Month: September 2025
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Jourdan Truffan
Jourdan Truffan is a concept artist snd illustrator based in Sydney, Australia who works digially in Photoshop and Blender. His fresh, nicely styleized designs for both characters and environments have an appealing clarity and precision. He applies to that solid foundation a playful sense of light and shadow, giving his scenes a sense of atmosphere.…
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Eye Candy for Today: The Goldfish Bowl, Edward Perugini
The Goldfish Bowl, Edward Perugini, oil on canvas. roughly 39 x 31 in. (100 x 79 cm). Link is to the Bonham’s auction page from 2010. Click on the image on the Bonham’s page for a larger version. Bonham’s at the time lists it as only “attributed to” Perugini, but all other references to it…
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Dave Bruner (update)
I first encountered the reduction prints and wood engravings of printmaker Dave Bruner back in 2006 at a long running art even there in Philadelphia. I was delighted to run into him again at this year’s event and get a chance to come up to date on his current work. Reduction prints are multi colors…
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat
Girl with the Red Hat, Johannes Vermeer, oil on panel roughly 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Not as iconic as Girl with a Pearl Earring, so perhaps easier to see freshly, Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat is likewise a “tronie”, a…
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Wenjun Lin
Wenjun Lin is a game development artist, illustrator and comics artist based in Shanghai. There is a portfolio on Character Design Reference, and another on Art Station I don’t know specifically which projects the images are from, but most have a delightful, innocent childrens book illustration vibe and a playful anime spirit. They’re lush with…
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A few paintings from 1889
Wikimedia Commons, an offshoot of Wikipedia, is an extensive repository of media files: images, audio, video and even 3D models, to which anyone with a free account can contribute. The material must be either freely licensed or in the public domain. You may have noticed I refer to it often when providing links to works…