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Author: cparker

  • Children’s Book Illustrations from British Library

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    As part of the huge trove of public domain images being posted on Flicker — which I reported in 2013 — the British Library has assemble a large collection of children’s book illustrations. As is often the case with these kinds of large scale image resources, best results come from a bit of patience and…

  • Elizabeth Rickert

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    Elizabeth Rickert is a New Mexico based artist who paints landscapes, water gardens, florals, fruits and birds’ nests, but in particular intimate compositions of grasses and other low-to-the-ground plants. These are rendered with sensitive detail and infused with gentle light, giving them in inviting, luminous quality. Her paintings are larger in scale than you might…

  • Illuminating Tarbell

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    “Illuminating Tarbell” is the title of an exhibition of the work of the terrific American painter Edmund Charles Tarbell that is on view at Discover Portsmouth, in Portsmouth NH until June 3, 2016. It features a concurrent exhibit of contemporary painters working in the tradition of Tarbell. There is a page with images from the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Moran’s Falls at Toltec Gorge

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    Falls at Toltec Gorge, Thomas Moran Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; 1000 Museums has version online that you can download here; original is in the Oklahoma City Museum (no collections online). When Moran turns his Turner-influenced eye to the rough textures of the American landscape, the results are usually amazing. I…

  • Charles Lee

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    Charles Lee is a visual development artist who has worked with Riot Games, Blizzard Entertainments, Sony Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Obsidian and Spark. He has a particularly deft touch with suggesting light sources within larger areas of subdued values, as in his science fiction themed cityscapes. He also uses muted value relationships in his atmospheric environments.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Roelant Roghman drawing

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    View of castle Groenewoude, Roelant Roghman Chalk, with brush on paper; roughly 14×19″ (35x49cm); in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. Roughman’s seemingly simple — but precise and deftly rendered — 17th century drawing is described on the Rijksmuseum’s site with chalk as the material and brush as the technique. I assume from the look of…