Month: June 2014
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Aureliano de Beruete (update)
As I expected, online resources for Spanish painter Aureliano de Beruete y Moret have widened since I wrote about his work back in 2009, although not quite as much as I had hoped. Available images of his colorful, painterly and textural landscapes are still a bit small in general, and (I think) less reliable in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tarbell’s Mother and Child in a Boat
Mother and Child in a Boat, Edmund Charles Tarbell On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I had the pleasure of seeing this in person as part of a show of Tarbell’s work that visited the Delaware Art Museum back in 2002, and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Blechen’s Forest Path
Forest Path near Spandau, Carl Blechen On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Blechen gives his forest scene a wonderfully theatrical character of light, without losing the naturalistic feeling of a forest interior after a rain.
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Chris J. Anderson (update)
Chris J. Anderson is a concept artist and illustrator who I first profiled back in 2009. Since I last wrote about his work, Anderson has a new website and blog, but you can also find additional work on the archive of his old blog. Anderson works in many phases of concept design, including character design,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Paul Sandby ink and wash drawing
View in Windsor Park, Paul Sandby Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over a graphite underdrawing. 13 3/16 x 20 1/4 in. (335 x 515 mm). In the Morgan Library & Museum. Click Zoom, then use Full Screen and zoom controls under image. Info at left.
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Kevin Menck
Kevin Menck is a plein-air painter based in Nashville, Tennessee whose work I’ve been following for a number of years. After 15 years as a freelance illustrator, Menck transitioned into gallery painting, specifically plein air landscape painting. He has been posting his work and blogging his experiences in the field since 2007, and recently launched…