Monday, January 22nd, 2007
and more Leyendecker..
A friend sent me this link to the studies below from Leyendecker, there are more pics than what I posted here.
Thanks Ted.
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
Leyendecker pt.3
this is the last batch of photo’s that deal with portriature and some early work.
Monday, November 13th, 2006
the Leyendecker show..pt1.
last weekend some friends and I went to see the Leyendecker exibit at the Haggin museum in the art mecca of Stockton, Ca. Going to the show my expectations were real low, come on how many pieces could there possibly be, 5 -6? At least the trip was planned so we would get in for free, the first saturday of every month is free admission. The drive there was about a hour and a half and once inside the museum, I was suprised to say the least. The museum had quite a collection, I mean some real great painters, Bouguereau, Jean-Leon Gerome and about 30 pieces of JC Leyendecker to top it off. I’m not going to bore anyone with extensive analysis fo why I think he is so great. Although here are two little facts I found there that made sense to me as to why his paintings are so solid compared to other painters at the time. He studied with John Vanderpoel in Chicago, then he and his brother went to abroad and studied with Bouguereau at the Bouguereau at the Académie Julian and not the Ecoel des Beaux-arts.(thanks Tod) Enough talk, here are some images:
This one was one of my favorites at the show.
btw: A big thanks to the people at the Haggin museum for allowing people to photograph the paintings.
more to come..
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
practice, practice
This past week I was inspired by an artist that gave a talk at work, Tadahiro Uesugi. He gave a demo on how he paints digitally, his method is simple and direct, while watching him I knew I was watching a master at work. His demo was simple but effective, what I mean is there is no waste in time fumbling through photoshop, like I so often do with the tools and such. I mean this guy is a great designer, this was more than a what kind of pencil do you draw with kind of thing. It is yet another reminder of keeping your approach simple and direct while trying to maintain some fun through your process.
I know these are Tadahiro inspired and I don’t plan on aping him but I do want to understand his process, so I practice.
Credits and stuff
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