Currently the Met exhibits nearly 150 paintings in oil and in water color by J. M. W. Turner. Check out the introductory aritcle at New York Times, “Storm-Tossed Visionary of Light“, and the selective works in this slideshow. Turner is one of my favorite painters.
The abobe is one of famous Goya’s portraits. Which lady did the pros for Goya? Check out this interactive introduction of some hidden gems of spanish artist Goya from New York Times. The related article is Goya Framed by His City .
(from Wired)
Wired’s How-to Wiki shows you how to hack a Nintendo DS, coupled with the paint application Colors, to become a portable digital painting tool. See the drawing demo below.
Isn’t that cool? 
Though I don’t play game in PC or console, this makes me want to have one too.
(And PS III for watching Blu-ray discs? 
)
(via Lifehacker)
I was in a boring but mandatory safety meeting this morning. I brought something to read, but the dry and lack of focus talks made me impatient. So, I drew. The first model was
When I finished it I thought the meeting was over, but another speaker came to the podium — jeez 
. Got to find another to draw, so here was it:
The talk wasn’t half way through when I finished this one. WTH. I left the room. Got to find something to eat.
What comes after POP ART and OP ART?
New York Times presents some collection of Al Jaffee’s fold-ins for Mad Magazine, from 1960s to the present, in for categories: Presidents, War and the Military, Pop Culture, and Sport. Quite interesting.
Here you can see some selected Chinese paintings, currently exhibited in Metropolitan Museum (from “Anatomy of a Masterpiece” — The New York Times
And here are some Japanese paintings, displayed in Asia Society (”Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan” — The New York Times
Another set of Japanese paintings exhibited in Brooklyn Museum (”Masters of the Japanese Print” — The New York Times)
Said Michelangelo to a langud young studio assistant, Antonio Mini, in 1524. Not just urging Mini to draw, Michelangelo also gave Mini many drawings. Morgan Library & Muserum currently exhibits 79 16th-century Florentine works from the Mini cache, “Michelangelo, Vasari and Their Contemporaries: Drawing From the Uffizi”.
For Michelangelo drawing was the most practical and personal medium; it was a laboratory, a diary, an end in itself. If you could do a perfect drawing, he came to think, why bother to turn it into a painting or sculpture? Perfection in any form was the goal. One of the most famously perfect drawings he made, “Bust of a Woman, Head of an Old Man and Bust of a Child,” is in this show. (from Artistic Muscle, Flexed for Medicis, New York Times)
Haven’t done my practice for a while. 
What is grunge style in web design?
… dirty look with irregular, nasty, sometimes even ugly and crooked visual elements. (from Smashing Magazine)
It doesn’t mean that grunge stands for dirty. Smashing magazine gives some examples of what grunge style looks like in web design. This is grunge style:
Smashing magazine also collects several tools (grunge texture, brushes etc). And with these two tutorials (Grunge Photoshop Tutorials & Grungy Cover Design Tutorial), you can make your own grunge. 
Though I don’t get day off on Christmas day, I wish my friends a Merry Christmas. Enjoy your holidays! (yup, relax first and resolve later )
(Based on WALL•E poster)
A little bit pale. Maybe I should use Magic Marker for outline.
And here is flash file I made before. 
(Peace)
Listen to NPR’s introduction of the paintings by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) and check out the slideshow, “The Art of J. M. W. Turner“.
He is one of my favorite painters.
