Author: cparker
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The Watercolor World
It’s sometimes easy to forget that painting and drawing once served the function we now assign to photography of recording places and events for reference or posterity. Watercolor, a portable medium that could easily be used for location painting, was a favored vehicle for reportage and documentary subjects. A recently established UK based non-profit project…
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Antonio Segura Donat (Dulk)
Antonio Segura Donat is a Spanish artist who often works under the pseudonym Dulk, which he adopted originally for use as a street artist and muralist. Dulk creates images that blend aspects of magic realism and fantasy, often with themes of animals, and in particular, birds. He works in a variety of traditional media, paint,…
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R Gregory Summers
R. Gregory Summers is a plein air painter working in the Kansas City area. He takes on plain air subjects both natural and man made with sharp, abbreviated notation and rich painterly brushwork. His subjects range from the close and familiar to places from his travels in other parts of the world, like Australia and…
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Eye Candy for Today; Durer’s Tuft of Cowslips
Tuft of Cowslips, Albrecht Durer Gouache on vellum; roughly 8 x 7 inches (19 x 17 cm); in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has zoomable and downloadable images. There is also a zoomable version on the Google Art Project. Like his more well known but equally wonderful “Large Piece of…
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John Donohue’s “All the Restaurants in New York”
Since 2017, New York based artist and writer John Donohue has been pursuing his — admittedly unlikely — quest to draw all of the restaurants in New York City (estimated to number around 24,000, not counting ongoing closings and openings). He takes this on by sketching on location in pen and ink, without preliminary pencil…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair
The Horse Fair, Rosa Bonheur, oil on canvas, roughly 96 x 200 inches (245 x 507 cm), Study for “The Horse Fair”, chalk and wash with gouache highlights on paper, roughly 5 x 13 inches (14 x 34 cm); both in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Rosa Bonueur was the best known…