Author: cparker
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Ben Heine (update)
I first wrote about Belgian painter, illustrator and photographer Ben Heine back in 2010, when I highlighted his delightful series called “Pencil vs. Camera“, in which he draws a continuation or substitution for part of a scene, usually in pencil on a ragged edged piece of paper or card, and then photographs the drawing held…
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Jess and Russ
OK, now this is how you do an online wedding invitation. I can’t possibly do better in describing “Jess and Russ” than Scott McCloud did in his tweet this morning: “Another day, another stunning, collaborative, parallax-scrolling, infinite canvas wedding invitation.” Exactly. Collaborative refers to the contributions that the couple, both designers, elicited from their friends…
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D Eleinne Basa
D Eleinne Basa is a painter from New Jersey whose landscapes and florals can range from refined, as in her large studio paintings, to nicely rough edged and painterly, as in her plain air paintings. Her approach likewise can vary from softly tonalist to more straightforwardly realist. I was immediately impressed by Basa’s painting Fall’s…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres portrait
Following up on my recent Eye Candy post about an Ingres graphite portrait, I couldn’t help but think of this well known and beautiful portrait painting. Comtesse d’Haussonville, by Jean-August-Dominique Ingres, on Google Art Project. Use controls at lower right to zoom in. Note the way he has carefully handled the reflection of the back…
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Nagai Hideyuki
Japanese artist Nagai Hideyuki has created a fun series of drawings that span two sketchbooks propped at 90° to one another, and when viewed from the proper angle, give the illusion of continuous three dimensionality. You can see a selection on his website and on his deviantART page. There is a video on YouTube that…