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Month: November 2014

  • Eye Candy for Today: Roslin’s Lady with the Veil

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    The Lady with the Veil, Alexander Roslin Zoomable image on Google Art Project, downloadable high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Nationalmuseum Sweden. Roslin, a Swedish Rococo portrait painter who spent much of his career in France, used his wife, pastel painter Marie-Suzanne Giroust, as his model for this enigmatic and alluringly…

  • Gemi

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    Gemi is the professional name used by a Japanese illustrator who works in watercolor (or its digital equivalent, I’m uncertain); and whose compositions often center on a lone young woman in contemplative situations. Though some of her work is of more commonplace subjects, in the stylistic vein of manga and anime, much of it is…

  • Laurent Gapaillard

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    Laurent Gapaillard is a French concept and visual development artist for the film and gaming industries. He is also noted for children’s book illustration, particularly The Yark, written by Bertrand Santini (images above, bottom four) Gapaillard has a blog, though it hasn’t been active for a couple of years, and doesn’t include much in the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Cropsey’s Starrucca Viaduct

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    Starrucca Viaduct, Pennsylvania, Jasper Francis Cropsey On Google Art Project, high resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Toledo Museum of Art. Given the level of detail, Cropsey’s painting of the Susquehanna River Valley, and the great railroad viaduct that spanned the river in northeastern Pennsylvania, is smaller in scale that might…

  • Charles Santore

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    Philadelphia illustrator Charles Santore stated out doing editorial illustrations — individual pieces that accompanied articles in periodicals — but once he experienced an assignment to illustrate a children’s book, a new edition of Beatrix Potter’s Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1985, he realized that he much preferred the extended thematic possibilities of book illustration, with…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Herbert Railton pen and ink illustration

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    Entance to the Poets Corner, from A Brief Account of Westminster Abbey; Herbert Railton Railton was a well known 19th century British artist and illustrator, and is one of my favorite pen and ink artists. His wonderful architectural renderings are a brilliant balance of detail and suggestion. Intricate textural passages can lead directly into areas…