Month: September 2025
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Eye Candy for Today: Christian Molsted canal scene
The Canal at Holmes Bridge, Christian Mlested, oi on canvas, roughly 38 x 34 inches ( 96 x 87 cm). Image is sourced from Wikipedia. This painting was auctioned in 2011; I assume it’s currently in a private collection. Danish painter Christian Molsted, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gives…
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A Fresh Look: Botticelli’s Venus (reversed)
When painting or sketching, artists will often use a mirror to briefly reverse their view of a work that is difficult to see objectively because it has become too familiar from time spent working on it. I enjoy applying that same idea to works of art that have become so iconic and familiar they are…
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Frédéric Pillot
Though not well known here in the U.S. (and undeservedly so), Frédéric Pillot is well known in France as a creator of comics, illustrations and beloved children’s books. Pillot pushes the stylized exaggeration of his characters and environments out to the limits, and then wraps his scenes in lovingly rendered detail, atmosphere and lighting effects.…
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Frederick Sandys’ Proud Maisie drawings
Proud Maisie (3 versions), drawings by Frederick Sandys. The first two versions of this drawing are in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and share a single page, with a link to the image on green paper below the primary image. There doesn’t seem to be a separate description for the second drawing, so…
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Abe Toshiyuki
Abe Toshiyuki is a Japanese watercolor artist whose work often focuses on intimate close in views of nature, as well as more traditional longer views. He uses precise sharp edges in contrast to softer focus areas to wonderful effect, allowing his subjects to posses solidity as well as qualities of the ephemeral. I particularly enjoy…
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Moran’s Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon
Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon, Thomas Moran, oil on canvas, roughy 30 x 45″ ( 77 x 115 cm), in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art (click on image for an enlargement). There is a larger image on Wikipedia, though the color is off. I’ve taken that image and color corrected it to…