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Seiho’s Guide to Drawing, Volume 1 – The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints [Shared]

Posted on December 23, 2021 by Douglas Welch

Seiho’s Guide to Drawing, Volume 1 – The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints Volume 1 of four volumes comprising Seihō shūgachō (Seiho’s Guide to Drawing), all of which are in this collection. Each volume consists of a table of contents, … Continue reading →

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Learn How to Draw Flowers, Trees, and Other Plants With These Books via My Modern Met [Shared]

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Douglas Welch

Learn How to Draw Flowers, Trees, and Other Plants With These Books At times when you don’t know what to draw, nature is often the best muse. However, if you’re not familiar with how to draw trees or flowers, plants … Continue reading →

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William Blake’s 102 Illustrations of The Divine Comedy Collected in a Beautiful Book from Taschen | Open Culture [Shared]

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Douglas Welch

I am making my way through The Inferno section of Divine Comedy at the moment and it was a bit serendipitous that I happened across this article. Sometimes that’s the way things work. You start looking in One Direction and … Continue reading →

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Trend Alert: Little Free Art Galleries for Your Front Yard via Gardenista [Shared]

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Douglas Welch

Trend Alert: Little Free Art Galleries for Your Front Yard – Gardenista Most likely you’ve heard of the little free library, a book-sharing box that anyone can install in their front yard to encourage passersby to either take a book … Continue reading →

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NEW DESIGN: Vintage “Queen Bee” Drawing from Public and private life of animals (1877) [Shopping & Gifts]

Posted on November 11, 2021 by Douglas Welch

NEW DESIGN: Vintage “Queen Bee” Drawing from Public and private life of animals (1877) [Shopping & Gifts] Available exclusively fromDouglasEWelch.com/shop/547 Also available on throw blankets, pillows, tops, tees, iPhone cases and much more! *Redbubble has discounts when purchasing multiple items … Continue reading →

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Mural at Cross Street Chicken and Beer in San Diego via Instagram

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Douglas Welch

Stopped by for lunch before #sandiegowhocon . Good food and an excellent pint of Abnormal Mocha Stout. Yum! Follow Me On Instagram From my Instagram Feed Related Posts: Wonderful Butterfly Street Mural via My Instagram Wonderful Butterfly Street Mural via My Instagram … Continue reading →

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Why it breaks your brain to take a compliment – The Oatmeal [Shared]

Posted on September 18, 2021 by Douglas Welch

Click to read this entire comic Related Posts: The Incredible Mechanical Artistry Of François Junod via Hackaday [Shared] The Masks of the Zuni (1904) via The Public Domain Review [Shared] Noted: “No Signal” – Comic: 2017-01-12 It’s Magic! Ye Olde … Continue reading →

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A Gallery of 1,800 Gigapixel Images of Classic Paintings: See Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring, Van Gogh’s Starry Night & Other Masterpieces in Close Detail via Open Culture [Shared]

Posted on September 16, 2021 by Douglas Welch

A Gallery of 1,800 Gigapixel Images of Classic Paintings: See Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring, Van Gogh’s Starry Night & Other Masterpieces in Close Detail via Open Culture Far be it from me, or anyone, to know the future, … Continue reading →

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Download 1,000+ Japanese Woodblock Prints by Edo-Era Master Hiroshige via My Modern Met [Shared]

Posted on August 7, 2021 by Douglas Welch

Download 1,000+ Japanese Woodblock Prints by Edo-Era Master Hiroshige via My Modern Met With rich colors and distinct aesthetics, Japanese woodblock prints blossomed between the 17th and 19th centuries, in the Edo era. During this time, Japan was mostly closed off from the … Continue reading →

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From The Collection Of… 6 in a series – Wendell Castle, Ghost Clock, 1985, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Douglas Welch

From The Collection Of… is a new series highlighting the amazing artwork of the world that is discoverable — and shareable — on the Internet. Most museum collections contain far too many pieces to exhibit in their galleries, so locating … Continue reading →

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From The Collection Of… 5 in a series – The Grand Canal Between San Simone Piccolo and Santa Chiara, LA County Museum of Art

Posted on July 28, 2021 by Douglas Welch

From The Collection Of… is a new series highlighting the amazing artwork of the world that is discoverable — and shareable — on the Internet. Most museum collections contain far too many pieces to exhibit in their galleries, so locating … Continue reading →

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From The Collection Of… 4 in a series – James Baldwin, Photograph via The J. Paul Getty Museum

Posted on July 19, 2021 by Douglas Welch

From The Collection Of… is a new series highlighting the amazing artwork of the world that is discoverable — and shareable — on the Internet. Most museum collections contain far too many pieces to exhibit in their galleries, so locating … Continue reading →

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From The Collection Of… 3 in a series – Drinking Vessel Depicting Otherworldly Toad, Jaguar, and Serpent (650-800 CE) via LA County Museum of Art

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Douglas Welch

From The Collection Of… is a new series highlighting the amazing artwork of the world that is discoverable — and shareable — on the Internet. Most museum collections contain far too many pieces to exhibit in their galleries, so locating … Continue reading →

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That’s right: we taught a computer how to paint like Rembrandt! via Rijksmuseum on TikTok [Video] [Shared]

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Douglas Welch

@rijksmuseum That’s right: we taught a computer how to paint like Rembrandt! ##rijksmuseum ##learnontiktok ##lerenoptiktok ##museum ♬ Shipyard Sample OriginalMix – Official Sound Studio   Related Posts: The Ritual via TikTok [Video] Valentine’s 2021 – 13 in a series – … Continue reading →

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The Incredible Mechanical Artistry Of François Junod via Hackaday [Shared]

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Douglas Welch

The Incredible Mechanical Artistry Of François Junod | Hackaday The art of building purely mechanical automatons has dramatically declined with the arrival of electronics over the past century, but there are still a few craftsmen who keep the art form … Continue reading →

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