Category Archives: dead artists

Georges Lemmen

Posted by melydia on November 1, 2017 None comments

Georges Lemmen is one of those painters I discovered by clicking Wikipedia links from painters I’d heard of.

Gustave Courbet

Posted by melydia on October 30, 2017 1 comments

Gustave Courbet was a brilliant painter but wow, some of his paintings are NSFW.

Picasso

Posted by melydia on March 20, 2017 None comments

The last dead artist I’ve drawn so far, and this was back in October. I’m happy to take suggestions, but the artist has to 1. be dead, and 2. have lived in the age of photography. (So, like, no Titian.) I prefer older ones, especially daguerrotypes and the like, since they’re less likely to have been photoshopped away from reality.

Grandma Moses

Posted by melydia on June 29, 2016 None comments

It bothers me a little bit that Grandma Moses is known mostly for being old, but her paintings are nice.

Berthe Morisot

Posted by melydia on June 27, 2016 2 comments

There weren’t many female Impressionists, so Morisot’s work was new to me, but I like it.

Mary Cassatt

Posted by melydia on June 25, 2016 1 comments

I adore her hat.

Marie Bracquemond

Posted by melydia on June 24, 2016 1 comments

I couldn’t find an image of her signature.

Klimt

Posted by melydia on April 10, 2016 None comments

I love his flyaway hair. So many of these artists had crazy bedhead going on for some reason. Maybe it was the style of the time. Or maybe they were just artists.

Rosie’s Boys

Posted by melydia on April 9, 2016 None comments

My friend Dave asked me to draw the “We Can Do It” guy. I said, “Rosie the Riveter?” He said yes, that’s who he meant. Well, it turns out those are two different people. The guy who did the We Can Do It poster was J. Howard Miller:

And the guy who did the picture of Rosie the Riveter was Norman Rockwell:

It turns out that the We Can Do It poster wasn’t associated with Rosie the Riveter until well after the war had ended. So there you have it: art and a history lesson, all in one!

Waterhouse

Posted by melydia on April 8, 2016 None comments

John William Waterhouse is my friend Kate’s favorite artist. We happened to look up his photograph while she was visiting the other day and I ended up keeping the link open so I could draw him. She seems pleased with the result.

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