Month: January 2015
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Eye Candy for Today: Meindert Hobbema watermill
A Watermill, Meindert Hobbema In the Rijksmuseum. The wonderful 17th century Dutch landscape painter Meindert Hobbema — who studied with Jacob van Ruisdael — gives us an idyllic view of a watermill, set amid trees and reeds bent in a breeze, perhaps in anticipation of a coming storm. Hobbema had a masterful touch with foliage,…
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Mark Molnar
Mark Molnar is an illustrator and concept artist working in the film and gaming industries; his clients include LucasFilm, Time Warner, Universal, MGM, Legendary Pictures and Weta Workshop, among others. In addition to his nice control of atmosphere and muted color relationships, Molnar’s work is rich with a variety of textures, giving his pieces a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Raphaelle Peale’s strawberries
Still Life with Strawberries and Nuts, Raphaelle Peale Link is to a large image found on NPR, there is another, smaller and somewhat darker image on Wikipedia. The original is in the Art Institute of Chicago. Raphaelle Peale, one of Charles Wilson Peale’s artistic (and artistically named) sons, was America’s first dedicated still life painter,…
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David Malan (update)
David Malan is a Utah based artist whose range os styles extends from elegant realist portraiture to delightfully exaggerated caricature. Malan was the subject of one of my earliest Lines and Colors posts, back in October of 2006. At the time, he was workign as a concept artist as well as an illustrator; whether that…
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Emilio Sánchez-Perrier
Emilio Sánchez-Perrier was a 19th century Spanish painter known for his quiet idyllic scenes of life along rivers and streams, as well as his views of Venice. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Seville, later in Madrid and in Paris in the ateliers of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Félix Ziem. It was apparently…