Month: September 2013
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Koo Schadler
Koo Schadler is a contemporary artist who favors techniques that were common in Medieval and early Renaissance art, but are not in wide use today, notably egg tempera painting and silverpoint drawing. Though both mediums have their modern adherents, they are demanding in a way that many artists do not find appealing. Schadler, however, is…
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Tony Cliff
Tony Cliff is an illustrator and comics artist whose comic story, Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, was published this year in graphic novel format — to wide acclaim. The heroine is a kind of 19th century Indiana Jones/Laura Croft adventurer, but portrayed with more originality, wit and style than that description might imply. You…
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Eye Candy for Today: Cropsey Autumn landscape
Autumn on Greenwood Lake, Jasper Francis Cropsey On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Use zoom controls in right side of image. Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Today is the Autumnal Equinox, and marks the beginning of Autumn (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere). The day and night are equal in…
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Lindsey Carr
Lindsey Carr is a contemporary painter and printmaker whose current series of works takes their inspiration from her fascination with the numerous atlases of natural history that proliferated in the 19th century, in particular those from Eastern Asia. Her recent works explore the look and feel of these books right down to their appearance of…
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Theo Prins
Theo Prins is a concept artist currently working with ArenaNet, where his credits include titles like GuildWars 2. His approach to digital painting appears to involve a process of layering transparent areas over opaque ones, like digital washes. The result is work in which suggestion plays as much a part in the perception of the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Waugh's Knight of the Holy Grail
The Knight of the Holy Grail, Frederick J. Waugh. In the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Click “View Larger” under the image.