happy friday with Vincent

a teen van Gogh and an older one just before the rain hits the fields... have a great friday!

classical values: modern and contemporary drawings

remembering a David from 2013

have a great weekend, my friends!

'Great art has dreadful manners...'

Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in the headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to rearrange your sense of reality.
     ~ Simon Schama in 'The Power of Art', 2006.

David with the Head of Goliath, Caravaggio, 1610

album of chilean masters

a painting by Pedro Lira. I am collecting artworks by chilean masters in a new album at Flickr, think that they- painters and works (my favorites) -  deserve an easy-to-find site where revise and admire them.

sphere

In good work, unity is the dominating quality, all the variety being done in conformity to some large idea of the whole, which is never lost sign of, even in the smallest detail of the work.
     ~ Harold Speed, in 'The Practice and Science of Drawing'.

Francesco Paolo Michetti, Portrait of a Girl, 1851

knot

As a number of scientists have noted, research on the human brain is complicated by the fact that the brain is struggling to understand itself.
     ~ Betty Edwards in 'Drawing with the right side of the brain', 1999.

drawing by Raphael, 1520.

The Kiss - version 21st century

this is my personal take on the famous piece "Il Bacio", by Francesco Hayez, 1859. hope Francesco will forgive me - was done as a little joke and, also, as a kind of homage to the picture and to the artist.
hope you'll like it. have, everybody, a great weekend!

a Faber-Castell good idea // una buena idea de Faber-Castell

in order to promote its products creatives of the company Faber-Castell have recreated two famous paintings - Terrace Cafe at Night by Vincent Van Gogh and The Screm by Edvard Munch - using complete new color pencils 'to build' the images. the results are amazing. enjoy them:

Frank Robbins homage

I made this version of a Frank Robbins drawing as a homage to the great artist. one of my all-time favorites, I always enjoy revising (and learning) again and again the Robbin's artwork.

portrait of Jeanne, 1920

learning from the masters. this is my version of 'Portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne, 1920' by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920). if you want to revise other (very) personal version of different masterpieces, please go here.

VANITY for Illustration Friday

vanity, a photo by frank h. on Flickr.

my version of the masterpiece 'Vanity' by John William Waterhouse, to contribute to this week topic in Illustration Friday. hope you'll like it.

and have a wonderful posting day, artists!