List of Books: • Noah's Ark - Rien Poortvliet • William D Berry: 1954-1956 Alaskan Field Sketches • Carl Rungius: Painter of the Western Wilderness • Desert Dreams: The Art and Life of Maynard Dixon • Paintings From the Wild: The Art and life of George McLean • Paul Calle: An Artist's Journey • Bruno Liljefors: The Peerless Eye - Martha Hill • John Singer: Sargent - Edited by Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond • The Art of Thomas Aquinas Daly: The Painting Season • 200 Drawings: The Drawings of Heinrich Kley • Across the Ravaged Land - Nick Brandt
Rien Poortvliet is a Dutch artist/painter. I am from the Netherlands, so I am excited to see that you love his work. I have a few books too. Greetings from The Netherlands 🇳🇱
@@hannalooye5714 That's a pretty debatable take (everything is subjective tho). Watercolor, acrylic, and gouache are often considered practice mediums to study for the use of oil paint since they are fast-drying, water-based, and less expensive. I've always found watercolor and gouache to have a much easier learning curve than oils since you can turn out work much faster and improve quicker as a result.
Aaron makes one feel like a friendly, knowledge filled visit to a favorite friend with common interests. Love the tidbits he throws in about the artist's life.
Another fascinating thing about Nick’s work is it’s all done with a film camera! He is doing a lot of work towards conservation as well. I wish I had grabbed his first book when it came out.
Little pronunciation guide from a Dutch person on Rien Poortvliet's name for English speakers: reen (like "seen") poart-vleet ("oa" like "whoa"). I bought his dog book recently - really inspiring!
Thank you so much for sharing these! I am only 6 years into my art journey so being introduced to great artists feels very helpful. My background is animal photography so I get awestruck sometimes when I see how artists captured a sketch or a painting/drawing. Including you. :) Super inspiring!
Glad to see some of these from outside the range of artists that I personally know about, there's a few I'd never heard of. My habit is just to slap the subject in the middle of the page, so I'm very keen to see how different people do composition + staging, and learn a little more about that
Thank you! Loved seeing a peek at your favorite books and artists. Very informative! You explained their artistry and what inspired you about them so well. I would love to see more.
Dear Aron, I very much liked the way, you presented your favourite books. And especially for the last one could see some remembrance in your paintings and art style, for instance the lighting and composition of the lion. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from Germany 👋🏼
Love seeing you talk about Rien Poortvliet! He's definitely one of my favourite Dutch artists and I'm glad to see his influence outside of my own country. His gnome books are super in-depth as well, so it's fun for people into fantasy worldbuilding too.
@@eliannevdlinden6047 It's been on my to-do list for a long time now! I had a museum card for a while but sadly not a lot of time so I never got to it. Good to know it's worth a visit though!
Man Aaron, I am Dutch and thankful that the first book you mention is Rien Poortvliet. I am amazed that all around the world he is known. I just love his books about dogs. And there are some quirky videos on RU-vid in English with him showing his house.
I wonder if you have heard of Victor Ambrus? He made fantastic historical paintings and drawings with a similar expression to Heinrich Kley. His drawings of horses and humans are pretty impressive. Worth checking out if you havent.
Berry's work is awesome, thanks for sharing! I prefer capturing the concepts and ideas over spending all your time rendering, and pieces like his are just a storyboard of information. Much the same way your elephant book just works through all the details on elephants.
Love what you do, you give shout outs to other artists for their work, you make amazing art, you help up and coming animators. Keep up the great work! ❤
That is absolutely incredible! I thought about commenting and asking if there'll ever be a book by Aaron and co. about arts and animation, and then this video comes out!
Dear sir, This made me smile. I was pleasantly surprised you know Dutch artist Rien Poortvliet and started the video with one of his books. I also own this impressive work. He knew how to draw animals/ nature
Don't forget Richard Schmidt! I want Robert Liberace to make an art book soooo badly. Thanks for showing us this. The Robert McLean one gives me confidence. I also want to do unusual animal poses for paintings. Like, the goofy positions house cats get into, or when birds are all flooffed up with their wings hanging down while they preen.
You say you want to....................so wha is stopping you from doing it right as you read this comment ???....We wanna see your floof and preen birds, your goofy house cat posiitions that you can get them into via your imagination , not mine or Mr. B......so get offa here and paint, draw, sculpt...LIKE NOW PLEASE and we will thank you heaps inna future !
I highly recommend to check works of Russian artist Vadim Gorbatov. He is now in his 80s; he spent most of his time in the wild and has many wonderful drawings and paintings of animals from over the world. He does have book published in USA, something about falcons.
There are two other books by Kley that are some of my favorites, and still easily accessible online. I also love Frederic Remington but his books can be a little harder to track down.
I splurged this winter and picked up a bunch of books. Andrew Loomis: Figure drawing for all its worth. One you may find particularly useful for animal anatomy would be "Paleoartists handbook: recreating prehistoric animals in art" by Mark P Witton. Theb theres James Gurney's "Imaginative Realism" and "Color and Light". Meanwhile, every book you shared were excelence given form. Thank you, ive heard of and studied many if these artists but havent had these books so ill seruously consider adding them to my buy list. Oh, I would like to note also that James Gurney has youtube content.
AWESOME! I was just wanting to know what art books you might recommend on the Tuesday/Thursday live stream:) I love your art books, and figured you'd have great recommendations:) Great Video! I definitely want to get some of those for my collection:):)
Im a bit surprised that you haven`t heard of Ralph Thompson, hes a great safari artist and he was excellent with ink. his paintings of lions are out of this world
Question Mr. Blaise, I was wondering why do you look at the ceilling every now and then ? is that a trick like squinting eyes to see the dark spot in a subject ?
As soon as I saw the title of the video, I thought to myself, "Oh, he's gotta Kim's Africa book.", and sure enough... there it is right at the beginning... on the bookshelf.
@@AaronBlaiseArt maybe I’m thinking that the Dance of the Hours was just heavily influenced by his work. I know Walt have his artists a bunch of Kley’s work to look at.
@@reginaldforthright805 Because Kley was a good artist and Walt loved his work. And that's your opinion.Scribbly mess doesn't necessarily mean bad art. It can convey an enormous amount of energy.
Im in trouble. this is like an all you can eat buffet. Abstract design in realism is what sends art over the edge . AI is not capable of creating this type of experience in art. Its human spirit and intelligence interacting with awe wonder beauty and truth
That's the prob. Todays digital brush fills in the stroke by stroke that these guys did by hand and makes todays artists...digital or other media lazy is what alot of us are saying and must take those brushes away once in a while and go to canvas painting for say two weeks out of the month.....but, alas human laziness sadly kicks in. IMO for fact of losing the art soul as it were.......sighhhh...
For animal art I would just study brother bear, Aladdin, Tarzan, lucky Luke, Yakari, jungle book, Dalmatians, ichabod crane and maybe watch some nature footage and go to the zoo. Forget these dusty old tomes.
@reginaldforthright805 no offense to you but i believe that your not a fan of art and see art as beauty or both so on and so forth etc. agian no offense sorry if you feel like i'm doing this on purpose im not. but people like myself and everyone else likes his artbooks so you might not be in the umbrella of appreation and see art as beauty like us your different.
Oh! I went to look at a book I have that has beautiful, expressive people drawings called "He Was One of Us: The Life of Jesus of Nazareth". Wouldn't you know, it's by Rien Poortvliet!
