Now that school is out, the next best place to read a book is at the beach, on a hammock, in the garden, or outside on a starry summer night. And here are the drawings and paintings to prove it.
In anticipation for the upcoming beautiful.bizarre curated exhibition 'Bitter | Sweet', opening this Saturday 18March at 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, we reached out to Alexandra Levasseur one of the contributing artists. Currently living and working in Montreal, Canada, Alexandra has created work that whispers intimate and beautiful secrets. Creeping rose vines twist around glaciers and glittering stalactites. A girl dreams while an arrow on fire burns bright, piercing her heart. Pastel swaths of impasto paint surround and penetrate these beings, deeply pensive in their solitude, Alexandra's work is a gorgeous illusory and allegorical world, close enough to pour over with the eyes but deep enough to become lost within. Read on for a sneak peak at Alexandra's gorgeous contributions to the show, and a deeper look at an artist's process. https://youtu.be/YrMJnZnRAp0 Time lapse video of
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Life’s not easy for a fantasy fan nowadays. Where a few decades ago there wasn’t a lot of great material around you now have a choice in thousands of books, films and series being released each year. With the arrival of the internet, the supply only grew, making it almost too hard to choose what to read or see next. With the huge range of great fiction available came a wave of talented fantasy inspired artists as well. Watercolor works, digital drawings or stunning oil paintings, there’s something to love for everyone. One artist that stands out in that massive amount of fantasy-inspired art is illustrator Rebecca Yanovskaya. Rebecca Yanovskaya is an illustration graduate living and working in Toronto, Canada. If you’ve come across her work before you’ll immediately recognize her unique style. All of her
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Pompeo Batoni - Cleopatra and Markus Antonius. I may have just found a new favorite painting, but I can’t find a high quality version anyway/there seem to be no books in the world about Pompeo Batoni,...
Pope Francis has called us to evangelize the world. Jesus Christ also called us to evangelize the world. That is our Great Commission as believing
Fosse… anche l’unico canto libero di Ophelia lasciami sfumare così infiorata di mia follia in assolo del fato che mi trascina via... ~ Catherine La Rose© ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser was a German painter from Gnoien/Dresden. He began studying at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Leon Pohle and Paul Mohn. After initially spending three years in Dresden, he attended the Kunsthochschule in Karlsruhe and then the Académie Julian in Paris. After completing his studies Heyser devoted himself mainly to portraits and historical paintings. Among the portrayed were numerous prominent figures such as Prince Regent Albrecht of Braunschweig, Prince Albrecht of Prussia and Prince Johann Georg of Saxony. In addition, Heyser created genre pictures, whose representations were based on German poetry, for example, "The Fisherman" after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1886).
If you’re a regular round here you’ll already know I love Canada based artist Maria Pace-Wynters‘ vibrant, beautiful paintings. I was recently so inspired by her style of portraiture that I was moved to create a painting of my own in a similar vein. Like many of us, she has been making art since childhood, […]
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Ed Binkley is an award-winning fantasy artist whose work has appeared in leading competitive journals and exhibits worldwide.
Annie French ~ The Briar Maiden ~ pen and ink with watercolor
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There is a marvelous art exhibition you absolutely wouldn't want to miss! If you love beautiful, intricate, and delicate new-contemporary artworks, you would definitely fall in love with everything you see in this group exhibition.
Before I realized I really wouldn’t have much wall space in the “studio,” I started collecting images of art that was textile or needleart-related, with the intention of finding a framable print or two for the walls in my project room. While organizing some of the image files (I have over 60,000 pictures on my ...
An exclusive interview with Kazuhiro Hori in anticipation of his participation in the beautiful.bizarre curated exhibition Bitter | Sweet @ 19 Karen
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Walter H. Everett (1880-1946), a student of the great Howard Pyle, was an exceptionally good illustrator who had a couple of character flaws. One was an inability to meet deadlines, a trait that surely impeded his career. Another problem emerged late in life when he destroyed many of his works. Some assert that he got rid of what he considered lesser stuff, and there might be something to that idea because a number of fine paintings of his still exist. I wrote about Everett here and here. The Kelly Collection holds an important Everett: a link is here. Armand Cabrera provides some biographical information here. Cabrera's post is illustrated using examples mostly from an early phase of his career, before he developed his mature style. It is Everett's mature illustrations that astonish me. Fortunately, there are at least two examples of his work that seem to be unfinished because of their appearance and the lack of a signature. They therefore provide interesting clues as to how Everett went about building up his classic images. Gallery This is one of Everett's finest works to set the scene. Click on it and the others to enlarge. For comparison, here is a finished (or nearly so) illustration with similar colors to the unfinished examples below. Some internet sites displaying this image state that the man is a soldier. From what I can tell, the setting is the American Southwest, most likely northern New Mexico. The man is dressed in riding or work clothes, not an army uniform. Everett blocks in the image using lines and flatly painted areas laid over an undertone wash or scumble. He then works on background detail before tackling the foreground. Faces and other key details are painted in the round, most of the rest being larger and smaller areas of flat paint. * * * * * UPDATE (9 January 2016): I'm wondering if the three illustrations immediately above were all part of the same project that got canceled. The subjects and color schemes are related. The illustration that seems finished has not been signed (unless a signature got cropped). Does any reader know exactly what we have here?
Otto Mueller was born in Liebau in German Silesia. Between 1890-1892 he was trained in lithography. From 1894 to 1896 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and continued his study in Munich 1898. He left Munich's academy after Franz von Stuck classified him as untalented. His early works are influenced by impressionism, Jugendstil and symbolism. From 1908, he turned more and more to expressionism. During this time there were meetings with Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Rainer Maria Rilke and Erich Heckel. In 1910, he joined 'Die Brücke', a Dresden-based group of Expressionist artists. He was member of the group until it disbanded in 1913 . At the same time Mueller also had contact with the artists group of the 'Blaue Reiter'. During the World War I he fought as a German soldier in France and Russia. After the war he became professor at the academy of arts in Breslau where he taught until his death. Altogether his printmaking amounted to 172 prints, in woodcut, etching and lithography. In 1937 the Nazis seized 357 of his works from German museums, since the pictures were considered as degenerate art. Mueller was one of the most lyrical of German expressionist painters. The central topic in Mueller's works is the unity of humans and nature, whereas his paintings are focused on a harmonious simplification of form, color and contours. He is especially known for his characteristic paintings of nudes and gypsy women.
Auguste Toulmouche’s 1866 painting “The Hesitant Fiancée” is making the rounds on TikTok FYPs across the globe, inviting women of all ages to not only marvel at and meme-ify the bride’s pissed off scowl, but see themselves in it, too.
