B Is For…
B is for…
Ink, Colored Pencil
B is for brush. B is for blue, brown, black, and bistre, a fugitive color made from beechwood around the 18th century. B is for brayer, a printmaker’s tool consisting of a handle attached to a hard rubber roller. Used for block printing, not all brayers are democrats.
B is for Bazille, Botticelli, Bouguereau, and Boudin, a French plein air painter who took a very young Claude Monet to the beach, and taught him how to see. B is for the Barbizon School, where Corot, Daubigny, and Millet successfully passed all their landscape painting classes.
B is for bottega, and for botanical, a detailed, realistic rendering of small plant life. B is for batik, a method of dyeing fabric using a wax resist.
B is for…
Ink, Pencil, Paper
B is for Baroque, a 17th century art movement using selective lighting and deep shadows to create dramatic religious figures, and the Batignolles Group, consisting of Edouard Manet, Camille Pissaro, Edgar Degas and Alfred Sisley. After a long day of painting, they’d meet at the Cafe Guerbois for aperitifs, and discuss their work.
B is for the beauty created for us by all the artists who’ve ever sacrificed work for sleep, or food for paint.
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This is such a neat and unique series! I love it! What a great job.
Thanks Kasie! It’s a fun project. I hope you’ll come back and “see” what’s next!
Another great post of ‘b’eautiful sketches!
I especially like the brayer, what a hoot!
Thanks Rita! He’s almost as silly as his creator.