Month: December 2012
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Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2013!
As I’ve done for the past seven years, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with more Saturday Evening Post covers by J.C. Leyendecker, the great American illustrator who originated the modern tradition of representing the new year as a baby. My your new year be filled with beautiful art!
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Eye Candy for Today: Vigée Le Brun self portrait
Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. A stunning self portrait by one of my favorite underrated painters. Vigée Le Brun had an uncanny ability to make the fashionably pale skin of her female portrait subjects, herself included, almost luminescent. This is apparently a copy she made of an earlier version…
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Sherrie York
Sherrie York is a Colorado artist who works primarily in the medium of reduction linocut. This is a relief printing method in which the run of a given print is done in stages of impressions from the same block —as the block is re-cut and reduced in printing surface to be printed in a different…
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet winter scene
Ice Floes, Claude Monet. A marvel of atmosphere and suggestion. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen and Zoom or download.
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Edwin Rhemrev
Edwin Rhemrev is a visual development artist based in the Nertherlands who works in the fields of gaming and theme park design. His website has galleries of his work in sections for environments and characters, as well as a sketchbook. Rhemrev also maintains a blog on which you can find works in progress, news of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Millais’ Mariana
Mariana, by Sir John Everett Millais. In the Tate, Britain. Large version on the Google Art Project. Click in image area at lower right for zoom control.