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Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: CC Curran’s Lady with a Bouquet

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    Lady with a Bouquet, (Snowballs), Charles Courtney Curran Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Birmingham Museum of Art (AL) which also has a zoomable version. Oil on panel, roughly 12 x 8 in (31 x 22 cm). American painter Charles Courtney Curran was…

  • Yaroslav Zayablov

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    Yaroslav Zayablov is a contemporary Russian landscape painter whose paintings evoke the feeling of his native countryside in a variety of seasons, weather and atmosphere. His website has an English translated version (to which I have linked). There are three galleries: Landscape, Graphics (drawings) and Sketches. When looking through the his online galleries, once you…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jan Brueghel the Elder River Landscape

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    River Landscape, Jan Brueghel the Elder In the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions on their site (larger of the two downloadable versions requires a free account). There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project and a downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. This work…

  • Lorenzo Lanfranconi

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    Lorenzo Lanfranconi is a freelance illustrator, concept artist and colorist based in Como, Italy. In many of the examples on his Artstation portfolio, he take on naturalistic subjects, but renders them with an appealing blend of texture and areas of flat color. There are usually small details that add interest and scale when you view…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Le Sidaner view of London

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    St. Paul’s from the River: Morning Sun in Winter, Henri Le Sidaner Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Google lists the original as in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, but I can’t find an image on their site. Le Sidaner shows the influence of Monet, and I…

  • Daniel Sprick

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    Originally from Arkansas, educated in Colorado and New York and currently living in Denver, Daniel Sprick is an American painter who focuses on portraits, figures and still life, and occasionally landscape. Sprick’s subjects are clearly observed, precisely drawn and rendered with finess, but to my eye, they always seem to carry with them an element…