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Month: October 2014

  • Eye Candy for Today: Grimshaw’s Stapleton Park

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    Stapleton Park near Pontefract Sun, John Atkinson Grimshaw On WikiArt. The original is in a private collection. Grimshaw loved to do these scenes of softly lit Autumn evenings with a lone figure, usually a woman seen from behind, walking down an empty stretch of road. See also my previous Eye Candy post of Grimwhaw’s Evening…

  • Wayne Haag

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    Wayne Haag is an Australian matte painter and illustrator whose film credits include The Fifth Element, Lord of the Rings, The Wolverine, Maze Runner and Gods of Egypt, as well as the television series Farscape. Haag works both in digital and traditional media, but prefers when possible to paint science fiction subjects in oil. As…

  • New Draw Mix Paint painting instruction course

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    As I reported in 2013, well regarded painter Mark Carder, who some years ago created a specific instruction method for those learning to paint, had put much of his former course into a series of new videos and made them freely available on his site Draw Mix Paint. Carder has recently taken those videos, added…

  • Edward Kinsella

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    Edward Kinsella III is a St. Louis based illustrator whose client list includes The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Boston Globe, Wired, Washington Post, Simon and Schuster, and Penguin, among others. His approach to his subjects, though sometimes straightforward, often includes a narrative twist. His visual…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Cornelis Springer’s St Laurens

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    Delftse Vaart and the St Laurens church in Rotterdam, Cornelis Springer Image on Wikimedia Commons. I don’t know the location of the original. I assume it’s in a private collection, as the painting came up for auction through Sotheby’s in 2012. I love these 19th century Dutch cityscapes by Springer; they’re marvels of texture and…

  • Zinaida Serebriakova

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    Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (née Lanceray) was a Ukrainian/Russian painter active in the early 20th century. Born near what is now Kharkiv, Ukraine into a well-to-do family, she studied at an art school under the direction of Ilya Repin, and went on to study with noted portraitist Osip Braz. She also traveled to Italy and Paris,…