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  • Bill Sanderson

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    Bill Sanderson is a freelance illustrator with a long career in editorial and comercial illustration as well as bok 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…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Streeton’s Australia Felix

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    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…

  • New Pochade Boxes Special Featured Article

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    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…

  • N.C. Wyeth’s Independence Day

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    Independence Day (At Concord Bridge), N.C. Wyeth, oil on canvas, 33 x 30 in. (85 x 77 cm), Image is from a Sotheby’s auction in 2021. (Click on the image twice to get the larger version.) Presumably the original is in a privete collection. The great American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth, like his teacher…

  • John Mattos (update)

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    John Mattos is an award winning illustrator with an impressive client list, based in California, who I first featured back in 2008. He works in a beautiful Art Deco influenced style that takes advantage of the crispness and smooth areas of gradients made possible by vector art. His striking compositional sensibility has produced a number…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Godward’s Under the Blossom…

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    Under the Blossom that Hangs on the Bough, John Willian Godward, oil on canvas, 24 x 32 in. (61 x 81 cm). Link is to file page on Wikimedia Commons, original is in a private collection. Neo-Classical Victorian painter John William Godward was known for his portrayals of beautifully dressed women lounging amid idyllic classical…