Quick concept sketch in oil, tossing strokes around like a handful of confetti.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Gasoline Alley Explores Comic Abstractions
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Dinotopia Exhibitions
MUSEUM SHOW LIST (from recent back to 1992)
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Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, NY
The New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
The Alden Dow Museum of Science and Art, Midland, MI
Palazzo Ducale, Lucca Comics & Games, Italy
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Festival International de Science-Fiction De Nantes, France
Centre for Life, Newcastle, UK
Maison d’Ailleurs, Yverdon, Switzerland
Oshkosh Public Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
The Alden Dow Museum of Science and Art, Midland, Michigan.
Oshkosh Public Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Palais Granvelle, Besançon, France
Maison d’Ailleurs, Yverdon, Switzerland
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
Carnegie Public Museum, Three Rivers, Michigan
Richmond Children’s Museum, Richmond, Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Ohio
Tiffany Windows, Tiffany & Co. Jewelers, Fifth Ave, NYC
Buffalo Museum of Science, Royal Tyrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta, New Mexico Museum of Natural History.
Monday, February 22, 2021
Cover for 'Never the Twain'
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Old Tow Truck
Friday, February 19, 2021
Art Mission to Mars
Thursday, February 18, 2021
H.M. Bateman's "The Man Who..." Illustrations
Henry Mayo Bateman (British 1887-1980) created a popular series of comic illustrations that show a man doing something socially inept and suffering the consequences.
Or to "The man who asked for a second helping at a city company dinner."
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Alpine Scene by E.T. Compton
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Painting the Campfire
As William Shakespeare said, "Fire that's closest kept burns most of all."
Smooth the rescue husky chews on a deer's leg bone that he found deeper in the forest.
Monday, February 15, 2021
Quadriga
A notable feature of the State Capitol in Saint Paul, Minnesota is a gilded statue of a chariot pulled by four horses.
The four horses represent the classical elements of water, fire, air, and earth. The female figures standing among the horses represent agriculture and industry.
The male charioteer represents prosperity. Added together, they represent civilization. The 1906 group called "Progress of the State" was sculpted by Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter.This arrangement of sculptural elements goes back to ancient Rome and is known as a quadriga. They usually appear on triumphal arches. In ancient mythology, the chariots of the gods were in the quadriga configuration, with four horses abreast. The sculpted horses on St. Mark's in Venice were from a Byzantine group.
Quadrigas were raced in the ancient Olympic Games, as demonstrated in the 1959 movie 'Ben Hur.'
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Wikipedia on Progress of the State and Quadriga