful paintings depicting the season, or just young women and flowers. Sigh. For more Waterhouse, see my previous posts, below; and for an additional variety of paintings to celebrate…
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Fallin’ Floyd
Fallin’ Floyd is an 8 minute animated short from the Netherlands, written and directed by Albert’t Hooft and Paco Vink. It chronicles a romantically jilted jazz musician, and his struggle through the resulting bout with depression, as portrayed by a little demon figure. The film is well realized, and effectively changes color palettes to create…
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Joseph McGurl
Well known American landscape painter Joseph McGurl works both in plein air an larger studio compositions. McGurl draws on the traditions of the American landscape painters of the 19th century, but in his pursuit of light, has a fresh, contemporary approach. McGurl is based on Cape Cod, and many of his scenes are of the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Georges de La Tour candlelight scene
The Repentant Magdalen, Georges de La Tour Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. High-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. La Tour gives us one of his (if you’ll excuse the expression) tour de force candle-lit scenes, in which the flame itself is hidden, but the forms are revealed by the direct but…