Book Review: Looking at Birds - John Muir Laws Please share if you like it! Blackbird Shapes. Illustration by John Busby Looking at Birds: An Antidote to Field Guides is an outstanding guide to observing the world and bringing greater joy and curiosity to the study of birds. The author is John Busby, master bird artist whose fast bird sketches capture the aliveness and energy of a bird like no one I have ever seen. His work has inspired me for years. I am dyslexic, and reading has always been a difficult process for me. While not a how to draw book, Looking at Birds is a game changer for bird artists. The abundance of Busby’s sketches and the insight into his thought process makes Looking at Birds a great companion to one of his previous titles, Drawing Birds (also a must have). If you are a fan of Busby’s work, you may enjoy this short video in which you can watch him sketching in the field. Related
2 Vital Facts About a Basic Color Wheel Every Creative Person Must Know - Color Wheel Artist 1. Subtractive Color * Subtractive Colorinvolves tangible thingsyou can touch. * As I have said, Subtractive color is the type of color used in painting. As an example paint, ink, colored pencils and the colors of the things in the world are all considered Subtractive color. The Color Wheel at the top of this page and the fanned Paint Deck above are perfect examples of Subtractive color. * It's called 'Subtractive' because we begin with White. * This is a hugely important point to grasp for any artist working with paint or any other medium. * The Subtractive qualities of paint and the infinite varieties of paint color don't translate easily in print reproductions because images are first captured from a camera and adjusted on a computer screen .
Honey We're Home creatureandcreator The Byzantine Empire began with the founding of the city of Constantinople by the Emperor Constantine the Great in 330 CE. By the 12th century Constantinople was the largest and richest city in Europe. Byzantium maintained its glory until the sacking of of the city by the forces of the Fourth Crusade in 1204 CE. After this the Byzantine Empire existed only in fragments. The Ottoman conquest of the Constantinople in 1453 CE ended the empire, replacing Eastern Christianity with Islam. The art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire is justly famous. O sages standing in God’s holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre And be the singing-masters of my soul. A common view of the early Renaissance in Italy is that it adapted the mosaic images to the new techniques of fresco and panel paining. Yet these developments were not unique to Italy (Grahan Dixon, 1999). The first is a pair of paintings of the Annunciation. Byron, R., & Rice, D. Evans, Helen C.
Why babies in medieval paintings look like ugly old men Why are the babies in medieval art so ugly? To find the answer, I spoke to Matthew Averett, an art history professor at Creighton University who edited the anthology The Early Modern Child in Art and History. But really, just how ugly are these babies? Ugly might be too weak a word for medieval babies These babies look like horrifying tiny men with high cholesterol and strong opinions about housing association rules. They're babies like this one from 1350: Print Collector/Getty Images Or this one from 1333: Paolo Veneziano/Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images These scary man-babies make one wonder how we went from ugly medieval depictions to the recognizably cherubic babies of the Renaissance and today. So why were there so many ugly babies? Were medieval artists just bad at drawing? These ugly babies were very intentional. "If we're thinking about children in a fundamentally different light, the painting will reflect the attitudes," Averett says. "Style is chosen," he continues.