Search results for: “silverpoint”
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Robert Tracy (update)
Robert Tracy is an artist I have written about previously. Tracy had not updated his website for some time, but recently added a number of older works he has made available for purchase. You can find even more of his work on his deviantART gallery, which contains an archive of pieces going back to 1965.…
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Stephen Scott Young
Stephen Scott Young is a renowned contemporary watercolorist and etcher whose works are in major collections and museums. Young was born in Hawaii, moved to Florida with his family at the age of 14, and studied printmaking at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota. His watercolor technique, which frequently makes use of drybrush, is…
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Leonardo’s Drawings
Leonardo da Vinci is one of those artists, like Rembrandt, Monet or Van Gogh, who is obscured from us by the brilliance of his fame. It is almost impossible to look at Leonardo without the attendant baggage of his reputation as the ultimate embodiment of the Renaissance, one of the most brilliant minds in history,…
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Robert Tracy
Robert Tracy is a self-trained artist who works in a variety of media — oil, watercolor, acrylic, pencil and even silverpoint. He also tackles a variety of subject matter — portraits, figures, still life and landscape. Over the years he has developed an approach he calls “romantic realism’. Unfortunately, to see much of his work…
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Fred Wessel
After taking a trip to Italy to view the art of the Renaissance, Fred Wessel was inspired to explore not only Renaissance painting techniques but the idea, common in that time but almost unknown now, of the painting as a precious object. His sharply incised portraits, nudes, flower studies and still lifes are often set…