Author: cparker
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Peder Mork Mønsted
Peder Mork Mønsted was a Danish painter active in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Looking through his work you will find lush, color saturated paintings of his native Denmark, where Mønstead studied at the Copenhagen Academy, as well as landscapes from lands where he traveled, including Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, North Africa and Italy.…
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Hethe Srodawa
Hethe Srodawa is an entertainment industry concept artist currently working for Rockstar Games. Like many in his field, Srodawa paints digitally in Photoshop. I came across his work, specifically the image above, “Enchanted“, on the CGSociety site. Srodawa has a blog called The Pirate’s Cave, Illustrated Memoirs of a Dead Pirate, in which he posts…
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One1more2time3’s Weblog: Animation Treasures
One1more2time3’s Weblog is a blog written by animated film industry production designer Hans Bacher. Formerly based in Europe, the U.S. and Tokyo, Bacher is now in Manila, Philippines and writes about a number of animation and production art topics. According to Michael Hirsh’s Articles & Texticles, Bacher had been blogging previously on a different platform,…
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Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
I will wander off topic for a little personal background (“local color”, so to speak) and then come back. The town of Arles is in Provence, a region of France that borders the Mediterreanean Sea and Northern Italy, where the Romans established their first province (provincia) outside their borders (hence the name). Arles was one…
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Robert Crumb Exhibit in Philadelphia
Just a quick note that there is a new extensive exhibit of works from demented genius cartoonist and underground comix pioneer Robert Crumb at the Institute for Contemporary Art here in Philadelphia. I’ll write a post about the show, and Robert Crumb, in more detail after I’ve had a chance to see the exhibit, but…
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Thomas Paquette (update)
It’s always a treat for me to get to meet and talk to some of the contemporary artists I write about. This past Friday, I had the opportunity to attend an opening of a new show at the Gross McCleaf Gallery here in Philadelphia of works by Western Pennsylvania artist Thomas Paquette. I wrote about…