Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Emil Carlsen’s Still life with Brass Urn
Still life with Brass Urn, by Soren Emil Carlsen, oil on canvas, roughly 30 x 34 in. (76 x 86 cm). The image was sourced from a Christie’s auction in 2010, so I assume the original is now in a private collection. Another mind-bogglingly beautiful still life from the brilliant Danish painter Emil Carlsen, who…
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Carlo Stanga
Carlo Stanga is an Italian born illustrator currently living and working in Berlin. He works primarily in a loose but often precise and detailed style of line and color, using a variety of media. He plays with the conventions of line and color, sometimes using color for the lines themselves, sometimes losing the line altogether,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Study of a Woman’s Head, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Study of a Woman’s Head, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, oil on wood, roughly 18 x 16 in. (47 x 41 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. The link is to the page for this painting on the Met’s website. As I find is often the case with images posted…
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Kees Kousemaker’s Comiclopedia at Lambiek.net
Lambiek is certainly one of the oldest, if not the oldest, comic shop in the world. Located in Amsterdam, it was founded by in 1968 by Kees Kousemaker. At one level, the shop’s online presence is a webshop, a source of comics, graphic novels and related material, often hard to find, that ships worldwide. In…
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August Leu
August Wilhelm Leu was a 19th century German landscape painter who specialized in dramatic large scale scenes of the mountains in the Alps and Norway. In the detail crops in the images above, second from top and two at bottom, you can see some of the wonderful detail in these. Eat your heart out, Bob…
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Eye Candy for Today: H.J. Ford dragon illustration
The Dragon flies off with the Empress, illustration from The violet fairy book (1906) by Henry Justice Ford. Henry Justice Ford was a British illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who was noted in particular for his pen and ink illustrations of fairy stories. The link is to a page on…