Month: January 2015
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Eye Candy for Today: Louis Apol winter landscape
Een januari-avond in het Haagse bos, Louis Apol In the Rijksmuseum. I think the title translates roughly as “A January evening in the Hague forest”. In addition to the muted colors and soft edged value transitions in which Apol achieves his almost tonalist atmosphere, I particularly love his textural application of paint.
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Sylvain Coutouly
Sylvain Coutouly, AKA “Slyve”, is a concept artist for the gaming industry, based in Toronto and currently working for Capy. Beyond that, I can’t find much in the way of bio or credits. His web presence is a portfolio on ArtStation and a blog. I’m unsure how much of the look of his recent work…
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Tony Pro
California artist Tony Pro had early artistic guidance from his father, Southwest and wildlife painter Julio Pro, received his formal education from California State University, and also studied informally with well known illustrator Glen Orbik. Pro has taken his influences and his enthusiasm for academic and other past masters and developed a style of western…
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Eye Candy for today: John Brett watercolor of the Amalfi Coast
Near Sorrento, John Brett Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; high resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, UK. I got to see the sea and curve of the land from the cliffs of Sorrento when I visited the Amalfi Coast some years ago,…
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The Tale of How book rereleased
Since 2006, I’ve been following the fascinatingly idiosyncratic work of South African artist and illustrator Ree Treweek. Treweek, along with animator/filmmaker Jannes Hendrikz and composer Marcus Smit, are collectively known as The Blackheart Gang. The group achieved notice for their deliriously quirky and beautiful animated short The Tale of How. They went from there to…
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Eye Candy for Today: unfinished Paul Sandby oil sketch
An Unfinished View of the West Gate, Canterbury; Paul Sandby Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art. Here Paul Sandby, primarily known as a watercolorist, has started a landscape sketch in oil on paper. He’s laid in…