COUNTING TO NINE

Some artists produce mediocre work because they just can't do any better. Others produce it because they're able to get away with it...

THE CURVE OF A CHEEK

Let's face it-- artists love to draw faces. Penetrating eyes, distinctive noses, expressive mouths-- these are often an artist's ric...

HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY, WALT REED!

Today is the 90th birthday of Walt Reed, the world's foremost scholar and historian of illustration art. Walt is author of the seminal I...

FRANK BRANGWYN'S STUDIES

When I recently posted a drawing by Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956), I was surprised to hear how Brangwyn-- once one of the most famous artist...

BEFORE THE BEGINNING, AFTER THE END

The starting point for art is our five senses. Yet sight, touch, and other senses are no help when it comes to one of the most powerful them...

THE WATERCOLORS OF JOHN GANNAM

Some illustrators, such as Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper, went on to become famous in "fine art" circles for their amazing water...

ARTISTS IN LOVE, part ten

In both art and life, the sculptor Gaston Lachaise was famously devoted to his muse, Isabel. Lachaise was working in Paris in 1901 when he f...