Month: January 2016
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Eye Candy for Today: Corot painting of Castel Sant’Angelo
The Bridge and Castel Sant’Angelo with the Cupola of St. Peters, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Link is to WikiArt, large version here; original is in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Leigon of Honor). Corot painted in several styles through his career, but this is an example of my favorite type of approach on his part.…
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Artur Sadlos
Artur Sadlos is a concept artist, illustrator and art director based in Poland and working in the gaming industry. His projects include For Honor, Total War: Warhammer, Halo 5, Batman Dark Flight and Dead Island. Though his ability to display work from some of his professional projects is apparently limited by rights agreements, the work…
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Natalie Hirschman
Though she also paints landscape and still life subjects, South African artist Natalie Hirschman finds her primary inspiration in figures and portraits. These are portrayed against rough, textural backgrounds. Hirschman’s use of lost and found edges allows her subjects to both be set off by their backgrounds and blend with them, giving her compositions a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Pierre Houel’s View of a Sepulchre
View of a Sepulchre in the Underground Grotto near the Church of S.Nicola on the Island of Lipari, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel In the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Gouache on paper, roughly 12×12″ (30x30cm) This beautiful gouache painting by the 18th century French painter Jean-Pierre Houel conveys a wonderful feeling for both the shadowed recesses of…
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Tom Nachreiner
After establishing a successful carer as an illustrator, Wisconsin artist Tom Nachreiner transitioned into gallery painting. His landscapes, cityscapes and figures are based on a framework of solid draftsmanship, allowing him to apply his paint in loose, gestural strokes, at times taking his compositions close to the edge of abstraction. I particularly enjoy his use…
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Ivan Sulima
Ivan Sulima is a Ukrainian illustrator who focuses on children’s book illustration. Aside from that, there is little bio information on his website or Behance portfolio. Among his projects is a free interactive iPad book titled Rolling Pea.