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One of the great Japanese woodblock artists, Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) was especially noted for his exquisitely detailed, evocative prints of landscapes around the world. His work is beautiful, subtle and often atmospheric, displaying a real mastery of his technique, which allowed him to capture the subtleties of light and form. Yoshida often reused the same woodblocks, varying the colours and saturation to suggest alternate moods of the same scene – a different time of day, or even different weather conditions. Initially trained as a painter (of some renown), Yoshida began working with woodblocks in the early 1920s, and after a meeting with the owner of the Watanabe Print Store in Tokyo he had his first series of prints published. The woodblock technique is notoriously time-consuming and difficult, but Yoshida seemed able to capture the most delicate graduations of colour and the tiniest details in a temple façade or mountain face. Yoshida was a keen traveller and visited numerous countries from the early 1900s onwards - his cosmopolitan attitude is reflected in the landscapes and studies he created in countries like India and America. The traditional Japanese techniques in his work applied to a changing foreign world at the beginning of the 20th Century make for some fascinating, unexpected images, which sit comfortably alongside his more elegiac landscapes. Whilst the world has changed almost immeasurably in the 50 or so years since Yoshida died, when viewed today, well-kept examples of his woodblocks still have a real vibrancy and warmth to them. Yoshida died in 1950 but his two sons Toshi and Hodaka both became respected woodblock artists in their own right, carrying on the family tradtion. In fact, since the mid-1800s the same Yoshida family - Hiroshi's forebears - has produced eight artists of serious renown – a veritable woodblock dynasty. Boat in dry dock, Kinoe Grand Canyon (Bright Variant), 1925 The Cherry Tree In Kawagoe, 1935 Obatan Parrot II, 1926 Yarigate, date unknown Yomei Gate, 1937 Taj Mahal, 1931 Taj Mahal, Night, 1931 Snake Charmers, 1932 Sketch of a Tiger, 1926 Kinkaku, 1933 Kameido Bridge, 1927 Iris Garden In Horikiri, 1928 Obatan Parrot, 1926 Icho In Autumn, 1926 Udaipur 1931 Early Morning, Fujiyama, 1928 Elephant, 1931 Eboshidake, 1926 Cryptomeria Avenue, 1937 Climbing Snow Valley, 1926 Cave Temple In Ellora, 1932 Breithorn, date unknown Avenue Of Cherry Trees, 1935 Konoshima, 1935 All images © Estate of Hiroshi Yoshida
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Broadway performances of Some Like It Hot will begin Nov. 1 at the Shubert Theatre
Ms. Roach Coach is here to provide! just gonna copy-paste my old description- might contain some lemon-y drawings! please do not shove this on anyone's faces especially the Cc's I am not shipping them in real life, I ship their personas that they show online and in Minecraft. If you don't like any of this, please just ignore. do not use my art without permission, do not repost aswell and if you know me irl no you don't
brøther would you spære a lööp? This listing is a digital PDF, not a physical object. ★ Facts: Number of colors: 12 Stitches: 88 x 87 Size on 14 count aida: 6 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches • SIZING NOTE: Although this pattern is 6 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, please note that the bottom text extends to the corners of the square area. This means a circular hoop might not fit the corners of the text unless you use a big enough size. I recommend at least a 9'' hoop if you are going to stitch on 14 count. ★ What you get: 1 digital PDF with DMC color codes, a colored and a monochrome pattern. ★Due to this listing being available to download upon purchase, I cannot issue refunds. However, if you have any problems with your file, please let me know and I will try my best to assist you!
26 No-Context Images of Strangeness to Give Your Day Some "Thanks, I Hate It" - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
Cooking—it’s that optional thing that we do when we don’t want to look like lazy good-for-nothings eating cheese and salami straight out of the pack and munching on raw vegetables instead of making a salad. Even cavemen and barbarians were able to cook things well. But even with the help of modern technology, we sometimes end up absolutely butchering our meals and making mega cooking fails.
