Recent Posts Tagged With 'artists'

• Workspaces, studios and inspiration

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 12:16 in Photography, artists

  If you wish to peep a little in the workspaces of illustrators such as Kyle T Webster, don’t miss this selection in Drawger called Studio Tours. I like these photo collections, for the sake of decoration and interiorism, with a dash of voyeurism, a...

• Alberto Mielgo

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 14:22 in artists, digital

  An extraordinarily gifted painter / illustrator / concept art artist. He has a loose style and wonderful sense of colour that really pulls up every image he attemps to paint, both in digital or traditional media.Visit his blog or his personal website...

• From sketch to final digital illustration

  Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 03:35 in illustration, youtube, artists, sketches

  with the argentinian illustrator Delius. Her blog shows quite a bit of her sketchbooks and a comparison of the pencil drawings and the final digital artwork, like this example:Visit her site to see high resolution examples of these charming illustrat...

• Janusz Grabianski

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 01:00 in illustration, artists

  Janusz Grabianski (1929-1976) was a polish illustrator specialised in children's books. He used a bold and expressive watercolour and/or gouache technique in his artwork.He illustrated the 1001 nights, the Holy Bible, the Andersen and Grimm tales, qu...

• Milton Glaser: new retrospectives and documentaries

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 05:22 in graphic design, illustration, youtube, artists

  Milton Glaser’s Seeing Things is an exhibition of his drawings, watercolors, prints, giclées, and sketchbooks, and a collection of arts-related posters, all created over a span of 50 years. From May 2 through Sept. 12, 2009 in the Avram Gallery (S...

• Online gallery with my paintings

  Posted on Friday June 12th, 2009 at 06:39 in artists

  This is a correction of a previous post—the link was no longer correct.You can visit an online gallery with my paintings and works on paper from the nineties.Most of the works displayed are acrylics on canvas or paper. The paintings are partly abst...

• Matisse in Madrid

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 11:29 in artists

  Again in Madrid, another art highlight for the summer season. The Thyssen-Bornemisza collection presents an anthology of Matisse after his first fauvist period, encompassing his move to Nice in 1917 until the outbreak of WWII.“a beautiful and inten...

• La cuarta página de Enrique Flores

  Posted on Monday June 8th, 2009 at 05:23 in artists, journaling

  Compiles his witty and nice illustrations for El País newspaper, on the Libros de Blur website, which was commented here before....

• David Hockney and his iPhone

  Posted on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 16:53 in illustration, artists, digital

  English painter David Hockney has always been an enthusiast of new media and using imaging technologies. He never hesitates to experiment and introduce new ways of picturing and showing his work.He already did it in the eighties with his peculiar cop...

• Kevin Dart: interview and process

  Posted on Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 at 05:55 in illustration, artists

  Kevin Dart retro-inspired illustration is irresistible. I have just devoured a long interview and process discussion in the very recommended Grain edit blog....

• Joaquín Sorolla

  Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 05:13 in artists

  If you have to visit Madrid between this June and September 6th, you shouldn't miss the big retrospective of Joaquín Sorolla, the great master of the mediterranean light in painting.The exhibition in the Museo del Prado opens from 9:00 to 20:00h, tu...

• Art, not ad

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 01:31 in artists, curiosities

  Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images, something like the simulation shown here. Of course, it’s a bunch of art pictures what you get, not those red rectangles!The art shows are updated ever...

• Libros de Blur

  Posted on Friday March 27th, 2009 at 15:56 in graphic design, illustration, artists

  Blur is a spanish publisher specialised in illustrated books. A related blog, called Libros de Blur showcases some of their editions, with the permission of the authors.The handsome books are shown in detail through an online Issuu version. It’s fu...

• Browsing 1000 Heads

  Posted on Friday March 20th, 2009 at 10:45 in illustration, youtube, artists

  Here’s how the real thing looks:Find out more about the book here!...

• GRRRR

  Posted on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at 18:13 in artists, sketches

  Complicated name, intricate, astounding line drawings.Here: grrrr.netIn Open Source Publishing you’ll find an interview with the artist and some more samples of this work....

• João Fazenda, illustração

  Posted on Wednesday March 11th, 2009 at 09:21 in graphic design, illustration, artists

  Love the stylized illustration style by the portuguese designer João Fazenda. The unusual site navigation is also imaginative and engaging....

