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Free Comic Book Day, 2016

May 7, 2016

Today, May 7, is Free Comic Book Day, 2016!

Participating comic book shops will be giving away a selection of special promotional comic books, designed to introduce new readers both to those individual titles and to the fun of reading comics in general.

Find a local participating shop by zip code on this Store Locator.

The Free Comic Book Day website has more information, including a list of the available titles. Glen Weldon has an overview of the titles on the NPR website. (Not all titles will be available at all shops.)

The comic book shops will be in a kind of “open house” mode, and glad to make recommendations and introductions to the current range of comic book titles and subjects — which you may find surprisingly diverse.

Many shops will be featuring guest artists or writers and having special sales in coordination with the event. Check the individual shops’ websites for details.

I’ll be checking out the free comics at my personal favorite comic book (and other book) shop, Between Books, in Claymont, DE.

For more of my descriptions of the event, see some of my previous years’ posts on Free Comic Book Day.

Free Comic Book Day website
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Eye Candy for Today: Aelbert Cuyp chalk drawing

May 7, 2016

View of the Groote Kerk in Dordrecht from the River Maas, Aelbert Cuyp

Black and brown chalks, green and gray washes, roughly 7 x 14 inches (18 x 36 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

With simple lines and deft applications of tone — in only a few levels of value — 17th century Dutch landscape master Aelbert Cuyp has given us not only a scene with a remarkable sense of depth, but a feeling for the place, time of day and sense of the weather in this view of the town and its cathedral.

View of the Groote Kerk in Dordrecht from the River Maas, Met Museum
Related posts:
Eye Candy for Today: Cuyp’s Maas at Dordrecht
Aelbert Cuyp

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Drawing, Eye Candy for Today, Gallery and Museum Art
Robert Sampson

May 6, 2016

Originally from New York, Robert Sampson is a painter now based here in Philadelphia, where he portrays the city’s overpasses, rail bridges, streets and walls in strong, marvelously geometric compositions.

He enlists shadows, street markings and pass-throughs in building his scenes, as well as pedestrians, who can sometimes be seen in groups as semi-abstract shapes. Particularly enjoyable to me are the light elements of openings that often occur in the backgrounds of his paintings, lending them a wonderful sense of depth.

Sampson’s work can be seen in a solo show at the F.A.N. Gallery in Philadelphia that opens today, May 6 (coinciding with the First Friday Old City Gallery Walk), and runs until May 28, 2016.

The F.A.N. Gallery also has an online portfolio of Sampson’s work, in which the images are larger than those on Sampson’s own website.

www.robertsampson.net
F.A.N. Gallery

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Eye Candy for Today: Gaston La Touche’s Joyous Festival

May 4, 2016

The Joyous Festival, Gaston La Touche

Link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Dixon Gallery and Gardens (no images).

In his subject matter and intention, late 19th century French painter Gaston La Touche was more influenced by the Rococo style of the 18th century than by his Impressionist contemporaries, but here he shows the bright colors and free brushwork he adopted in his later career.

I also have to wonder — in his portrayal of the lanterns and the figures lit by them — if hadn’t seen Sargent’s beautiful and influential Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.

The Joyous Festival, Google Art Project

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Kathryn Rathke (update)

May 2, 2016

Kathryn Rathke is a Seattle based illustrator who I first wrote about in 2010. Since then, she has continued to fill out her portfolio with her delightfully calligraphic digital “ink” drawings of figures and faces — some familiar, some less so — but all brimming with personality and character.

Her clients include Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, The Boston Globe, Paramount Pictures and American Express.

Rathke draws digitally in Photoshop, taking her sketches into Illustrator for final Vector line work and output. She manages in the process to keep the kind of free, gestural, almost scribbled line that many working in traditional media would envy.

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My previous post on Kathryn Rathke (2010)

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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh’s painted copy of Hiroshige print

May 1, 2016

Bridge in the rain: after Hiroshige, Vincent van Gogh. Zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikipedia; original is in the Van Gogh Museum.

Sudden shower over Shin-Ohashi bridge and Atake, Utagawa Hiroshige; file on Wikipedia.

About mid-way through his all too short career, Vincent van Gogh, like many of the French Impressionists he came to admire and associate with, developed a fascination with the Ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints that were becoming widely available in Europe at the time.

Van Gogh copied two prints by Utagawa Hiroshige directly as paintings, one of a Flowering Plum Tree (see my post on Not the Usual Van Goghs), and this one of Hiroshige’s now famous Sudden shower over Shin-Ōhashi bridge and Atake.

Van Gogh’s value relationships are quite different, and his painted version is of course very different in textural qualities, but the compositional elements, which appear to be his main fascination, appear quite true to the original.

Van Gogh created a painted frame as part of the image, decorated with characters from other Japanese prints.

Bridge in the rain: after Hiroshige, Vincent van Gogh; Google Art Project
Sudden shower over Shin-Ohashi bridge and Atake, Utagawa Hiroshige; Wikipedia.

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Eye Candy for Today, Gallery and Museum Art