What happens when a cold person and her bubbly sister join class 1-A, making people fall in love with them. No matter if they're villains, rival students, or just classmates. Will the cold female fall in love, when she doesn't even believe in such a word? *THIS STORY WILL INCLUDE SOME PARTS WHERE THE CHARACTER ARE NOT TEXTING* *WILL HAVE CUSSING* *I DO NOT OWN BNHA* *I DO NOT OWN ANY GIFS OR PHOTOS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THE STORY unless I say it's mine*
Frenzy of Exultations by Władysław Podkowiński, 1893 (via)
Layer upon layer, but they are slowly being peeled away-can't wait to see brown cork! Oh geez, May is busy. Blogging has taken a back seat, far far in the back. And the more I get behind the more I feel like "why catch up?" and then I just decide to not even try. I hope everyone had a nice Mother's Day-it was beautiful here, and busy, and it was just like every other day. We went to church, even though Abbey came a little late because she had a very early ACT class, it was SO nice to have everyone together in one pew. That was what I really wanted more than anything for Mother's Day! In the news: Poor Andrew is on the mend from a broken wrist-we bought a slack line for the kids this Christmas, and it was so fun-until this injury. This puts a damper on the beginning swim team practices and he is very disappointed. Patrick lost another tooth in a soccer incident. He wrote a cute note to the tooth fairy, telling her to please leave his tooth, he wanted it as a souvenir. I am SO enjoying sending boys outside to play though, injuries or not! We are doing a house addition/renovation. We have thought about doing this for years and years and finally decided last fall to go for it. I love our neighborhood, I love our neighbors, I love our house, I love our yard. I want my grand kids coming to visit me here one day in the future, so we decided moving was out of the question. And Abbey said it best, "If we move, I'll leave for college and I will have to come back to a house that never even felt like home." I wish I could say it was fun and exciting but I just want to pretend the extra space all magically appeared one day. No endless decisions (I know some people think this is fun, I don't), no hassle, no inconvenience, no worry, no pounding, no strangers in your house all day-that is what I look forward to. Six more weeks. They promised. I remind the contractors of that every single day. I can't wait till it's all over! Here is the best thing I ever found on Pinterest by the way: Isn't that true? The stars make me feel small and make what's most important in life stand out. Usually I find the time to gaze at them for about 60 seconds between parking the car and walking in the house after picking some milk up at the grocery store, but that 60 seconds makes all the difference in the world. May Crowning was so beautiful. So is this little girl. She is getting too big though isn't she? But I have the whole summer to say she is just one. And her legs still have chubby rolls. Isaac is home from college. Some good books I've read lately: This is excellent. If you have a pre-teen or teenage girl, this book is so informative about the real struggles are girls are facing with our crazy culture today. I ordered Dr. Sax's other two books right after I finished this one. I think this book should be a textbook for a mandatory class in high school. It's really really good. I loved this book! Honestly, I could not put this book down-well I had to of course, but the whole time I wasn't reading it, I was waiting till I had a chance to sneak away and pick it up again. If I could have put toothpicks in my eyelids at night to keep reading I would have. I hid in the bathroom for a few minutes to finish a chapter. It was so so good. I wanted to attempt this book but my May brain won't let me right now. I'm going to save it for later-like September later.
South Korea-based artist Seung-Hwan Oh creates some truly unusual portraits by unleashing little microbes and letting them eat away at his medium for
"To live is to war with trolls." -- Henrik Ibsen One of the most interesting stories from Deborah Solomon's new biography of Norman Rockwell involves his famous series of paintings, the Four Freedoms. During World War II, Rockwell wanted to aid the war effort but was too old to enlist and not physically suited to be a fighter. He set out instead to illustrate Franklin Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" in a way that would inspire patriotism and encourage the purchase of war bonds. After sketching his four paintings, Rockwell went to Washington to donate his art to the government but the government wasn't interested. Rockwell showed his drafts to the Office of War Information but the official in charge responded: The last war, you illustrators did the posters. This war we're going to use fine arts men, real artists. If you want to make a contribution to the war effort you can do some of these pen and ink drawings for the Marine Corps calisthenics manual. Solomon deduces that the official who rejected Rockwell's art was the "pompous" Archibald MacLeish, poet and Pulitzer prize winning playwright. MacLeish was the Assistant Director of the agency. He said he preferred to inspire the country with pictures from "real" artists such as Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali and Japanese artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi (6 months after Pearl Harbor!) Rarely has a misguided act of cultural arrogance been so promptly, thoroughly and satisfyingly refuted. Stung, Rockwell took the rejected paintings to the Saturday Evening Post which used them as internal illustrations. Editor Ben Hibbs later wrote: The results astonished us all....Requests to reprint flooded in from other publications. Various government agencies and private organizations made millions of reprints and distributed them not only in this country but all over the world. Those four pictures quickly became the best known and most appreciated paintings of that era. They appeared right at a time when when the war was going against us on the battle fronts, and the American people needed the inspirational message which they conveyed so forcefully and so beautifully. Subsequently the Treasury Department took the original paintings on a tour of the nation as the centerpiece of a Post art show to sell war bonds. They were viewed by 1,222,000 people in 16 leading cities and were instrumental in selling $132,992,539 worth of bonds. The Post received 60,000 letters about the paintings: In the meantime, the imperious Archibald MacLeish lasted a mere eight months in his job at the Office of War Information. After he left, the OWI sent a film crew to Rockwell's studio and filmed a five minute newsreel about his Four Freedoms. The government's newsreel played in movie theaters around the country. MacLeish was a brilliant intellectual but he let his reflexive cultural arrogance substitute for thinking about what type of art would be effective. In doing so, he became just one more of those obstructive trolls described by Ibsen.
