Author: cparker
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Retro Future Transportation Illustrations on DRB
Is it the future yet? I just love past visions of the future (particularly when the future is in our past). The folks at Dark Roasted Blend, as they often do, have assembled some nice collections of retro future illustration — in this case past visions of future transportation, mostly culled from popular science magazines…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tissot interior
In the Conservatory, James Tissot. See my post on James Jacques Joseph Tissot.
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Shintaro Ohata
Shintaro Ohata is an artist from Hiroshima, Japan who is both a painter and a sculptor. Artists who are both sculptors and painters are not unusual. Ohata, however, frequently combines the two mediums in single works in which a painting and sculpture are displayed together as a mixed two dimensional – three dimensional work. The…
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Eye Candy for Today: Mancini’s Customs
The Customs, Antonio Mancini. In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. John Singer Sargent is said to have called Antonio Mancini “the world’s greatest living artist”. Jean-Léon Gérôme called him “a phenomenon”. Who am I to argue?
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Nicolas Delort
Nicolas Delort, a freelance illustrator based in Paris, creates wonderfully textural pen & ink (on scratchboard) illustrations that take inspiration from greats like Franklin Booth and Gustav Doré — with perhaps a bit of Joseph Clement Coll and Virgil Finlay thrown in for good measure. Delort’s website is essentially just a placeholder at the moment,…
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Francis Livingston (update)
Francis Livingston is a gallery artist and illustrator based in Idaho who I wrote about back in 2006. Since then his style continued to develop and change, exploring new themes. In his latest work, he floats animals through the skies, parks and large scale building interiors of New York, as well as placing other objects…