Author: cparker
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Odile Richer
Canadian painter Odile Richer takes a refined realist approach to her compositions of faces and figures. The often complex backgrounds against which she places her models, and the clothing in which she poses them, offer a dense variety of textures, shapes and value relationships that contrast with the faces of the models themselves. Often there…
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Eye Candy for Today: Marten van Valckenborch Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel, Marten van Valckenborch the Elder The link is to a zoomable version of the image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden State Art Museums. Flemish Renaissance painter Marten van Valckenborch painted a number of complex compositions…
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Denise Dumont
Denise Dumont is a Delaware based artist who applies her fresh, painterly approach to urban, rural and particularly coastal scenes of Delaware, Maryland and New England. I enjoy her scenes of dune paths and vegetation, in which she plays with effects of shadow, light and texture. She finds similar characteristics in the portrayal of snow…
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Chris Malbon
Chris Malbon is a UK based illustrator and designer who works in both traditional and digital media. He has done work for a number of agencies and clients including work for Sony, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Nike and MTV. Malbon’s approach varies with his project, but is often vibrant with texture and color. He sometimes does complex…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jacob van Walscapelle Still Life with Fruit
Still Life with Fruit, Jacob van Walscapelle Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has zoomable and downloadable versions of the image. Compared to some of Van Walscapelle’s more elaborate 17th century still life paintings, this…
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Inktober
Inktober started as a challenge illustrator and cartoonist Jake Parker set himself in October of 2009, to draw 31 ink drawings in 31 days. The goal, as in any exercise of this sort, was to get better end develop a more consistent working practice. He repeated the idea the next year, promoting the notion that…