Month: October 2025
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Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Wyeth drybrush watercolor
Noah’s Ark Study, Andrew Wyeth, drybrush watercolor on paper. Original is in the collection of the Wyeth Foundadion for American Art, I don’t know the size. Image is referenced from a page on the site of the local PBS affiliate, WHYY. The full size image is here. Starting in 2023, the Brandywine Museum of Art…
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Minna Sundberg
Minna Sundberg is a Danish comics artist and illustrator with a lively, visually charming style. In the illustrations featured in her DeviantART portfolio and the portfolio of her work on Character Design Reverences, I find a fascinating tendency to work with strategically limited palettes. Sundberg is the author and artist of a number of webcomics.…
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How The World’s Most Expensive Colors Are Made
This YouYube video from Business Insider goes into the history and making of several of the most expensive artist pigments and materials. I found the first 10 minutes particularly of interest for going into greater depth than usual in describing the mining and refinement of Lapis Lazuli, the semi-precious stone used to make the original…