Explore diverse children book illustration styles with an in-depth analysis of artistic techniques and many examples.
Painting, 1946 @ The Estate of Francis Bacon ""I think that life is violent and most people turn away from that side of it in an attempt to live a life that is screened. But I think they are merely fooling themselves. I mean, the act of birth is a violent thing, and the act of death is a violent
A painting by Alex Colville shattered the artist's previous auction record at a sale held Wednesday in Toronto.
"In the portrait of that house, the windows are eyes or pieces of the soul almost. To me, each window is a different part of Christina's life...there's an upstairs window that has a pink feeling. That's her bedroom. I wanted each one of these windows to tell part of the whole story-they were not just stuck in there by chance. Each has its specific role in helping to explain the overall personality of the portrait of the house and its occupants." ...there is a piece of glass that's dropped out of one of the windows, and I was fascinated by the clothes that Alvaro stuffed in a broken pane so the cold wind would't blow through." Alvaro's New England resourcefulness also reveals itself in the the rope and funnel contraption rigged up at the base of the drainpipe to carry water to the bucket outside the kitchen door. Wyeth has even recorded a symbol of his own involvement with the Olson house: Just above the kitchen roof are a few pieces of white siding patched in among the gray clapboards. According to Wyeth, "Those are out of my own house. Alvaro wanted me to repair it and I did" -Andrew Wyeth Andrew Wyeth [American Contemporary Realist Painter, 1917-2009] Second of three generations of Wyeth artists. The best known of the Wyeths, Andrew Wyeth was taught by his father, artist and illustrator N.C. Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth is father of Jamie Wyeth, third generation contemporary realist painter. Credit to the fascinating blog 'I Witness' for the primary image: mrebks.blogspot.com/search?q=WYETH Official Andrew Wyeth website: andrewwyeth.com/ Farnsworth Museum, Wyeth works: collection.farnsworthmuseum.org/objects?query=wyeth&f... Andrew Wyeth image permission requests, artist's estate: andrewwyeth.com/image-permission/ ___________ Light restoration by plumleaves
There’s an innocent and simple quality to Chinese illustrator Oamul Lu‘s work. I love his animated GIFs, which come to life with just the slighted and most subtle movements. If only I can spend a day…
There is something vigorously American about the art of Bo Bartlett, including beautiful portents of doom and eery celebrations of coastal life. read more
10 fabulous free printable collection of natural history posters. More specifically, birds, insects and butterfly posters by Adolphe Millot.
Le temps gris et maussade qui a envahi Paris ces derniers jours m’a poussée à chercher de belles images colorées pour me remonter le moral. C’est sans hésiter vers Raoul Dufy, l’u…
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Tang Yau Hoong is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is known for his fascinating negative space
we recently spoke to the LA-based artist who works across a great variety of media including graphic design, illustration and animation.
M.C. Escher, or Maurits Cornelis Escher, was a graphic artist known for his creative, and mind-boggling drawings, woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.
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