Sunday 24 November 2019

Friday 22 November 2019

randall enos


randall enos is better known as a cartoonist but, being that he's from new bedford, it seems inevitable he'd be doing some illustrating of moby dick at some point which he does in the form of the story of mocha dick. these linocuts are absolutely exquisite and absolutely worth a browse

Thursday 21 November 2019

timothy lamb


i like the insouciant nature of this image of queequeg by timothy lamb (no web presence?). that said i'm struck by the lack of figurative pictures from moby dick beyond queequeg or ahab. the ahab images seem to lean heavily on the gregory peck iteration which is all fair and good but seems to me rather limiting. as for the queequeg, as far as i can see most of these images are by white artists, who seem to be predominantly american and male. i've always thought of queequeg as polynesian and it would be nice to see some representations from that part of the world.

Wednesday 20 November 2019

Tuesday 19 November 2019

carson ellis


it being the bicentennial of melville's birth i cam across this illustration by carson ellis in the new yorker. true, it's more of melville but i think she's managed to capture the essential ahabian in him.

Monday 18 November 2019

matt kish


matt kish's illustrtated moby dick is a story in itself but it shouldn't take away from the images. i was beguiled by these images from the moment i saw them and was an easy purchaser of his book!

Friday 15 November 2019

mark milloff


i could go on and on about these images from mark milloff but i shan't. apparently there could be more. i'd love the chance to see these in the flesh.

Thursday 14 November 2019

robert shore



it's well worth having a browse through robert shore's images of moby dick which, to my eyes, capture something much more dynamic than the probably better known series by rockwell kent. i also love the bio on shore's page, different times!

Wednesday 13 November 2019

mastodon



and here's mastodon. i love the drummer on this. off the top of my head him and the lass from bandmaid are my favourite drummers at this time. and, for whatever reason, while this video's not the best quality i love the off the wall nuttiness of it that seems somehow to capture that essential madness at the centre of moby dick.

paul romano


after yesterday's comment re lack of female artists illustrating moby dick you don't get more muscularly masculine than mastodon's leviathan album the cover art for which comes from paul romano. i love the song blood and thunder but i adore this cover (available as a print from paul romano should anyone want to get me an early christmas present!)

Tuesday 12 November 2019

barry moser


this, by barry moser, isn't from moby dick but is instead of jonah, but it appears so often in moby dick illustration lists (as opposed to his actual moby dick illustration!) i thought i'd include it anyway.

as i'm doing this it strikes me that i haven't actually come across any female artists illustrating moby dick as yet (feel free to put me right). i was super keen to read emily wilson's odyssey when it appeared and it'd be interesting to see a female perspective on what seems such a male tome

Monday 11 November 2019

bill sienkiewicz


as i've got an enduring interest in moby dick it'll be a week, and maybe more of images from there, starting with this from bill sienkiewicz, easily one of my favourite comic artists and up there amongst my favourite (almost) representational artists. this is the cover image from his graphic version of moby dick which, when i got it was only available in french. which, if you don't speak the language, isn't a problem as you're not getting this for the text! an absolute must for graphic/moby dick fans.

Sunday 10 November 2019

Saturday 9 November 2019

husbandry

charles bukowski


death of an idiot

he spoke to mice and sparrows
and his hair was white at the age of 16.
his father beat him every day and his mother
lit candles in the church.
his grandmother came while the boy slept
and prayed for the devil to let loose his hold upon
him
while his mother listened and cried over the
bible.

he didn’t seem to notice young girls
he didn’t seem to notice the games boys played
there wasn’t much he seemed to notice
he just didn’t seem interested.

he had a very large, ugly mouth and the teeth
stuck out
and his eyes were small and lusterless.
his shoulders were slumped and his back was bent
like an old man’s.

he lived in our neighborhood.
we talked about him when we got bored and then
went on to more interesting things.
he seldom left his house. we would have liked to
torture him
but his father
who was a huge and terrible man
tortured him for
us.

one day the boy died. at 17 he was still a
boy. a death in a small neighborhood is noted with
alacrity, and then forgotten 3 or 4 days
later.

but the death of this boy seemed to stay with us
all. we kept talking about it
in our boy-men’s voices
at 6 p.m. just before dark
just before dinner.

and whenever I drive through that neighborhood now
decades later
I still think of his death
while having forgotten all the other deaths
and everything else that happened
then.

tulip (undressed)

Friday 8 November 2019

tiffany bozic


i started the week with nature images and that's how i'll finish. tiffany bozic is described as a surreal nature artist but i think that's a bit reductive. i'm really liking her use of forms and colour

Thursday 7 November 2019

will kurtz


yes, you could say there's something just a bit obvious in some of will kurtz's figures. but for me, that would be profoundly ungenerous. i love his use of material. these are joyous

Wednesday 6 November 2019

Tuesday 5 November 2019

allen crawford


i do adore my walt whitman's ong of myself illustrated by allen crawford. obviously everyone should have a copy and i can't help feeling that, if we actually did, we'd be better human beings.

Monday 4 November 2019

lauren marx


there's representative art and then there's lauren marx. if i'd seen these when i was a (n animal drawing obsessive) little kid i'd have been worshiping at her feet!

Sunday 3 November 2019

Saturday 2 November 2019

Friday 1 November 2019

Thursday 31 October 2019

peter howson


i'm not the biggest peter howson fan but i can't think of a better image to represent how brexit, whether leave or remain (fringe loons aside), has split the country

Wednesday 30 October 2019

robin doyle


robin doyle has some sort of scattergun approach encompassing street art, graffiti, poster art and beyond. but really well executed and absorbing.

