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  • Danielle Richard

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    Danielle Richard is an artist from Quebec, Canada who works in oil, acrylic and pastel. Her subjects are primarily young women in pastoral scenes, along shorelines or in idyllic views of small boats or canoes on lakes. Though there isn’t an overt similarity, her work reminds me of the sensibilities of some of the Pre-Raphaelite…

  • Luigi (Gigi) Cavenago

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    Luigi Cavenago (also Gigi Cavenago or GigiCave) is an italian comics artist based in Milan. He is best known for his work on the supernatural detective series Dylan Dog, for which he did cover illustrations as well as interior art. Cavenago has a forceful, graphic style, contrasting blocks of color with areas of detail and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Frederic Edwin Church oil sketch

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    Drawing, in the New England woods, 1855-65; Frederic Edwin Church Oil on paperboard, roughly 13 x 9 inches ( 33 x 23 cm); in the Cooper Hewitt Collection of the Smithsonian Design Museum. Interestingly, the museum has posted two images of this work, the one above, top, which I’ll call the “cool” version, and the…

  • Georges de Feure

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    Born Georges Joseph van Sluÿters, to a Dutch father and a Belgian mother, Georges de Feure was a French painter, graphic artist and designer who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though originally aligned with the Symbolist movement, much of his work was in the style of Art Nouveau — prints,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt portrait etching

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    Portrait of Abraham Francen, Apothecary; Rembrandt Harmenz. van Rijn Etching and drypoint; roughly 6 x 8 inches (15 x 20 cm); In the collection of the Rijksmuseum. Rembrandt was an absolute master of the medium of etching and drypoint — in my opinion, the greatest in the history of art. He is most noted for…

  • Phil Dean

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    Phil Dean is a British urban sketcher, who also goes by the handle “Shoreditch Sketcher” after the neighborhood in East London where he lives. Dean avidly sketches the landmarks, streets and byways of London, both historic and modern, as well as documenting his travels to other cities. His style is a nice balance of loose…