Month: February 2014
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Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin’s pine forest
Morning in a Pine Forest, Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky. Shishkin supposedly had help from Savitsky in painting the bears, and perhaps some of the layout, but Savitsky’s name was later removed from the attribution. Link is to Wikimedia Commons; click through for a high-resolution version. Original is in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Otto Björnik
Illustrator Otto Björnik combines a charming drawing style with intricate line work in his whimsical drawings. He contrasts areas of white with areas of texture and detail to lead the viewer’s eye through his compositions. Occasionally, he augments his pen and ink work with color, as in his pieces done for Yahoo (above, bottom). In…
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Lorenzo Chávez
Lorenzo Chávez is a painter based in Colorado who paints the American West and Southwest in both pastels and oils. His pastels have a nicely painterly feeling, and his oils have a textural quality that, between them, give both a sense of continuity of style. His work has a character of light, air and color…
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Eye Candy for Today: Marchal’s Penelope
Penelope, Charles-François Marchal In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A wonderful eye for the textures of the fabrics and the yarn.
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Pol Turgeon
Pol Turgeon is an illustrator whose work feels a bit retro, but not, and a bit referential, but not, and a bit here, but more likely there. Hmmm, let me try again… Pol Turgeon is an illustrator whose work apparently slides side into this reality from small cracks between dimensions. Unfortunately, his website is apparently…
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The Inscrutable Eye: Sargent watercolors at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
For those in the Boston area who missed the show of Sargent Watercolors at the Museum of Fine Art, (which I mentioned here on