Tuesday 29 October 2019

chiharu shiota


chiharu shiota defies categorisation. follow the link and just look at her stuff. amazing

Monday 28 October 2019

costa dvorezky


not what i'd usually look at whatsoever but i was captivated with costa dvorezky's bodies in space. i love the super traditional technique he's using for his figures juxtaposed onto an abstract space. sublime.

Sunday 27 October 2019

Saturday 26 October 2019

Friday 25 October 2019

nathalie boutté


i'm guessing this is an earlier work by nathalie boutte as she seems to be more into portrait work these days. or maybe this is just a detail. whichever, i'm liking it.....

Thursday 24 October 2019

hubert tereszkiewicz


apparently hubert tereszkiewicz works mainly in design and just knocks out linocut portraits on the side. which, if you've ever done linocut, is astonishing. i can safely say no linocut i ever do will match the skill (or patience!) on display here

Wednesday 23 October 2019

elizabeth lecourt


 i absolutely adore these from elizabeth lecourt and i can't imagine just how tricky it must be to actually make them

Monday 21 October 2019

alexey kondakov


 it's true there's a lot of these juxtaposed images around these days but, for me, alexey kondakov does it better than most

Sunday 20 October 2019

Saturday 19 October 2019

Friday 18 October 2019

toshi yoshida


i can't believe i haven't had toshi yoshida on here before. i just assumed this would be a double post! looking at his earlier work you'd be forgiven for thinking this was made by another toshi yoshida. but he moved from his more representative imagery to abstract forms taking all his skills with him and achieving something else entirely. easily one of my favourite printmakers

Thursday 17 October 2019

neil shigley


there's always that niggle now when you're looking at images like this that here's an artist making art from the lives of the less fortunate. obviously the stakes are even higher when that artist is whote and male. even so, i'm thinking neil shigley hits the target here and shows a humanity in his subjects and a compassion that's all too easy to miss as we walk by the ever increasing numbers of people dropping through the cracks in our societies. and i love a big print!

Wednesday 16 October 2019

debra fritts


i do love a head with a big halo round it. and, as ever, i do love seeing other people making objects that i couldn't if i had a decade of sundays. debra fritts ticks all the boxes

Tuesday 15 October 2019

cecilia paredes


it's unfair to call cecilia paredes just a photographer because her work contains so much more. a true multi media artist

Monday 14 October 2019

boris groh


don't know much about boris groh but i do love these mournful giant skeletons.....

Friday 11 October 2019

ebon heath


so you could describe ebon heath as a letter artists, a sculptor, a paper artists or something else entirely....

Thursday 10 October 2019

job wouters


 job wouters is described as a letter artist. whcih is accurate bur doesn't describe the half of it

Wednesday 9 October 2019

Tuesday 8 October 2019

george lafayette


there was a time when i might have said figurative sculpture wasn't my thing but there's just so much skill going on here from george lafayette

Monday 7 October 2019

wojciech fangor


some proper monday colour from wojciech fangor

Saturday 5 October 2019

Friday 4 October 2019

ruth clotworthy


ruth clotworthy's work is so different from anything i'm doing just now i just find it bold, adventurous and an inspiration. and joyous!

Thursday 3 October 2019

ishibashi yui


i'm probably less comfortable with ishibashi yui's work than i was with yesterday's post. explanations aside the execution is fabulous

Wednesday 2 October 2019

taras loboda


taras loboda's relentless pictures of big eyed women are not my natural inclination but the physicality of this big slab of red just caught my imagination!

Tuesday 1 October 2019

caddie weisenberg


i find myself being more and more taken by ceramics these days. caddie weisenberg appears to have no web presence whatsoever but images abound. happy googling!

Monday 30 September 2019

evelyn george carey


no school like the old school. not sure of the provenance on this but evelyn george carey was an engineer who worked on, and took images of, the forth bridge in scotland. and i do like a bridge.....

Friday 27 September 2019

josef koudelka


big, bold, classic images. can't argue with josef koudelka

Thursday 26 September 2019

justin clifford rhody


 i was really captured by this image by justin clifford rhody. plus he got a william burroughs thing going on which would've appealed to my younger self

Tuesday 24 September 2019

mark english


it's a niche subject - paintings of horses that i like - but this by mark english is one of them. i love the collage-y feel of his images and the way he gets paint down

Monday 23 September 2019

jacob hashimoto


tricky to see this image of jacob hashimoto but worth a closer look for the textures and space it occupies

Saturday 21 September 2019

Friday 20 September 2019

todd hido


i'm not so convinced by all of todd hido's work but i do like his landscapes

Thursday 19 September 2019

Wednesday 18 September 2019

shigeki tomura


easily one of my favourite landscape artists, i particularly like shigeki tomura's trees

Tuesday 17 September 2019

Monday 16 September 2019

jonathan singer


i think this comes from jonathan singer's botanica magnifica. even if it doesn't check it out. if you like this sort of botanical photogrpahy then this is for you.....

Friday 13 September 2019

akihito takuma


i'd be curious to see how akihito takuma gets these images. i like the singlemindedness of them - i find it very restful!

Thursday 12 September 2019

gabor kerekes


gabor kerekes is interesting, interesting, interesting! get the kettle on and have a browse!

Wednesday 11 September 2019

Tuesday 10 September 2019

david owen hastings


i think david owen hastings wears his influences on his sleeve and i'm not going to grumble about that!

Monday 9 September 2019

Friday 6 September 2019

jerome liu xin hao


not much in the way of architectural drawing lately but this is one of my faves. it's apparently a drawing as part of a project for a peckham hospice but i can't find a link for more detail. google and maybe you'll have more luck!

Thursday 5 September 2019

pat steir


proper old school, it's amazing just how often you see echoes of pat steir's work

Tuesday 3 September 2019

Monday 2 September 2019

mattie iverson


 to paraphrase jean brodie - for those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like. this, by mattie iverson, hits the spot just right for me