Month: January 2018
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Igor Sava
Originally from Kotovsk, Russia, and now based in Rome, Igor Sava is a watercolor painter who focuses on cityscapes in his adopted country. Sava’s approach combines deft control of edges with the visual charm of freely mixed washes. His architectural subjects carry a feeling of atmosphere and light, as well as the textures of their…
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Eye Candy for Today: Silvered Brook by John Fabian Carlson
Silvered Brook, John Fabian Carlson Link is to file page on Wikimedia Commons; I don’t know the status of the original. Swedish-American painter John Fabian Carlson was noted for his scenes of winter woods. I love the way he finds so much variation of color in his tree trunks, while maintaining their coherence as an…
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Phillip R. Jackson
Phillip Jackson is a still life painter based in Mississippi, where he is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Among other training, Jackson studied with painting professor Dennis Wojtkiewicz at Bowling Green State University. (See my previous posts on Dennis Wojtkiewicz.) Some of Jackson’s paintings take a straightforward but…
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Boris Arkadievich Diodorov
Boris Diodorov is a Russian illustrator known for his popular interpretations of classics, particularly works by Hans Christian Anderson like The Snow Queen And The Little Mermaid. He is also known for his illustrations for “Vinni-Pukh”, Boris Zakhoder’s translated version of “Winnie the Pooh”. Diodorov’s illustrations have a nice feeling reminiscent of the turn of…
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Eye candy for Today: Edward Redfield’s Winter in the Valley
Winter in the Valley, Edward Willis Redfield Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; original is in the Reading Public Museum. There is a downloadable version here, part of this article about a previous traveling show that featured the painting, but it seems overly saturated, I’ve color corrected that image for the images…