Month: September 2014
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Eye Candy for Today: Lorenzo Lotto’s Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and Thomas (sacra conversazione), Lorenzo Lotto On Google Art Project, high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original it in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. The 16th century venetian master gives us an idyllic tableau of serene faces, beautifully painted. The angel is just… angelic.
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Olivier Pron
Concept artist and matte painter Olivier Pron has film credits that include Cloud Atlas, Watchmen, X-Men: The Last Stand, Iron Man 3 and Guardians of the Galaxy. It looks at though he may be using a combination of digital painting and models, but I can’t be certain. His blog was only started this month, and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bloemaert tree studies
Studies of Two Pollard Willows, Abraham Bloemaert Pen and brown ink with watercolor. Roughly 8×12 inches (20x30cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Simple, direct and beautifully economical observation from nature. Not a superfluous line.
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Kenny Harris
California based painter Kenny Harris paints landscapes, still life and figurative works, but it is his extraordinary room interiors that captured my attention. Bathed in soft, often indirect light, punctuated by brighter passages of windows or doorways, his interiors are rendered in subtle, dimensional layers of muted colors and painterly textures. Harris studied Fine Art…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh Autumn landscape
Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, Vincent van Gogh You might come across versions of this image on the web that are much more colorful — with bright oranges and reds — but despite Van Gogh’s penchant for brilliantly high-chroma paintings in his later career, I don’t believe that’s the case here. I haven’t see the…
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Brian Miller (Orlin Culture Shop)
Brina Miller is a Colorado based illustrator who brands himself as Orlin Culture Shop. His clients include Adobe, GQ Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, and Penguin Publishing, among others. Miller works in a sharp, angular style that feels both modern and delightfully retro (maybe modern-retro-futuristic, or something like that). He utilizes both high and low…