Author: cparker
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Olivier Pron (update)
Olivier Pron is a concept artist, originally from London and now working with Method visual effects studio in Los Angeles as Supervising Art Director and Head of the Art Department. When I initially wrote about Pron in 2014, he had just started his blog, and did not have a great deal of work available online.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franz Xaver Winterhalter pencil portrait
Portrait of Baroness Gudin, née Margareth Louis Hay, Franz Xaver Winterhalter Graphite, roughly 15 x 11 (40 x 29 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this deceptively simple, sensitively realized pencil portrait, 19th century German painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter has given particular attention to nuances of value changes in the…
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Stephen Magsig (update)
Maybe it’s because I grew up next to a steel mill in Northern Delaware, or from my current wanderings in and around Philadelphia, but like many who live in the industrial northeast or upper midwest, I find a particular appeal in the industrial landscape of warehouses, factories, refineries, bridges and railways that were created during…
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Eye Candy for Today: David Cox – The Opening of the New London Bridge
The Opening of the New London Bridge, David Cox Watercolor, roughly 15 x 9 in. (38 x 24 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Yale Center for British Art. British landscape master David Cox, who I admire in particular for his watercolors,…
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Nestor Redondo
In the 1970’s the scope of style in American mainstream comic book art was suddenly expanded by the “Phillipine Invasion”, the advent of a number of highly skilled Filipino comics artists establishing themselves with the American comic book publishers. These artists, already established in the Philippines’ active comic book market, owed as much to the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Johannes Franciscus Christ ink and wash drawing
View of the Bottom Gate at the Old Port at Nijmegen, Johannes Franciscus Christ Ink and wash over a chalk underdrawing, roughly 9 x 7 in (23 x 19 cm); in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. This early 19th century drawing of the port gate of the Dutch city of Nijmegen is a beautiful example…