Big: Elephants Where They Don’t Belong part 2
In this blogpost and the last we look at the lively presence of elephants in artwork — in lands where elephants have never roamed. …
Big: Elephants Where They Don’t Belong part 1
Babar the Elephant by Jean de Brunhoff (originally in French) via Muse Reviews Elephants are big in non-native cultures like the United States, …
About “John Saturnall’s Feast” part 2
A critic once described the painter James Ensor’s inner world as too redolent of pitiable psychological distortions for me to visit longer than half …
About “John Saturnall’s Feast” part 1
Book illustration by Andrew Davidson via food orleans Should you choose to partake of Lawrence Norfolk’s new novel John …
Revisiting New Work by Artists Profiled in 2012
Shinichi Maruyama, Nude #2, 2012 Here’s new work from artists we’ve looked at earlier in 2012 — let’s close out the year with art full …
Jubilation! It’s Back!
Nodewerk art by bas-space (Sloan) In September I did a week of posts about the demise if the program Peacock along with the …
Painted Seas
Northeaster by Winslow Homer via WikiCommons My last blogpost got me looking at seascapes and how intensely painters have shown us …
A Trail of Herrings
The Herring Net by Winslow Homer via Wikimedia In Winslow Homer’s The Herring Net you don’t see the …
Quick heads-up on free textures
CG Textures, an endless compendium of images, is just now processing a new batch of animal and bird photographs. Glorious! If you don’t already have …
Massive Motions
Ocean image via creepypasta.wikia.com Earth’s surface is about 70 percent water, almost all of it in constant motion. Tides, currents, roaring rivers, meadow brooks. Even glaciers …
Election Week
Scientific American (September 2012) reported research that the brain may sleep in parts, not all at once. The article was about how a sleeping person …
Get There and Vote
Statue of Liberty image via emancipationfromslavery.com If you are a citizen of a democracy, vote. If you are a US citizen, today is …
13, or 2, Ways of Seeing
Buddha, by Nam June Paik TV Buddha by Nam June Paik via paikstudios TV Buddha by Nam June Paik via thefaketory Buddha …
mousemade (adj.)
There’s a new player on the web called Creative Market. They describe their wares as mousemade, a term I’ve long sought. Not handmade, not machine-made. And …
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds “unusual rock”
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds “unusual rock”. [BBC News – Science & Environment] NASA/JPL-Caltech image via BBC News I’ve been …
A Powerful Pattern-Making Venue Online
I’m a pattern-making maniac and can personally vouch for the company we look at today, Artlandia. I’ve used their software since at least 2006 …
Slitscan for You
This is the third in a series about photography techniques that provide artistic distortions. Dali re-constructed, a slitscan photo by Duncan Creamer …
Slitscan
This is the second in a series about photography techniques that can provide artistic distortions. Slitscan photography and videography. Artists are already at work in …
Distortion As a Skill
Panning Peripheral Portrait of Linda by Andrew Davidhazy via his website Look at this photograph and ask yourself, Could Picasso visualize such distortions in …