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Author: cparker

  • Patrick Saunders

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    Often when I feature a contemporary artist, I start by pointing out their geographic region, but plein air painter Patrick Saunder’s location might best be described as “America”, as he and his wife, photographer Kimberly Saunders, travel across the U.S. with an Airstream trailer, following the plein air circuit or going where the spirit takes…

  • Anton Fadeev

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    Anton Fadeev is a concept artist based in Sochi, Russia, whose focus is on environments. Fadeev works with an unusually bright high-chroma palette and complementary color schemes, that give his work an immediate appeal. He sets a nice balance between naturalistic textures and pleasingly graphic rendering with lots of areas of flat color. Much of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Portrait of Maria Mancini, Jacob Voet

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    Portrait of Maria Mancini, Duchess of Bouillon, Jacob Ferdinand Voet In the Rijksmuseum; English language page for the work here. There is a zoom icon under the image. The download link requires a free Rijksstudio account (worth signing up for to my mind). There is also a downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Apparently, cautious historians…

  • Hugo Mühlig

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    Hugo Mühlig was a German painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Both his father and his uncle were landscape painters. After initial study with his father, Mühlig studied painting in the tradition of academic realism at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, but he eventually moved to a more impressionist influenced…

  • James Gurney: Flower Painting in the Wild

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    Flower Painting in the Wild is the latest full length (hour-long) instructional video from author, illustrator and plein air painter James Gurney. As Gurney points out in the introduction, the approach to painting flowers he takes here is different than the usual flower arrangement in a vase common to still life or the traditional garden…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Emil Carlsen Still life with roses and mandolin

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    Still life with roses and mandolin, Emil Carlsen Another beautiful still life by turn of the century Danish-American master Emil Carlsen. This is from the Emil Carlsen Archives, larger image here. The Emil Carlsen Archives is a terrific resource, but I haven’t figured out their thinking in terms of image display. If you click on…