Month: December 2014
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Doug Panton
Doug Panton is a Canadian designer and illustrator whose long and impressive client list includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Barron’s Weekly, US News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The Globe & Mail, The Toronto Star, Oxford University Press, HarperCollins, MacMillan’s, McGraw-Hill and Scholastic. Panton’s imaginative, beautifully finessed and…
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Travis Seymour
Travis Seymour is an American artist who studied both in the U.S. and Italy, and currently resides in London, UK. Seymour works with both still life and figurative subjects, and his website features galleries of both, as well as a selection of his refined drawings. He also has a blog that features additional images, as…
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Greg Call
Greg Call is a Montana based illustrator who specializes in fantasy and adventure subjects. Call is noted in particular for his illustrations for the Peter and the Starcatchers series of novels, that pick up where Peter Pan left off. Originally from Colorado, he studied at the Colorado Institute of Art and later at the Art…
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Landscape with a Village on the Outskirts of Rome Mariano Barbasán
Landscape with a Village on the Outskirts of Rome, Mariano Barbasán On Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid. I love the bright, sun-splashed feeling of the walls and water, and the textural, painterly quality overall.
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Daily Painting, Carol Marine
I’ve been following the “daily painting” phenomenon since 2005, when I wrote about a blog called A Painting a Day by Virginia painter Duane Keiser. Keiser had committed himself to painting one small painting each day and posting it to his blog. I commented at the time that I thought this was a terrific idea,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Leighton’s The Accolade
The Accolade, Edmund Blair Leighton Image file on Wikipedia, from here. For more, see my posts on Edmund Blair Leighton, and Eye Candy: Edmund Leighton’s neighbor.