Inspiration
Fine Art Friday - Vol. 5
With so much focus on the technical side of of visualization, we want to bring some much needed attention back to the roots of our industry. Every Friday we'll be posting a series of paintings, photographs and traditional illustrations to showcase lighting, composition and mood to help inspire your digital visualizations. Below you'll find a selection of curated works from the 17th, 18th and 19th century. Do you have a favourite non-digital artist you think we should feature? Let us know!
If you want hands on training to really get your creative juices flowing, we highly recommend the excellent work being done by Nikos Nikolopoulos and Damien Fennell at Creative Lighting. They have regular online and live training that has amazing feedback. Hands down the best inspirational classes you can find in architectural visualization.
Title: Architectural Fantasy: Ruins of a Circular Temple Seen through a Natural Arch
Artist: Pierre-Adrien Pâris
Medium: pen and black ink with watercolor and gouache over graphite on laid paper
Date: c. 1785
Title: Figures Walking in a Parkland
Artist: Louis Carrogis Carmontelle
Medium: Watercolor and gouache with traces of black chalk underdrawing on translucent Whatman paper
Date: between 1783 and 1800
Title: St. Paul's Cathedral, from St. Martin's-le-Grand, London
Artist: Thomas Girtin
Medium: Gray wash and watercolor over graphite on beige, medium, slightly textured, wove paper
Date: circa 1795
Title: The Villa Medici, Rome
Artist: John Warwick Smith
Medium: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Date: circa 1784
Title: Universal Exhibition 1855. Palace of Industry, cross-section
Artist: Max Berthelin
Medium: Black ink and watercolour
Date: 1854
Title: Rear view of the Houses at Schloßfreiheit
Artist: Eduard Gaertner
Medium:
Date: 1855
Title: Chester. The Cross, looking towards Watergate Street
Artist: Louise Rayner
Medium: watercolor
Date: from 1886 until 1903
Title: Chester. The Cross, looking towards Watergate Street
Artist: Hendrick Aerts
Medium: oil on panel
Date: circa 1602
Title: View of Edinburgh
Artist: Samuel Dukinfield Swarbreck
Medium:
Date: 1827
Title: Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams
Artist: Vilhelm Hammershøi
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 1900
Title: Philosopher with an Open Book, copy of Rembrandt's Philosopher in Meditation
Artist: Salomon Koninck
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: circa 1645
Title: The Evening of the Deluge
Artist: John Martin
Medium: Mezzotint and engraving
Date: 1828
Title: The Fall of Babylon
Artist: John Martin
Medium: Mezzotint and engraving
Date: 1831
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With so much focus on the technical side of of visualization, we want to bring some much needed attention back to the roots of our industry.
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