Month: June 2025
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Eye Candy for Today: Stanistaw Mastowski watercolor landscape
Marsh Landscape by Stanisław Mastowski, watercolor, roughly 6 x 18″ (15 x 46 cm), in the collection of the National Museum in Cracow, Poland. The link is to the image page on Wikimedia Commons, from which you can access the large version of the image. I recommend it; the crops I’ve shown here don’t give…
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David Hohn
David Hohn is an illustrator living and working in Portland, Oregon. His works have a lively, energetic character that lends itself well to children’s book illustration. With a generally bright palette, nicely stylized drawing and a sure sense of value and atmosphere, he conjures scenes from stories both classic and modern. His website includes a…
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Summer at the beach with Joaquin Sorolla
Spanish Painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, loved to paint at the beach in his native city, Valencia. At times, he would set up a kind of wind and sun break with sheets strung between poles arranged as walls on three sides of his easel.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hal Foster Prince Valiant comics panel
I place comics artist Hal Foster, creator, author and artist of the early to mid 20th century Prince Valiant newspaper comic strip, among the greatest pen and ink artists of the last two centuries The Prince Valiant strip in its heyday was given a full comics section page. Here, in a single panel from a…
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Benjamin West’s portrait of King George III of England
Portrait of George III, Benjamin West, oil on canvas, roughly 100 x 72 in. (255 x 183 cm), in the collection of the Royal Collection Trust. American born painter Benjamin West, successful in the US, and specifically here his home state of Pennsylvania, moved to England after a European tour at the age of 25,…
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Paint List
Paint List is an independent artists’ paint testing, review and information website and YouTube channel created by Melissa Carmon and Jonathan Myers. I’m not sure how I was unaware of this until now; there is quite a bit of accumulated material, though the YouTube channel was only started two years ago. This is an excellent,…