Month: July 2026
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Eye Candy for Today: Pierre Guillemet portrait
Portrait of a Lady of the Court Playing the Tambourine, Pierre Désiré Guillemet, oil on canvas, 39×31 in. ( 96 x 79 cm), link is to Google Art Project, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. French painter Pierre Désiré Guillemet was known for his paintings in the Orientalist style. Like many paintings in that genre, there…
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New Plein Air Easels and Systems Special Featured Article
In the past I’ve done several articles on pochade boxes and other painting systems. I’ve tried to follow up with update posts as the things change, but I finally realized the usual post format wasn’t ideal for this. So I’ve created a couple of separate permanent pages, rather than temporary posts, that consolidate what I’ve…
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Eye Candy for Today: Childe Hassam’s Water Garden
Water Garden, Childe Hassam, oil on canvas, 24 x 36″ (61 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Matropolitan Museum of Art. The Met doesn’t provide large version of this image; I found one on masterapollon.com, a site that sells reproductions, from this page. American Impressionism took many forms, Hassam is here using the…
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Bill Sanderson
Bill Sanderson is a freelance illustrator with a long career in editorial and comercial illustration as well as book publishing. Sanderson works in the fascinating method of scratchboard, in which a specially prepared board is coated with ink, and the image is created by scratching white areas out of the ink with sharp tools. While…
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Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Streeton’s Australia Felix
Australia Felix, Arthur Streeton, oil on canvas, 35 x 59 in. (90 x 151 cm), link is to Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Australia Felix is Latin for “dortunate Australia”, referring to fertils plains in Western Australia. Brilliant Australian painter Author Streeton, who…
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New Pochade Boxes Special Featured Article
In the past I’ve done several articles on pochade boxes and other painting systems. I’ve tried over time to follow up with update articles as the market changes, but I finally realized the usual post format wasn’t ideal for this. So I’ve created a separate permanent page, rather than a temporary post, that consolidates what…