I got an email from a cartoonist (gruhn) who has a website called webdonuts. He does daily single frame cartoons that are a real hoot and reminiscent of the old Gary Larson Far Side stuff - same kind of zany humor. Anyway he did a Medieval Comic that he thought I would like to share with my readers. He was right.
You can check out more webdonuts on his site at: Webdonuts.com
I am real big on paper projects. I do love them and have made lots of them. And, I was very surprised to stumble across a paper art that I hadn’t heard about before. It is the lost Japanese art of Tatebanko or Paper Dioramas. While in Japan I found a couple of these projects and made them. These projects are not easy to come by and the art is still very much unknown. But I thought it would be cool to make a complete package that other people could download and put together. So this is what I did. I designed a project I call “The Tatebanko Castle” It’s a nice little castle scene. You can download it, print it up and put it together yourself. Nice little project and should only take you an hour or so.
You can find the Project here: The tatebanko Castle project
I don’t often talk about the Art or Philosophy of the Middle Ages or the Renaisssance. But I thought you might want to see one of the most remarkable paintings I have ever seen. It actually covers both Art and Philosophy rather neatly.
It is a work by Rembrandt called :Philosopher in Meditation
Now, I could spend quite a bit of time on a soliloquy about all the amazing things about this painting and I could go on to talk about how painting can express things in a language all its own that doesn’t require words/ or where words are not adequate and well this painting also covers both those things. I just suggest you take a look at this beautiful work and let it sink in for a couple of minutes. This is a good example of the legacy of the Middle ages, the Renaissance, and the Englightenment has brought us. We owe a great debt to those centuries.
