Month: March 2016
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Eye Candy for Today: Cornelis Springer cathedral
A Cathedral on a Townsquare in Summer, Cornelis Springer I just love Springer’s atmospheric, textural cityscapes. As is often the case, this one is a tour-de-force in the use of value relationships to both suggest space and define the composition. I find the contrast between the dark building in the left foreground and the almost…
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Eye Candy for Today: John William North’s Spring
Spring, John William North Watercolor and gouache on paper; roughly 11×17″ (29x43cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The delicate value contrasts and stippled tones of North’s watercolor give a wonderful sense of those early spring days in which both the atmosphere and the land seem ripe with the promise of future…
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Finnian MacManus
Originally from Chicago, Finnian MacManus is a concept artist based in Pasadena, CA. His clients include VSA Partners, Easley Dunne Games and Sony Santa Monica Studio. MacManus works in a digital mixed-media approach, combining digital painting in Photoshop with CG modeling in Cinema 4D and Vue. He has a nice touch for creating environments and…
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Eye Candy for Today: David Cox pencil drawing
Llanfair Church, North Wales for A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours, David Cox Graphite and red chalk, roughly 6×16 inches (14x40cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which also has a downloadable file. Victorian…
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Tai-Shan Schierenberg
Tai-Shan Schierenberg’s intense, sometimes enigmatic portraits appear to be composed of rough-edged geometric chunks of color that one minute say “person”, and the next shout “paint!” Schierenberg is an English painter based in London, whose work in in the National Portrait Gallery, London; and whose subjects include Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Joaquim Vayreda’s Beginning of Spring
The Beginning of Spring, Joaquim Vayreda Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional D’Art de Catalunya. A wonderful painterly evocation of the cusp of Spring by Spanish painter Joaquim Vayreda, who painted in the Catalan region in Spain in the late 19th…