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  • Winter Solstice 2013

    A few winter images to mark the winter solstice today. If you want more, revisit Irene Gallo’s “Picturing Winter: A Solstice Celebration” from 2011. Images above: John Henry Twachtman, Gustave Courbet, Caspar David Friedrich, Antoine Blanchard, Albert Bierstadt, Ivan Bilibin, Neil Welliver, Alphonse Mucha, Ivan Shishkin, Maxfield Parrish, Andrew Wyeth, N.C. Wyeth, Toshi Yoshida)

  • My Articles for Answers.com

    I was asked to be the Answers.com “Category Expert Writer” for a period of several months in 2013-2014, writing articles for the category of Painting: http://painting.answers.com These were my contributions. February 2014 An Introduction to Plein Air Painting Beautiful Highlights from the History of Landscape Painting Make Painting Easier by Using the Sight-size Method Vincent…

  • Self-portraits #7

    “Selfies” were in the news again today, as the press evidently felt that the U.S. president taking one of himself and some other world leaders at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service was a newsworthy event (sigh). Here are some more artists’ “selfies”, done with brush or graphite. (Images above: Diego Rivera, George Tooker, Frits Thaulow, Jean…

  • My Articles on Painting for Answers.com

    As an adjunct to their long-established model of direct questions and answers, Answers.com has launched a new “Category Expert Writer” program, in which writers with expertise in various areas contribute an ongoing series of short, informative articles in their field. (As far as I know, they are still expanding the program. The information on applying…

  • Picturing Summer, a Solstice Celebration on Tor.com

    Following up on her terrific previous posts of Picturing Winter, a Solstice Celebration and Picturing Spring, an Equinox Celebration, Irene Gallo has once again invited an array of artists and art directors to give her their suggestions for favorite seasonal images, this time for Picturing Summer, a Solstice Celebration. As in those previous posts, the…

  • Daniel Sponton

    There is a fascination to drawings and paintings in which many figures are arrayed in the same space, often in a semi-aerial view that allows for lots of them to be seen at once. Argentinian cartoonist and illustrator Daniel Sponton has developed an illustration style that features hundreds of small figures arranged in sometimes complex…