Spring geese! We had the prompt “birbs” in a chat group and I grabbed a reference photo while biking in to work the other day. I am really happy with how this turned out!
Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker Hokusai died #OTD in 1849.
The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji are noteworthy not only for their beauty and technical prowess but also for the cultural significance of Mount Fuji in Japan. Hokusai's innovative use of the then-new Prussian blue pigment helped to popularize his prints during his lifetime and influenced not only Japanese art but also Western artists like Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet.
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I'm done with the big bestiary! Here are some pictures for you. I hope you like it.
(Sorry, it is sold!) #MastoArt#illumination#painting#fediart
What an incredible piece of art ! This book will delight flower lovers and artists alike. I am in love with all these beautiful flowers. So many details and colors ! This book is visually captivating and an interesting guide of common meadow and garden plants and flowers.
I am making a website of my grandfather, Raymond “Joe” Loudon’s art. Artists like him have virtually no presence on the internet, which is hardly surprising, but a shame.
The largest part of the job is getting my photogrammetry of his carvings working - they are probably his strongest work. But he was a published poet, and his paintings were pretty good too:
We used to paint together when I was a teenager. I wouldn’t say he taught me how to paint, our approaches were quite different. He almost sculpted his pictures, big, slow, definite motions. Lots of consideration. Whereas I flit about my paintings like butterfly with concentration deficit.
His painting is the first one, mine the second. I think he cheated and made up the kangaroo, I don’t remember it there.
At last we actually have spring weather here and it's slowly getting a little warmer. It's beginning to look more colourful in my garden as everything begins to flower which will make the bees happy.
Shuvuuia deserti was a small maniraptoran theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Its short, strong arm might have been used for digging, perhaps into insect mounds.
In 2004 I played with a book idea but never took it to a publisher. I did 100 draft drawings for the proposal (never completed), I'll post a few more throughout today. First is Archelon.
New art thread for 2024 starts here! This is a mostly daily thread with a different artist featured in each post, primarily modern and contemporary stuff since that's my thing.
Paintings by Palestinian artist Juliana Seraphim, 1960s-90s, who fled to Lebanon during the 1948 Nakba and worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East before studying painting.