Month: August 2017
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James Gurney: Flower Painting in the Wild
Flower Painting in the Wild is the latest full length (hour-long) instructional video from author, illustrator and plein air painter James Gurney. As Gurney points out in the introduction, the approach to painting flowers he takes here is different than the usual flower arrangement in a vase common to still life or the traditional garden…
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Eye Candy for Today: Emil Carlsen Still life with roses and mandolin
Still life with roses and mandolin, Emil Carlsen Another beautiful still life by turn of the century Danish-American master Emil Carlsen. This is from the Emil Carlsen Archives, larger image here. The Emil Carlsen Archives is a terrific resource, but I haven’t figured out their thinking in terms of image display. If you click on…
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William Russell Flint
Originally from Scotland, William Russell Flint was an illustrator and watercolor painter who spent much of his career in London, and traveled and painted in France and Italy. Flint’s illustrations of literary or mythological scenes, as well as Gilbert and Sullivan operas, have a nice quality of Golden Age illustration to them. He is also…
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Charles Conder
Born in England, Charles Conder spent a significant part of his career in Australia, where he became integral to the Heidelberg School of Australian art, becoming friends with notable figures like Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts, and sharing a studio with the latter. Conder spent the latter part of his career in Europe, where he…
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Edmund Blair Leighton (update)
When I first highlighted Victorian painter Edmund Blair Leighton back in 2006, resources for images of his paintings on the web were pretty thin. Since then, some new images sources have made it much more rewarding to view his work. Leighton’s two main themes were of romanticized medieval subjects — knights in armor, chivalry, elegant…
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Eye Candy for Today: Watanabe Seitei ink and color on silk
Bird on Branch Watching Spider, Watanabe Seitei Ink and color on silk; roughly 14 x 10 inches (36 x 26 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the Download or Enlarge links under the image on their site. Even though the color in the image looks much like watercolor, when the…