Author: cparker
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Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012
Solid and invaluable advice for artists or any kind, and at any stage in their life and career — but particularly when starting out, given by writer Neil Gaiman at this year’s commencement address to the graduating class of the University of the Arts here in Philadelphia. Excellent. [Via MetaFilter]
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Daniel Xiao
Daniel Xiao is a concept and matte painting artist who has worked for Pixar Animation Studios, Dreamworks Universal and Fantasy Flight Games, among others. Xiao paints digitally in Photoshop, as well as working with 3-D applications like Maya and Sketchup Pro. His fantastical landscapes have a wonderful sense of scale and atmospheric perspective, the qualities…
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Pierre-Auguste Cot’s The Storm and Springtime
Academically trained French painter Pierre-Auguste Cot, who was a student of Bouguereau, among others, is particularly known for two similarly striking paintings, The Storm (above, top three images) and Springtime (bottom four images). Both are beautifully rendered, with a feeling of lush naturalism, playfully romantic and more than a little suggestive. Check out the smoldering…
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Pochade boxes (update 2012)
Some plein air painters are hardy and dedicated enough to paint outdoors all year round. Others, like your humble author, are more inclined to wait until spring to emerge from the cocoon of a heated studio, brushes in hand, blinking in the glare of an unfamiliar sun. In either case, for most of us, the…
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1880’s paintings from Wikimedia Commons
Taking another dip into the extensive art image resources on the Wikimedia Commons website, I’m once again finding delight in the ability to sort paintings by decade (or year) and browse a wonderful assortment of artists, subjects and styles. This is just the tip of the iceberg, gleaning a few paintings off their generalized “1880’s…
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Robert Douglas Hunter
Boston painter Robert Douglas Hunter studied with R.H. Ives Gammell, carrying forward his defense of classical academic tradition in the face of modernist orthodoxy. Hunter’s refined, elegant still life paintings of simple objects wrapped in soft light and contemplative stillness, carry echoes of the 19th century French ateliers and even further back to Chardin and…