Month: September 2021
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Eye Candy for Today: Janet Fish still life
Red Vase and Yellow Tulips, Janet Fish; oil and graphite on canvas, roughly 42 x 86 in. (107 x 220 cm), private collection; link is to Christie’s Auctions. Janet Fish is a contemporary American painter known for her luminous still life paintings, particularly of clear and colored glassware. For more, see my previous post on…
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James Jebusa Shannon
Born in the U.S., James Jebusa Shannon moved to the UK to study when he was 16, and spent most of his life and career there. Shannon made his mark as a highly successful portrait painter and has been compared to his contemporary, John Singer Sargent.
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Eye Candy for Today: Autumn Trees along a Stream by Hugh Bolton Jones
Autumn Trees along a Stream by Hugh Bolton Jones, oi on canvas, 16 x 24 inches (41 x 61 cm). Link is to page on Wikimedia Commons from which you can view a larger image. I don’t know the location of the original, but it was imaged by Vose Galleries, so I assume it’s in…
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Alberto Varanda
Alberto Varanda is a French comics artist who has worked on a number of projects for different French and Belgian publishers. You can find English language versions of his Little Pierrot comics album on Bookshop.org and Amazon, and French editions of other books on Amazon. His style can range from cartoon like children’s book illustration…
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Eye Candy for Today: Caillebotte’s Yerres, Effect of Rain
Yerres, Effect of Rain, Gustave Caillebotte, oil on canvas, roughly 32 x 23 inches (80x 59 cm). Link is to page on WikiArt, from which you can click “View All Sizes” to get to a larger image. Original is in the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University Bloomington. I had the…
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Lui Ferreya
Lui Ferreya is a freelance artist based in Denver, Colorado. On his website and in his Behance portfolio you will find drawings and other works in media both tradtional and digital. Ferreya breaks down forms, whether of landscape, still life or portraiture, into geometric planes, and further subdivides these into smaller planes that he defines…