Any Art Lovers?

"No Place to Go" makes me think of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.

 

Exactly right SM.
Don’t you just love Steinbeck.
Have you read “The Grapes of Wrath?”

 

I love Steinbeck too. I read almost all of his novels, but not the two long ones: The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. I was saving them for last. Now I wish I had read them when I was younger. I don't have the stamina anymore for long books. I would probably be more likely to reread Cannery Row or Tortilla Flat than tackle The Grapes of Wrath. But hopefully some day I'll get to it.

 

Hi @Greg Sacramento

I really love your profile picture, it reminds me of my favourite painting.

 

I like Andrew Wyeth. Below is what he's most recognized for but one series I enjoyed a lot was his series of Windows.



And as cliche as it may be, my favorite of all is Van Gogh. I've probably seen the movie Lust for Life over a 100 times. I finally purchased the illustrated books of his letters and its been amazing to read. To read how he speaks, his manners. He's incredibly polite and sentimental when writing his letters which I never knew. I obviously like his painting but I also have a special fondness for his sketches.



I also enjoy Renoir. Pictures on the internet don't do his paintings justice. They are are breath taking in person.

I also like Seurat. I have this one in my kitchen


I also really like Tim Burton's own artwork. Yes, he doesn't just make movies, he draw too.



If anyone is looking to explore artwork on line, I highly highly recommend checking out Google Arts and Culture. You can explore artwork from museums around the world and all mediums and its organize very well. They actually went to these museums and took incredibly high resolution images of artwork. You can zoom in and see every little detail down to the brush stroke. Its truly astonishing. https://artsandculture.google.com

 

I saw a museum exhibit of Burton's work maybe ten years ago. It was amazing. There were models from his movies as well as artwork unrelated to the movies. I wish I remembered it better, but it was a huge exhibit and there was a big crowd so it was like art-express.

 

Yes, I saw the same exhibition here in LA. Thats were I purchased the book The Art of Tim Burton. It had a big impact on me because I always wanted to draw, all my life, but felt I couldn't because my drawing looked like a children's drawing. I just always struggled with it. But when I saw his drawings, I felt it was similar to mine and it gave me confidence. I actually free handed a few of his drawing that you can see below. I soon fell in love with ink drawing with a touch of marker color.

 

LUL. Draw ME NICO D ROBIN BOII