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Today I stood about five feet from a man who knows how to draw. You might think that a lot of people know how to draw.. But Glen Keane KNOWS how to draw. I listened for a few hours to all his knowledge and insight and it was very inspirational to see him draw and talk. Even though it seems as the drawing magically flows from his pencil, there is no magic, there are no tricks. Even Glen himself stressed that all he is doing is basic drawing principles. It might be comforting to imagine that good drawing takes deep understanding of the cosmos and the insight of line and only deities such as Glen Keane are genius enough to penetrate the mysteries of the pencil... (and all the animation geeks start slobbering on cue) But isn't it more empowering and motivating to know he accomplishes these great flawless drawings based on a few drawing principles we all learned in college? The only difference is that he executes THE PRINCIPLES while the most of us forget them. Glen Kleane stressed three words over and over.. Rhythm, Tilt, and Twist. When a drawing looks bad, it most likely lacks either one or more (rhythm,tilt, or twist) DANNY WHAT DO THESE WORDS MEAN?? TELL US HIS SECRETS!!! RHYTHM: (see picture above and below) The over all movement of the drawing. IT IS NOT the line of action. The line of action is a huge understatement of what rhythm is. Rhythm is how each line curves into the next. And how each line contributes to the over all shape of the drawing. Glen Keane used a river as an analogy. He said imagine that you view a river from above, and you see the curves and the bends the water makes and how the landscape controls where the water flows. Everything works together to give the river it's overall rhythm. So in a drawing, every line flows and curves into each other creating a rythm. it'll capture your eyes lead it around the drawing in a sort of dance. TILT: A very basic principle, if your hips are tilted one way, your shoulders are tilted the other way, and then your head is tilted the opposite way etc etc. Glen said if you ever have a stiff drawing, it's most likely because it lacks tilt. Twist: Instead of standing figure looking at you straight on you can add some twist to it. The legs are one way, while the torso is facing another.. You can draw lines suggesting the 3D Form of your character even though it is literally a flat drawing. It was a real treat watching Glen Keane draw in person. it was fun watching people geek out over Glen Keane in person. I'm never one to geek out over people like Glen or Deja. Even when I first started working at Pixar and I would see Pete or John walking around. I wasn't raised on animation. I'm not an animation geek nor do I really worship any ones style in art. I respect and am interested in artists and recognize when they are VERY talented.. but these people are just people. They are artists and you all have the same potential inside of you to do what they do. It when you start to worship these artist like gods that you disconnect with their art. You imagine their art to be heaven sent when in reality it's made with human hands.. just like yours. Do not distance yourself and your dreams by imagining that there's a kingdom where only great artist live, great artist look like you and me and live in one bedroom apartments too. So next time you are about to geek out, try to calm down and breathe... because people can smell someone geeking out a mile away and it's not sexy at all. Stay classy. -Daniel Gonzales
Chéri Hérouard (1881-1961) was a French artist known for his numerous illustrations for the magazine La Vie Parisienne. Here are some of my favorite of his works - they're sometimes humorous, often sentimental, and always whimsical! Sorry for the watermark, it was the only version I could find of this with high resolution! That Santa Clause lurking in the corner is more than a little creepy, but everything is lovely. The Charleston dance Mmm, I love her coat and muff!! "The Season of Nests - An Error!" The Revenge of Eve / Eve's Revenge - Emily P.S - On a totally unrelated note, Gidget is on TCM this Sunday at 12 pm noon! Released in 1959, this is way past the era I usually watch in old films, but this one is a gem. Gracie introduced me to it senior year of high school (she also watched the Gidget spin-off TV show when she was a kid) and boy am I glad! I find it very charming and heartwarming, plus, Sandra Dee is just adorable! Give it a watch if you haven't already! A candid of Sandra Dee on the set of Gidget. Gidget with frighteningly red-tan Moondoggie and Kahoona.
Stratford Festival production is elegant, acting is impressive, but Michel Marc Bouchard's script gives us too much food for thought.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist A lovely illustration print on a one of a kind page from an old vintage encyclopedia. The page gets upcycled and re-imagined as an art print. SIZE: Dimensions of the encyclopedia page: 17.5 cm x 26.4 cm (6 7/8'' x 10 3/8'' approx.) Frame and matting/mount board not included! PAGE: Printed on a beautifully yellowed vintage page from the 'Chambers's Encyclopedia, Volume I' originally published in 1925. The actual print you will receive will be on a different page than the one shown in the listing. No two prints will ever be the same, each is a one of a kind, as they will be printed on a different page from the same encyclopedia volume. Please note that the pages are upcycled from an old volume, so it will display some imperfections such as yellowing, foxing and all the beautiful signs of age on paper this old. SHIPPING: Shipping worldwide. The page will be carefully packed on a clear plastic sleeve and sent to you protected on a card backed envelope ready to mount on your favorite frame! Frame and matting/mount board not included! And, of course, the watermark will not be printed. Custom quotes are of course welcomed, just send me a message and I will try my very best to create it for you! :) :) Have a look at other prints and quotes for book lovers here: http://www.cartabancards.etsy.com Thanks!!
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We may not be an artist, but we can all doodle - The life of a story is in the detail, so tell your story with a few doodle pictures and see it come to life
Individually wrapped, numbered and signed prints on high quality card paper. 15cm by 21cm. From the "Samples from the lab" series ....color pencil drawings featuring some quirky and bemused genetic experiments ... All prints come in a plastic sleeve and mailed in a stiff non-bendable mailer in order to prevent damage. Perfect for framing 10% of All Proceeds Go To World Wild LIfe Fund.
Bibliosmia (n.) The smell and aroma of old or good books.
