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  • Jean-Baptiste Monge (update 2016)

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    Jean-Baptiste Monge is an illustrator, concept artist and character designer who I have featured previously on Lines and Colors. Monge combines superb draftsmanship, sensitive textural rendering, and a keen appreciation of color and value in his beautifully realized character creations — in particular his delightful gnomes, goblins, trolls and other “faerie folk”. Monge has an…

  • Grigoriy Myasoyedov

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    Grigoriy Grigorievich Myasoyedov was a founding member of the group of 19th century Russian painters know as the Peredvizhniki, who rejected the formalities of the Impreial Academy of the Arts in favor of traveling exhibitions. Unfortunately, he is not as well known outside of Russia as his more famous counterparts, and information and examples of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tarbell’s In the Orchard

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    In the Orchard, Edmund Charles Tarbell Link is to large, downloadable file on Wikipedia; original is in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. Apparently, Edmund Tarbell — one of most noted of the painters classified as “American Impressionists” — liked to say that he wasn’t particularly influenced by the French Impressionist painters…

  • Free Comic Book Day, 2016

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    Today, May 7, is Free Comic Book Day, 2016! Participating comic book shops will be giving away a selection of special promotional comic books, designed to introduce new readers both to those individual titles and to the fun of reading comics in general. Find a local participating shop by zip code on this Store Locator.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Aelbert Cuyp chalk drawing

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    View of the Groote Kerk in Dordrecht from the River Maas, Aelbert Cuyp Black and brown chalks, green and gray washes, roughly 7 x 14 inches (18 x 36 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art With simple lines and deft applications of tone — in only a few levels of value…

  • Robert Sampson

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    Originally from New York, Robert Sampson is a painter now based here in Philadelphia, where he portrays the city’s overpasses, rail bridges, streets and walls in strong, marvelously geometric compositions. He enlists shadows, street markings and pass-throughs in building his scenes, as well as pedestrians, who can sometimes be seen in groups as semi-abstract shapes.…