Reading Robot Comics on the iPhone – a pleasure. Occasionally pages stand out as really exellent illustrations. I’ll send them along to the blog.
These are from Birth 1 by Michael S. Bracco, another follows.
William Scott – Modernist
I am into these people from the 50s. McCahon etc. I wish I had appreciated them more at the time!
William Scott Google Artist Images
Here are a some I like from William Scott:
Dick Frizzell – The Painter
Enjoying this book a lot! His art is fun and his storytelling is fun. I identify with him a lot. Drawing from comic books as a kid, being the best drawer in the class. Uni in the sixties at Canterbury.
I learn about art too. For example the British painter William Scott was briefly an influence on Frizzell. I’ll post up some of his. I like them. Simple, but really more difficult to pull off than they look!
La Bella Principessa
From World News
A portrait of a young woman thought to be created by a 19th century German artist and sold two years ago for about $19,000 is now being attributed by art experts to Leonardo da Vinci and valued at more than $150 million.
The unsigned chalk, ink and pencil drawing, known as “La Bella Principessa,” was matched to Leonardo via a technique more suited to a crime lab than an art studio – a fingerprint and palm print found on the 13 1/2-inch-by-10-inch work.
Charles Keeping
I listened to this interview on Kim Hill – Kate de Goldie on Charles Keeper, & became curious about the art she was talking about.
I’ve found some images & posted them below, more quirky than I thought. I like them.
Interview
Wendy Whiteley story of her life with Brett Whiteley, Australian artist
Just been listening & watching an ABC video. Great story.
Talking Heads: 2009: Wendy Whiteley Podcast 26:00 10/08/2009 Wendy Whiteley: Peter Thompson talks to artist Wendy Whiteley about her extraordinary journey from swinging sixties London and New York to a tranquil garden at the edge of Sydney Harbour.
Video (mp4)
Images and comments follow.
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Jorge Colombo – iSketches
More iSketches by Jorge Colombo, who was on the New Yorker.
This is from the rather wonderful non blog.
Telephone brings back drawing – Hockney
Hockney is making iSketches! Great.
Here he is in one of my digital efforts!
This is one of his iPhone images. Found it here, plenty more there.
Later:
OOOpsss! Apparently these are not iphone but done on a tablet.
There are several drawings of Hockney’s brother, Paul, and his sister, Margaret; and in each picture the subjects seem mesmerised by a small gadget in their hands, which turns out to be an iPhone — Hockney’s latest enthusiasm: “Yes, my brother and sister sat there for three or four hours, totally engrossed.†Hockney is thrilled that he has finally persuaded Celia Birtwell to buy one so that he can send her pictures: “I draw flowers on them and send them out every morning to a group of people.â€
He demonstrates, tracing his finger over the tiny screen with such absorption that I worry he will stop talking altogether. “Who would have thought the telephone would bring back drawing?†he exclaims with glee.
“It’s such a great little device, it has every Shakespeare play in it and the Oxford English dictionary. In your pocket! But it’s also amusing, look at this.†He blows into it and his new toy becomes a harmonica.
Ex Libris
I like these images, I like the idea of using old books.
I like beeswax.
I want to make prins that have something of this feel.
I will put this whole post on my psyberspace blog because it has the Imago word, an in depth approach to the co-unconscious in relationships.
These assemblages are made
made from the covers of used
books. I seek out those that
bring their own history –
inscriptions, notations, signs
signs of wear and amateur
mending – poignant glimpses
into the previous owners’ lives.
When dipped into melted
beeswax, the papers become
translucent, and unexpected
details emerge. Sometimes
the paper on the inside covers
tear in a way that suggests
landscape, and I add to these
readymade images, painting
the moon in various phases
and hand-lettering appropriate
words from a Latin dictionary.
On some, I add tiny diamonds,
to suggest stars or lights.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Archibald winner 2009
A portrait of ARIA award-winning blind musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has won this year’s Archibald Prize.
Guy Maestri’s close-up of Yunupingu’s face was the bookies’ favourite ahead of today’s announcement at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.