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Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Alfons Mucha portrait drawing

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    Jaroslava Mucha, Alfons Mucha Link is to Wikimedia Commons. Pencil and white (presumably gouache) on toned paper, roughly 13 x 10 inches (33 x 25 cm). This lively and sensitive drawing by Czech painter, poster artist and decorative designer Alfons (Alphonse) Mucha is a portrait of his daughter, Jaroslava. The high resolution version available from…

  • Su Jian

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    Su Jian is a concept artist based in Beijing, China and working in the film industry. Beyond that, I know little. I haven’t found an official website other than a presence on ArtStation, and that has no information on projects of companies worked for. Su Jian’s illustrations are sometimes in the vein of common concept…

  • Alfred Thörne

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    When I came across the work of Swedish painter Sven Alfred Thörne recently, I was surprised that I hadn’t encountered it before, but pleased to have found another Scandinavian landscape painter to add to my list of favorites. Thörne was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied at the Royal Academy…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bartolomeo Montagna Renaissance portrait

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    Saint Justina of Padua, Bartolomeo Montagna (Bartolomeo Cincani) In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the “download or Enlarge links under the image on their site. Though this is technically a religious work, not a portrait, I think the beautifully drawn and delicately rendered face has the look of a real person,…

  • Robert Walker Macbeth

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    Robert Walker Macbeth was a Scottish painter, etcher and illustrator, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was known for his pastoral landscapes, most of them rural or genre scenes with figures in various activities, and a suggestion of narrative content. His father and younger brother were also artists. Macbeth was a…

  • Jérémy Soheylian

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    Though he sometimes works monochromatically, when I first came across the ink and watercolor architectural drawings and urban sketches of French artist Jérémy Soheylian the majority of his work at first registered to my eye as full color. It then dawned on me that they were actually remarkably effective use of simple warm and cool…