The November meteors. As observed between midnight and 5 o’clock A.M. on the night of November 13-14 1868.
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The November meteors. As observed between midnight and 5 o’clock A.M. on the night of November 13-14 1868.
All done. Can’t get an outside photo right now, easel is cracked and undergoing repairs. Click for full size. 16″ x 20″ on Bristol. Gum arabic watercolours, marker outline.
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Aurora Borealis. As observed March 1, 1872, at 9h. 25m. P.M. Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
Quick flash photo, so not great. Click for full size.
Meeting at the Egg Market, © C. Ford, all rights reserved.
Total eclipse of the sun. Observed July 29, 1878, at Creston, Wyoming Territory, Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
and having fun. :D I’ve gotten so accustomed to doing gum arabic watercolours, I don’t know that I can ever go back to plain.
Meeting at the Egg Market © C. Ford, all rights reserved.
ETA: I was still undecided on the body colour for the being on the left; I decided to go with Charly’s characterisation of pony, so dappled gray.
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“Guided, Guarded By The Spirits Of Dead Suns.” William T. Horton, The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story, H. Rider Haggard. And this is the last of Horton. Tomorrow, we start with Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
The Great White Road. William T. Horton, The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story, H. Rider Haggard.
Quick flash shot. I know it’s an odd title, but…it all started with a quick sketch of a stream gushing forth from a bunch of suspended eggs, then forming a bi-directional waterfall. Then I went to sleep. This kind of thing happens when I stick my head out from under my rock and read things like this.
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Kehinde Wiley speaking in a video created by the Brooklyn Museum for their New Republic exhibition. He is seated in a gallery surrounded by his paintings. (via Brooklyn Museum’s YouTube channel).
Artist Amy Sherald, left, with one of her paintings, right, “The Make Believer (Monet’s Garden)” (2016), oil on canvas, 54 x 43 inches. (Private Collection, Chicago). (all images courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago).
Next year two Obama portraits will be unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Today the Wall Street Journal announced who the artists responsible for those official images will be: Brooklyn-based Kehinde Wiley, and Baltimore-based Amy Sherald. Both American artists are known for their portraits of African-American individuals, and both demonstrate an emotional sensitivity to their subjects in their work.
“Changed indeed, mysterious, wonderful.” William T. Horton, The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story, H. Rider Haggard.
The Chemical Crew has a great love of oil paints, which are kept seriously locked up most of the time. The other day, I squeezed the last out of a tube of black, and left that and a piece I was meh about on the drawing table, for the girls to have fun with. There was just a tiny bit of the tube left, and the girls left their imprimatur on the piece too, vastly improving it, I think. Look at all those lovely scrapes and scratches!
© Vala & The Chemical Crew.