Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Richard Schmid: The Landscapes
Richard Schmid is a well known painter, author and teacher, who is highly regarded among other artists and whose signature style is often emulated by his students. I first mentioned Schmid on Lines and Colors back in 2008. In that article, I focused largely on his demo videos and his excellent instructional book, Alla Prima.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bruegel pen and ink landscape
Landscape with the Penitence of Saint Jerome, Pieter Bruegel the Elder In the National Gallery of Art, D.C, with zoomable version (also downloadable if you create a free account). There is an additional zoomable image on the Google Art Project and a smaller downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. The nominal penitent saint is probably the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Watanabe Seitei ink painting
Birds of a Flowering Branch, Watanabe Seitei In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download icons below the image. Roughly 14×11 inches (36x27cm), ink and color on silk. The listing doesn’t say what kind of “color”. The white flowers look to me like opaque watercolor, but I don’t know. The…
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Ali Cavanaugh
In a process similar to traditional fresco-secco — a method of painting with water based paints on a dry plaster surface that has been moistened — St. Louis based painter Ali Cavanaugh works by applying layers of watercolor to a prepared clay ground that has been wet. The resulting images have been described as luminous…
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Pronk Still Life with Holbein Bowl, Nautilus Cup, Glass Goblet and Fruit Dish
Pronk Still Life with Holbein Bowl, Nautilus Cup, Glass Goblet and Fruit Dish, Willem Kalf Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, which also has a high-res downloadable file. “Pronk” still life means “splendid”, or…
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Robert Hope
Scottish painter Robert Hope was active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries. He studied at the Edinburgh School of Design and in Paris at the Académie Julian. Beyond that, I can find little information and only a few sources of images. Hope created painterly landscapes and compositions of young women in clothes of…