I participated in the Paint the Town event in Rockland, for the Farnsworth Museum today.
This year I actually got a picture of my painting (I did not do that last year, and now, sadly, have no record of those painting, since they went at the auction.)(I found them here.) My painting sold this year, too. Here it is:

That’s the name of a Marc Chagall painting from 1913, which I got a print of today, by happy happenstance–they were throwing it away at my wife’s work.

It’s done in primary colors, and browns, and white, and is typical of this period of Chagall’s. The view through the window, and the Eiffel tower in the background are symbols for freedom or rising. I’m loving it, and it’s going in my new studio. (Yes, I’m finally moving out of the attic.)
This is from the Guggenheim website:

After Marc Chagall moved to Paris from Russia in 1910, his paintings quickly came to reflect the latest avant-garde styles. In Paris Through the Window, Chagall’s debt to the Orphic Cubism [more] of his colleague Robert Delaunay is clear in the semitransparent overlapping planes of vivid color in the sky above the city. The Eiffel Tower, which appears in the cityscape, was also a frequent subject in Delaunay’s work. For both artists it served as a metaphor for Paris and perhaps modernity itself. Chagall’s parachutist might also refer to contemporary experience, since the first successful jump occurred in 1912. Other motifs suggest the artist’s native Vitebsk. This painting is an enlarged version of a window view in a self-portrait painted one year earlier, in which the artist contrasted his birthplace with Paris. The Janus figure in Paris Through the Window has been read as the artist looking at once westward to his new home in France and eastward to Russia. Chagall, however, refused literal interpretations of his paintings, and it is perhaps best to think of them as lyrical evocations, similar to the allusive plastic poetry of the artist’s friends Blaise Cendrars (who named this canvas) and Guillaume Apollinaire.

ArtyFactory has a page on the evolution of a lithograph of a bull done by Picasso in1945.
From a full fledged “realistic” drawing to the twelve line essence of the animal in the final print.

There’s more interesting stuff on the site also, if you can get past the wretched design.

I found this artist through Lines and Colors website.
So cool I downloaded a pic to use as my desktop for a bit.
Also has a website here.

The Comics Reporter
Steve Gerber died on Sunday. His Howard the Duck (the comic not the atrocious film) was probably one of the highlights of my youth, and one of the things that made me the person I am today.

More about him here, and Howard.