Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Aaron Blaise
Aaron Blaise is a wildlife artist, animator, illustrator and character development artist who spent many years with Walt Disney Feature Animation, where he worked on titles like The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan and Brother Bear. After leaving the film industry, Blaise devoted himself to his love…
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John Salminen
John Salminen’s watercolors of urban scenes are rich with beautifully finessed textures, nuanced value relationships and subtle juxtaposition of high chroma passages against more muted colors. He has a particularly appealing technique of leaving sparkling highlights within broader textural areas of treetops and foliage, together with a sensitivity to the effects of light in a…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Blake Richmond’s Venus and Anchises
Venus and Anchises, William Blake Richmond On Google Art project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Kind of odd the way Anchises is shoved up into the corner of the background, almost as though the artist just wanted to get him out of the way so he could…
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Travis Seymour
Travis Seymour is an American artist who studied both in the U.S. and Italy, and currently resides in London, UK. Seymour works with both still life and figurative subjects, and his website features galleries of both, as well as a selection of his refined drawings. He also has a blog that features additional images, as…
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Landscape with a Village on the Outskirts of Rome Mariano Barbasán
Landscape with a Village on the Outskirts of Rome, Mariano Barbasán On Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid. I love the bright, sun-splashed feeling of the walls and water, and the textural, painterly quality overall.
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Daily Painting, Carol Marine
I’ve been following the “daily painting” phenomenon since 2005, when I wrote about a blog called A Painting a Day by Virginia painter Duane Keiser. Keiser had committed himself to painting one small painting each day and posting it to his blog. I commented at the time that I thought this was a terrific idea,…