Month: March 2014
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Eye Candy for Today: Georges de La Tour candlelight scene
The Repentant Magdalen, Georges de La Tour Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. High-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. La Tour gives us one of his (if you’ll excuse the expression) tour de force candle-lit scenes, in which the flame itself is hidden, but the forms are revealed by the direct but…
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Larry Roibal’s six years of newspaper sketches
For the past six years, illustrator Larry Roibal has been sketching on the pages of his morning newspaper — drawing portraits of politicians, world leaders, entertainers, sports figures and other newsworthy individuals directly on sections of newspaper articles about them, and then publishing the sketches to his blog. Roibal has collected all 1550 of his…
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Eye Candy for Today: Johansen’s kitchen interior
Kitchen interior. The artist’s wife arranging flowers, Viggo Johansen On Google Art Project. High resolution downloadable version available on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Skagins Museum, Denmark. Sometimes the underappreciated genre of room interiors encompasses the best qualities of still life and figurative works.
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Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches
Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches (Zoological atlas or collection of 100 plates), by Paul Gervais, is a volume meant to accompany a large set of books on Zoology. Published in France in 1844, the book’s 100 plates feature over 200 illustrations by various artists of a number of different species, both extant…
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Paul Sullivan
Concept artist and character designer Paul Sullivan has managed to create a particularly appealing balance between detailed rendering and a jaunty, cartoon-like drawing style — giving his digital paintings a lighthearted flavor without losing the drama often characteristic of concept art. Projects he has worked on include: The Book of Life, Megamind, Turkeys, Afro Samurai,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Holman-Hunt’s Isabella
Isabella and the Pot of Basil, William Holman Hunt (large version) Image from Get Into New Castle. Original is in the Liang Art Gallery, which doesn’t have its collection online. This article on The Journal shows the size of the original. This is the larger of two versions painted by Holman-Hunt. The smaller one, which…