Month: August 2012
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Eye Candy for Today: Young Woman Drawing
Young Woman Drawing by Marie-Denise Villers. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” under the image and use zoom or download arrow. See my previous post on Marie-Denise Villers, and here.
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Patrick Faulwetter digital plein air painting
Long before the relatively recent advent of the iPad and the digital painting apps for it that have ushered in a new wave of “digital plein air painting”, some artists, myself included, were painting digitally from life using laptop computers and pressure sensitive tablets. Most of these artists had backgrounds in other types of digital…
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Patrick Faulwetter
Originally from Germany, Patrick Faulwetter is a concept artist who started with an interest in architecture that then then shifted into automotive design and led him to work with the Volkswagen and Audi Design Center in California. He later moved into concept design for the entertainment industry, and his film credits include Priest, GI Joe…
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David Roberts
19th Scottish century painter and printmaker David Roberts was known primarily as an orientalist, producing richly detailed paintings and a large number of finely executed lithographs of Egypt andt the near east, using as reference sketches made during several extended trips to the region. Roberts began his career as a designer and painter of stage…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frank W. Benson’s Summer
“Summer“, Frank W. Benson. On Google Art Project. Original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The model for the very human representation of the allegorical figure was likely Benson’s wife, Ellen. I love the variety of color in her face and in the “white” gown.
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Franco Matticchio
As far as I can tell, Italian illustrator , cartoonist and gallery artist Franco Matticchio doesn’t have a dedicated web presence, but his friend, designer Laura Ottina, has been regularly been posting examples of his wonderful illustrations on her blog, Animalarium (link is a general search for posts related to Matticchio). In addition, Ottina maintains…