Month: May 2013
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Martin Johnson Heade
Nineteenth century American painter Martin Johnson Heade painted landscapes, seascapes, still life and the occasional portrait, but is best known for his paintings of tropical birds, particularly hummingbirds, perched amid orchids and other exotic flowers. These he painted in almost diorama-like compositions, usually set against backgrounds of mist shrouded tropical forest. The overall effect is…
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Eye Candy for Today: Lerolle’s Organ Rehearsal
The Organ Rehearsal, Henry Lerolle In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and zoom or download arrow.
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Jeremy Deveraturda
Jeremy Deveraturda is an illustrator and digital painter who studied at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and moved from his initial love of watercolor into the appealing freedom of digital art. His light-filled digital seascapes and landscapes have something of the feeling of gouache, and display his admiration for artists like Sorolla and…
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Durer’s Great Piece of Turf
Like his remarkable Hare, Albrecht Durer’s study in watercolor, pen and ink of a clump of earth containing an assortment of wild plants, known as the Great Piece of Turf, is a remarkable example of the artist’s penetrating powers of observation and brilliant rendering. Like his Hare, the Great Piece of Turf has become one…
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Doodle 4 Google
Those who don’t, like me, use a shortcut for search in a browser bar, but instead actually go to the Google homepage, will frequently see Google Doodles. These are versions of the Google logo made of illustrated elements that, to one degree or anther, suggest or form the letters of the word. Google has artists…
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Charlie Hunter
When walking around during the recent Wayne Plein Air Festival here in Southeastern Pennsylvania, looking for painters working in the streets of the town (and feeling a bit like a birder searching for rare species, as many of the participants had found off the beaten path locations to paint), I came across Vermont artist Charlie…