Month: October 2023
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Peter Jablokow
Peter Jablokow is a watercolor painter from Illinois with a particular fascination for industrial forms, often weathered and rusted, which he renders with a feeling for texture as well as color and values. Many of his paintings use dramatic compositions with severe perspective and unusual angles of view. In some cases the entire composition is…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth Esty Organ advertisement ink drawing
Advertisment for Esty Residence Pipe Organ, pen and ink illustration by Franklin Booth, as it appeared in the November, 1923 issue of Country Life magazine. I don’t know the dimaneions of the original art. Link is to the Organ Historical Society. Interesting to compare this illustration to another of his for the same company. Who…
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Charlie Hunter (update)
We are spoiled by color. It’s everwhere we look, bright colors to attract our attention. Many contemporary painters make a point of using bright, vibrant colors to do just that. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but often we miss noticing the other characteristics of painting that we take for granted. Charlie Hunter is a…
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Eye Candy for Today: detail from ink and color scroll by Wang Hui
The Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji’nan to Mount Tai, (detail), Wang Hui; ink and color on silk. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is just the beginning image from a hand scroll that is roughly 26 inches high and over 45 feet long (68 x 1394 cm). Wang…
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Dave Malan (update 2023)
Dave Malan is an artist an illustrator I’ve featured twice before, most recently back in 2015. Since then he has updated his website with more of his delightful illustrations, portraits, and drawings. As you might guess from my choice of example images, I’m particularly fond of his pencil portrait drawings. These range from brief sketches…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Merritt Chase pastel interior
Hall at Shinnecock, William Merrit Chase, pastel on canvas, 32 x 41″ (82 x 104 cm); in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. The image on the page linked above is in a small slideshow, larger image here. In 1891 American painter William Merritt Chase moved to the Shinnecock hills on Long…