Kate Connolly Studio
I'm a DC based studio artist and
print designer - a total fine art nerd.
The links above point to my own original artwork. Unless indicated, the rest are reblogs and fun.
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Handwritten Styles
by Raul Alejandro from New York. Inspired by the city and its colourful life he designs a lot of inspirational typographic artworks.
(via betype)
I have lived through many ages, Through the eyes of salmon, deer, and wolf.
(via fairytalemood)
Bead Pattern studies… lots of symbolic reasons which I won’t go into right now.
Dear JJ Abrams,
I just spent half a year or more catching up, watching all of Star Trek TNG, please don’t fuck up this nerdy universe that I fell in love with with your stupid CGI movie this weekend.
Grammar Police
On my last day of class this week, an undergrad senior student wrote, in the title of her FINAL project, “..where your the star”.
I quietly pointed out it should be “…where you’re the star”.
Her response: “Oh, [who cares] I don’t normally do that.”
Ok, I don’t have perfect grammar myself and normally don’t care to police grammar. But can we please still keep the BASICS intact, where you don’t use a word that means something entirely DIFFERENT than what you intend… especially in a FINAL project?
I don’t know why this irks me so much, but I guess it was more her responding attitude that was disheartening than her actual mistake. Mistakes happen, but it makes me sad to see how little pride the graduating class of this years takes in their work.
Come on people. Can you reaffirm my faith in the younger folks please?
Fixed up this painting some! It’s amazing what difference a bit more attention to detail does.
:)
Last bit of class spam I promise! It was just really hard, so I had to show off the final :)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Veronica Veronese, 1872
This was used as the cover for a book called “Katherine”, so I’ll always think of her as a Katherine, and not a Veronica.
Henri Matisse, Woman with the Hat, 1905
Things to think about when studying:
- Who is the sitter in this painting?
- What movement does this style fit into?
- Why was this painting so controversial? What stylistic elements were radical and new for the time period?
A classic! Green face!
My little friend today wearing my glasses. He was so sad when he couldn’t keep them.
Artist Who Embodies Teeenage Intellectual Angst Is Getting a MoMA Retrospective
It doesn’t get more ironic than this … René Magritte, “La trahison des images (Ceci n’est pas une…
This is not a pipe!
