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Author: cparker

  • G Liulian

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    G Liulian is a concept artist based in Shanghai, China. Aside from that I have found little biographical information. He focuses on environments and architectural designs, from individual structures to grand vistas of cities and mountains. His Artstation portfolio has examples of his work in styles that are sometimes straightforward, sometimes stylized — their sense…

  • Stan Miller

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    Spokane Washington based painter Stan Miller works in both watercolor and egg tempera, taking as his subjects portraits, landscapes, and in particular, scenes of Venice. The play of light across textural surfaces plays a key role in all of his compositions, whether revealing the turn of form in a face and head, illuminating the textures…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait of Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne

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    Portrait of Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Graphite pencil on paper, roughly 17×12 inches (43×29 cm). Original is in the Morgan Library and Museum. Here is another of Ingres’s wonderful pencil portraits, with his trademark combination of exacting portraiture, and loose, almost casual rendering of the figure. The Morgan Library’s page offers both a zoomable and…

  • Leszek Kostuj

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    Polish artist Leszek Kostuj works in traditional media like acrylic and oil, as well as in drawing and digital art. His flights of imagination are often intricately detailed, layered with overlays of faces and eyes, and arranged in waves of cool colors laced with warmer accents. Kostuj’s subjects, which often include stylized birds, fish and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: George Roth Landscape

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    View in the Bentheim Forest, George Andries Roth Link is to original in the Rijksmusem, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions (with free Rijksstudio account); additional downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. In this wonderful 19th century landscape, a shaft of late afternoon light slices through a break in a German forest, illuminating some objects,…

  • Mars Huang (B6 Drawing Man)

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    Mars Huang is an artist based in Japan (I think — most of the pieces are labeled as scenes from Japan and Taiwan). Though he signs his work “Mars”, his Tumblr blog credits him only as “B6 Drawing man”; it wasn’t until I followed a link to one of his process videos on Vimeo, that…