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Month: January 2015

  • “Flowers of the Sky” on the Public Domain Review

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    “Flowers of the Sky” is a post on the Public Domain Review in which they have collected some historic depictions of comets and meteors, and arranged them in chronological order — including a section of the Bayeux Tapestry (above, top). The images have links to larger versions. While you’re on the Public Domain Review (my…

  • Eye Candy for Today: David Wilkie’s Letter of Introduction

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    The Letter of Introduction, David Wilkie Link is to Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Galleries of Scotland. Wilkie gives us a scene supposedly referenced from his own experience, as a young man presents what is evidently an insufficient letter of introduction to a disdainful older man.…

  • Tom Uttech

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    Wisconsin painter Tom Uttech paints representations of the northern woods with a unique style that carries flavors of realism, magic realism and even primitivism (thinking of Henri Rousseau here). His moody, often dark woodlands sometimes only hint at the presence of animal life, and at other times are teeming with it, skies filled with birds,…

  • Yoshiharu Sato’s Studio Ghibli style TV commercial

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    I don’t know about you, but I’m really tired of CGI special effects in television commercials. Some years ago, I was an enthusiastic fan of CGI; now I’m weary of the way computer generated effects saturate almost everything. often as a substitute for story or characterizartion. What a refreshing change it is to see something…

  • Ruta Korshunova

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    Ruta Korshunova is a painter living near Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Amid the turmoil and uncertainty of life in Ukraine during the border conflict with the Russian Federation, Korshunova finds the presence of mind to paint quiet, contemplative still life; bringing to her commonplace objects a sense of timelessness. Korshunova was at one point…

  • Wil Freeborn’s Coffee Spots

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    Wil Freeborn is an illustrator and designer based in Gourock, Scotland. I mentioned his work on Lines and Colors back in 2010. Freeborn likes to do location sketches in watercolor and/or ink. Late last year, he painted a series of watercolors of coffee shops in and around areas he visits. They were composed in a…