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  • Walter Stanford

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    Walter Stanford is a painter and illustrator based in North Carolina. Stanford works in oil, acrylic and pastel, as well as in digital painting media (I believe the example images I’ve shown here are mostly if not all traditional media). His painting and pasted subjects include landscapes with an emphasis on rocky creeks and farming,…

  • John William North

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    Victorian painter John William North was known for his landscapes in both oil and watercolor. He secured work as an illustrator at an early age, but eventually abandoned his successful career in that field to pursue landscape painting full time. He was instrumental in the creation of a new, more durable linen-based watercolor paper, and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Leonardo’s portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci

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    Ginevra de’ Benci, Leonardo da Vinci The link is to the page for the painting on the NGA site, which has a zoomable version as well as offering a link to a downloadable files, though you need to sign up for a free account to download the highest resolution version. There is also a zoomable…

  • Adilson Farias

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    Adilson Farias is a Brazillian children’s book illustrator based in Curitiba. Farias works both in watercolor and digital media, using the characteristics of both to advantage. His work in watercolor often has a loose, informal charm in the application of color. In his digital pieces, he combines precision line work with a jaunty drawing stule…

  • Adrianus Eversen

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    I don’t know if it’s an actual genre, but there is a kind of 19th century Dutch cityscape painting that I particularly enjoy. These paintings feature streets lined with older brick buildings, and are atmospheric and richly textural, a visual combination that makes for delightful eye candy. The cityscapes of Adrianus Everson are a prime…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Rackham illustration for Götterdämmerung

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    The ring upon thy hand — / … ah, be implored! / For Wotan fling it away! (from Götterdämmerung) One of the many beautiful and sensitively realized illustrations the brilliant “Golden Age” British illustrator Aurhur Rackham did of the stories from Richard Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” series of operas. From this set on Wikimedia Commons. For…