Category Archives: art

artsy fartsy monday

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One of my favorite browsing and shopping sites, Art.com, has a fun on-line version of Paintbrush. You paint a picture and when you’re finished you watch as a video replays everything you did, very cool. You can then view it in a mock-up art gallery and they will add it to their collection. My painting is done with my mouse, not very fancy but fun to do. I just ordered a Wacom tablet so I can learn to do more intricate graphic designs (I hope) like the ones I see on the Illustration Friday site. I’m not giving up on my “Story of George” collages though, no matter how tricky I become with the pen and tablet!

Click here to make your own masterpiece!

artful thursday

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Time to power up that inner artist! I made this line drawing of an angel on a cool website called the SCRIBBLER. You hold down the left mouse button and make a simple line drawing, and when you’re done the SCRIBBLER takes over and creates a masterpiece. If you love what you make and want to save it to your computer it’s a little tricky, but if bookbabie can do it, anyone can! I followed their directions and pasted the entire page capture on a blank page in my photo program, then cropped out what I didn’t want, and ta da, a lovely line angel!

shades of new york

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Zina Saunders is a professional writer-illustrator and native New Yorker who chronicles the lives of New York City residents on her very cool website, Overlooked New York. She also interviews each subject and does a brief write up about them and about their “joyous” obsessions. Some of her subject categories are; Rooftop Pigeon Guys, Animal Lovers (like Dora above), Subway Musicians, and Curry Contestants. Wonderful paintings and snapshots of some of the colorful people that make New York the great city that it is. Check it out (and if you happen to be a book editor, I for one would buy a collection of her portraits!).

painterly woman

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Mary Cassatt’s place in the history of American art is unique, not only because she was one of the few woman artists of any nationality to succeed professionally in her time, but also because she was the only American artist to exhibit with the French Impressionists. After mastering the requirements of academic painting, Cassatt broke away from tradition and joined Edgar Degas, a close friend and mentor, in the exhibition of Impressionist artists in 1879. Cassatt embraced the technique of the Impressionists while developing a highly accomplished individual style.