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A gathering of art blogs: the current index
I was thinking about creating a quick index of all of the art pieces I’ve featured since my site/blog came into existence
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Russ’ Art Blog: Daguerre’s “Ruined Gothic Colonnade”
It combines textures, architectures and seemingly a whole new world, and it caught my eye immediately.
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Russ’ Art Blog: Mount Etna from Taormina
Imagine then how absolutely amazing it was for me to walk into the Thomas Cole Room at the Wadsworth Atheneum
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Russ’ Art Blog: The Dream of Ossian
Thanks to the holiday season, I haven’t really been able to do much at all, let alone an art blog.
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Russ’ Art Blog: The Young Lady with the Shiner
One of the nice things about being in an art museum is the chance to take in a surprise painting, one that you didn’t expect to see.
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Sketchy McSketch Sketch: November and Moleskines
For those not in the parlance, a Moleskine is a particular kind of small journal, in my case the “storyboard” version.
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Russ’ Art Blog: The Apotheosis of War
Vereshchagin etched the phrase, “Dedicated to all great conquerors, past, present and future” into the frame of the work
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The big trip: Hartford and New York City
Here is a quick rundown of the trip, with a handful of images and observations that I have.
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Russ’ Art Blog: Found Drowned
Continuing on my art posts of really happy, joyous images (reference: sarcasm), here is Vasily Perov’s Found Drowned (1867, Oil on canvas, 27″ x 42″). I’ve had a bookmark for it for awhile, and I think it’s an interesting piece. I think it’s one of those pieces that has a Read more…
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Sketchy McSketch Sketch: Sept/Oct
After the accident (there’s a thread around here somewhere for that), I’ve had a hard time getting my head back into art. To help get that moving again, I’m returning to posting some of the sketches I’ve been working on. As always, they vary quite wildly, even on the same Read more…
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More Fun With Photoshop: Scratches
I decided to write a quick blog on how I would approach a problem in Photoshop. In this case, scratches.
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Russ’s Art Blog: A Wolf Had Not Been Seen in Salem for Thirty Years
I’ve been thinking of trying out one of Howard Pyle’s works for some time, but they’re kind of difficult to come by online.
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Russ’ Art Blog: The Plague of Rome
I’m all about cheery pics tonight, the other two I was thinking of were pretty dark too. Something in the air maybe? This is Jules Elie Delaunay’s Plague in Rome (1869, Oil on canvas, 52″ x 69″), also known as The Angel of Death. I might be wrong, but this Read more…
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Russ’ Art Blog: Death on a Pale Horse
Though J.M.W. Turner’s technique is certainly evident here, the tone of the piece isn’t one I expected.
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Music and the artist Part 1: Soundtracks
An interesting discussion came up today (both online and in real life) about what music drives our particular passions. I decided to go through my iTunes library and really see which tracks influence my art, or at least which tracks really drive me in certain directions with the type and Read more…
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Russ’s Art Blog: “Pushkin’s Farewell to the Sea”
Ok, so it’s been a little while since the last one of these art blogs. I’ll see if I can’t post a few more of them, and without the 4 months between them. Above is Ivan Aivazovsky and Ilya Repin’s Pushkin’s Farewell to the Sea (1887, Oil on canvas), Read more…
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Fun with Textures
I tend to experiment quite a bit with different ideas and looks, but here’s a general usage idea for textures.
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Russ’s Art Blog: Achenbach – “Caught In A Squall”
This isn’t just a wave coming in, or the rising tide. The water is alive, and is fighting everything in its path.
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Russ’s Art Blog: Vedder – The Questioner of the Sphinx
I’ve run across a number of Elihu Vedder’s pieces before, and this one is one of my favorites. This is Vedder’s, The Questioner of the Sphinx, a piece that for me is always inspiring.
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Russ’s Art Blog: Bierstadt, and seeing it in person
I’ve seen many Bierstadt works in art books (and a handful in person), and I think he had a real knack for capturing the feel of the wild.