Category: Drawing
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Frederick Catherwood
If Indiana Jones had been equipped with a sketchbook and watercolor kit instead of his famous whip, he might have been Frederick Catherwood. Catherwood was an English architect and artist who traveled to Central America in the mid-1800’s with a writer named John Lloyd Stephens to create a book on the ancient Mayan ruins, which…
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Drawing Dinosaurs with David Krentz
I was one of those lucky kids who didn’t “outgrow” my fondness for dinosaurs, or drawing them, as I grew older. They are amazing animals in many ways, and their variation in size, wildly bizarre appearance and astonishingly exaggerated forms make them as much of a delight to draw now as they did when I…
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BibliOdyssey
Well, it happened again. I was trying once again to bring you this post and I got lost. You see, I fell down a rabbit hole, found myself among the very large and the very small, and as everything became curiouser and curiouser, lost myself wandering in wide eyed fascination through a seemingly endless wonderland…
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Mark Reep
Color, particularly in this era of hyper-kinetic, cathode ray, plasma and LCD display multi-media dazzle, can sometimes make us jaded about our appreciation for the subtle charm of monochromatic works. Like city dwellers taking the time to get away to the country, we might find it worth the trouble to slow down and look for…
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Heinrich Kley
The relationship of humanity to the natural world is receiving a bit more attention these days, as it becomes clearer that we’re not cleaning the big cat-box we’ve made of our Eden. Artists are often quicker to notice these things than others and some have been pointing out that strained relationship for a long time.…
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Russell Stutler
You will often find information about pen and ink drawing, and there is certainly a a plethora of information about watercolor, but you seldom see mention of the meeting of the two. Born in Japan, raised in the U.S. and now living in Tokyo, Russell Stutler is an artist who has a fascinating site devoted…