• João Catarino’s cadernos de viagem

  Posted on Saturday March 7th, 2009 at 06:13 in artists, watercolor, journaling

  João Catarino, a portuguese artist from Lisbon, is a very good draughtsman. His Desenhos do dia blog displays his cadernos de viagem (travel sketchbooks.)The title of the blog means “drawing of the day”—I don’t speak portuguese but luckily I...

• Speedpainting at Angoulême 2009

  Posted on Saturday March 7th, 2009 at 01:00 in comics, illustration, youtube, artists

  Cintiq tablet + Angoulême BD festival + great artists =Moebius_angouleme2009Speedpainting_masters angouleme 2009Seen on Pixeltv...

• Explorations and automatisms

  Posted on Friday March 6th, 2009 at 01:00 in youtube, artists, sketches

  A sketchbook with abstract, complex images related to some paintings from the same time.Pencil, ink, crayons, coloured pencils... A4 size.This kind of drawing lets you go and stretch out, seeking new directions for your art.The organic shapes sometim...

• Lori Nix's Disaster zone

  Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 01:00 in Photography, artists, curiosities

  Lori Nix is an artist who“...bends the line between truth and illusion in her photographs. She accomplishes this by photographing miniatures and models which illuminate her interest in the disaster movies of the 1970s and her memories of growing up...

• Moleskine travels

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 00:58 in illustration, artists, sketches, journaling

  As I've mentioned here before, now and then I like to visit Youtube, and watch travel sketchbooks like these:Stefano Faravelli.The Clermont-Ferrand biennale de carnets de voyage is a great place for those interested in travel sketchbooks.The Detour ...

• 1000 Heads: the book

  Posted on Saturday February 28th, 2009 at 19:26 in illustration, artists

  1000 Heads is an imaginative collection of illustrations in which the human head experiments the strangest transformations, actions and variations.Let me guide you in this imaginative, fascinating and mesmerizing trip through the world of symbols, as...

• Cati Somolinos: te conté que...

  Posted on Monday February 23rd, 2009 at 01:00 in artists, journaling

  A spanish artist from Asturias, northern Spain, who shares her travel sketchbooks and her delicate watercolours and drawings online. Small pieces of everyday life, quiet pieces of lansdscape.I have run into her work recently, and it seems to be quite...

• Joaquín González Dorao

  Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at 10:22 in artists, watercolor, journaling

  Although I have discovered his travel watercolours in Isuu, where he has collected some works as travel diaries, Joaquín González is a versatile illustrator whose work in children's books, educational books and editorial illustration can be found i...

• Les 24 heures de la bande dessinée

  Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 15:53 in comics, artists

  Linked to the Angoulême Festival that closed this last Sunday, this comic drawing marathon is unique in the world: it gathers more than 400 participants, both professional artists, amateurs and students.25 artists were present physically in Angoulê...

• Rokuro Taniuchi

  Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 02:04 in illustration, artists

  The illustrations by the late japanese artist Rokuro Taniuchi (1921 - 1981) are delicious. There is always some magical or unexpected element.Yet another great illustrator I hadn't heard of! Thanks to A Journey round my skull, a place where it is pos...

• Juan Berrio's Moleskine Puppet House

  Posted on Tuesday January 27th, 2009 at 07:32 in illustration, artists, curiosities

  Both the making of... shown in this video, and the final results are awesome....

• Neal Halstead's Oh! mighty engine

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 18:12 in artists

  This record is extraordinary. Acoustic, intimate, delicious. Superb melodies, enigmatic and clever lyrics (you creative types will enjoy No mercy for the muse). Among the best things I've listened to in a long long time. Neal Halstead (Mojave 3) has ...

• Lorenzo Mattotti

  Posted on Thursday January 8th, 2009 at 02:39 in comics, illustration, artists

  These are some videos about one of my favourite comic artists and illustrators, Lorenzo Mattotti. Of course, first you should visit his website.Those videoclips at Youtube work as usual on your own browser (provided that you have the Flash player ins...

• Caroline Havers

  Posted on Tuesday December 23rd, 2008 at 01:00 in artists, Flickr

  Caroline Havers (1959)is a dutch artist who paints colourful, passionate canvases. Many of her works can be seen online on her Flickr page (user name: carolinepaintings), together with sketches, ongoing work and other details of the creative process....