Month: August 2012
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Stapleton Kearns
Stapleton Kearns is a landscape painter based in New England. When I first encountered his work some years ago (it can take me a while to get to these posts, folks), I felt it had a nice feeling of being influenced by early 20th century American landscape painters like John Fabian Carlson and, to a…
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Eye Candy for Today: View of the Hague, and study by Cornelis Springer
by Cornelis Springer, and . In the Rijksmuseum; original pages and . In many ways, I like the wonderfully painterly study more than the finished painting, though both are beautiful.
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Anna and Elena Balbusso
Anna and Elena Balbusso are illustrators based in Milan, Italy. They are twins and create their work as a team. There is a page on their website devoted to their working process. Both studied at the Academy of Fine Arts “Brera” of Milan, and the University of Milan. Their work has appeared in numerous publications…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bierstadt’s California Spring
California Spring by Albert Bierstadt. On Google Art Project, click image for zoom controls. Original is in de Young Museum in San Francisco.
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Björn Hurri (update)
Björn Hurri is a concept artist working in the gaming industry, He has worked for companies like NCsoft, Catalyst Game Labs and SEGA and is currently the Lead Artist for Opus Artz, a production design agency based in London. When I wrote about his work back in 2008, I highlighted his fun and, at the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Jansz Treck still life
Still Life with a Pewter Flagon and Two Ming Bowls, Jan Jansz Treck. Faded, but still beautiful. The bowls are an odd color because the artist used a type of smalt (cobalt glass) blue that was not lightfast. In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom icons to right of the image.