Monday, April 2, 2018
Sketchbook Cover for Art Workshop
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7 comments:
Amazing and beautiful, James--as is the Mohonk Mountain House. Must have been an inspirational workshop!
beautiful.
Great pen work. Your versatility in all media is truly incredible.
Wonderful illustration, Jim. So much personality!
For anyone interested in the Rustic Style of the mid- to late-19th Century, begin your studies with Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852) & Calvert Vaux (1824-1895). In spite of his untimely death at age 36, Downing is considered to be a founder of American landscape architecture:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Downing
Vaux was a close friend and protégé of Downing who took over his architectural practice. He is best known as the co-designer, along with his protégé and junior partner Frederick Law Olmsted, of what would become New York's Central Park:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvert_Vaux
A blog link that contains some nice color photos of the "Rustic Architecture and Accoutrements in Central Park:"
http://davidcobbcraig.blogspot.com/2010/11/rustic-architecture-and-accoutrements.html
The words "Souvenir Sketches" & "Mountain House" are done in an alphabet (sign painters never called them fonts) called Tuscan Extreme, and that is a "relief shade" on Mountain House. This info is per the work books for the sign program at Wagner School of Art, after WWII. It was later Butera School of Art, and is now closed I understand.
Nice job on the execution James. I used to do them with a french squirrel hair quill.
Absolutely beautiful. Just alone that initial "S" in Souvenir is to die for....
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