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  • Wenjun Lin

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    Wenjun Lin is a game development artist, illustrator and comics artist based in Shanghai. There is a portfolio on Character Design Reference, and another on Art Station I don’t know specifically which projects the images are from, but most have a delightful, innocent childrens book illustration vibe and a playful anime spirit. They’re lush with…

  • A few paintings from 1889

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    Wikimedia Commons, an offshoot of Wikipedia, is an extensive repository of media files: images, audio, video and even 3D models, to which anyone with a free account can contribute. The material must be either freely licensed or in the public domain. You may have noticed I refer to it often when providing links to works…

  • Alar Iko

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    Alar Iko (AKA Alariko) is an illustrator and background artist from Spain. He works with digital painting and drawing tools, primarily in Procreate, in a style that has the character of traditional ink and watercolor. His approach is at once loose and solidly grounded in good draftsmanship. In many of his architectural subjects, he will…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Emil Carlsen’s Still life with Brass Urn

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    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…

  • Carlo Stanga

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    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,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Study of a Woman’s Head, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

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    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…