Author: cparker
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Alex Alice
Alex Alice is a French bande dessinée (comics) author and artist whose latest work is Castle in the Stars (Amazon affiliate link), a space exploration adventure in the milieu of Victorian times, a la Jules Verne. He has also created a series of illustrations and posters of characters, spaceships, airships and scenes from his stories,…
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Waterhouse’s other Lady of Shalott
‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said The Lady of Shalott, oil on canvas, roughly 40 x 29 inches (100 x 74 cm). Link is to image on Britannica.com. The original is in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. John William Waterhouse, a late 19th century English painter often associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who preceded…
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Holman Hunt’s The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott, William Holman Hunt, oil on canvas, roughly 74 x 58 inches ( 188 x 146 cm), in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, CT. Link is to image file page on Wikipedia. In Alfred Tennyson’s early 19th century poem of the same name, in a reference to the Arthurian…
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Eye Candy for Today: Francis Hopkinson Smith’s In the Woods
In the Woods, Francis Hopkinson Smith, watercolor and gouache on board, roughly 26 x 16″ ( 67 x 41 cm); in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Smith was an American painter, author and engineer, whose accomplishments included the design and engineering for the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. In…
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The Artist’s Guide to Sketching
Most of us, artists or not, have some idea of what sketching is. Sketching is a term associated with quickly realized, often rough and “unfinished” drawings (or paintings) that are meant to catch the essence of something without any unnecessary frills. That simplistic explanation, however, doesn’t convey the unexpected effects of a regular sketching practice:…