Leo Espinosa in Boston, MA (Sept 12 - Dec 26)
If you’re in Boston next week, make sure to stop by the New England Gallery of Latin American Art to check out the opening of Leo Espinosa’s (previously) LIMBO show.
Read the rest of the story...New Web Site for The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where I had the privilege of being a painting major when I was younger, is the oldest art school in the United States. Modeled after the academic schools of Europe, it has a long tradition of training American artists and a correspondingly long history of collecting American art [...]
Read the rest of the story...More Fractals on COLORlovers
The COLORlovers blog, which I mentioned in this post and in my post on the History of the Color Wheel, has posted an article with a nice collection of Fractal Art.
I find these kinds of images, created by manipulating the paramaters by which certain mathematical functions are interpreted, to be endlessly fascinating; both for [...]
Flying Pizza Kitty
Blurring the line between webcomic, animation, and 8-bit video game is Flying Pizza Kitty, a series of animated GIFs from the prolific Ben Ross.
Some of Ben’s other projects:
Robot Comix
The Heather and Ben Show
Stunt Kitty
Stefan Glerum on crate-digging
Artist Stefan Glerum has posted a series of drawings depicting the downsides of crate-digging, the act of scouring garage sales and record shops for obscure pieces of vinyl to add to one’s collection. The drawings are perfectly twisted and use typography in a particularly playful way. I hope to see more.
Read the rest of the story...Ronald Searle cover collection
What a great collection of Ronald Searle book covers from a blog called the Caustic Cover Critic!
Previously:
Ronald Searle’s process
Searle’s Secret Sketchbook
Dear Lulu: sample book for testing digital printing
Speak Up recently took a look at Dear Lulu an extremely useful and imaginative sample book desgined to test the digital printing capabilities of print-on-demand service Lulu. The book was put together by 14 students and a professor at a workshop at Germany’s Hochschule Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, and tests various colour modes, type [...]
Read the rest of the story...Scott McCloud’s Info-comic for Google Chrome
In his role as one of the main analysts and thinkers on the subject of the comics art form, and the author of several widely acclaimed books on the subject in which he discusses the medium in the medium, presenting his thoughts in the form of graphic narrative; Scott McCloud has in the process [...]
Read the rest of the story...Art and the River
In the late 19th and early 20th Century, New York and Boston were major centers of American Impressionism. These were American artists who had traveled to Europe and encountered the French Impressionists and their daring new approach to painting, or had been impressed by their work in exhibits mounted in the U.S., and incorporated some [...]
Read the rest of the story...Totoro online bidding begins
Online bidding is open for the amazing selection of Totoro-inspired art over at the Totoro Forest Project.
Basically, you can just go to any image on the art gallery page and bid on that item. But there are more detailed instructions on bidding here.
The Totoro Forest Project is an initiative by a group [...]
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