Month: September 2014
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Eye Candy for Today: Rusiñol bridge
Bridge over a River, Santiago Rusiñol On Google Art Project, high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya – MNAC, Barcelona. Beautifully direct painterly realism by the Catalonian painter. See my post on Santiago Rusiñol.
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“Women Painting Women” at Principle Gallery, Charleston
“Women Painting Women” is a collaborative project, founded by Sadie Valeri, Alia El Bermani and Diane Feissel, that’s been represented by a blog since 2009, and showcased as an annual exhibition at the Principle Gallery in Charleston, SC for the past five years. The title is perfectly descriptive, and the list of highly skilled participating…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tanner’s Seine
The Seine, Henry Ossawa Tanner Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, zoomable version here; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Though not the subject matter for which he is best known, brilliant American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, who spent most of his later career in France, painted a number of beautifully atmospheric…
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Sally Tharp (update)
Since I last wrote about Sally Tharp four years ago, she has expanded her variety of approach and subject matter, added more work to her online portfolio, and is now represented by the Shain Gallery in Charlotte, NC. Her primary source of inspiration and fascination, however, remains with the way light cascades, reflects and refracts…
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How to Sharpen a Pencil for Drawing – Karl Gnass
At first I though this would be superficial, and though it does go through the basics we all think we know from art school, I’ve been sharpening artist pencils for more years than I can count, and I learned a few things. Karl Gnass transitioned from a career as concept and storyboard artist into teaching…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bouguereau’s Work Interrupted
Work Interrupted, William-Adolphe Bouguereau Image on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College. Beautifully controlled values and subtle, reserved color in this fanciful depiction of a young woman distracted from her work of winding balls of wool by thoughts of romance — in the person of Cupid, who delicately dabs her…