Month: September 2023
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Eye Candy for Today: Rubens Santoro Venice canalscape
Along the Canal, Rubens Santoro; oil on canvas; roughly 16 x 13 inches ( 42 x 33 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia commons; I don’t know the location of the original. This view of a Venice canal by Italian artist Rubens Santoro reminds me strongly of similar subjects by Spanish painter Martin…
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Rudy Siswanto (update)
Rudy Siswanto is an Illustration Craft Lead at Riotgames; which basically means he leads a team of illustrators and concept designers who help craft the look and feel of particular games. I’m not a gamer, so I don’t recognize the games for which these images were created, but many of them involve animal characters that…
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Eye Candy for Today: William McCloskey still life
Apples in a Basket, William Joseph McCloskey; oil on canvas; roughly 8 x 18 inches (20 x 46 cm). Link is to Wikimedia Commons. The original is in a private collection. This still life by American painter William Joseph McCloskey — who was active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries — is much…
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Sydney Long
Sydney Long was an Australian painter and printmaker whose style was influenced by the Australian Heidelberg school, French Barbizon school plein air, Symbolism and Art Nouveau.