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  • Eye Candy for Today: Gaston La Touche’s Joyous Festival

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    The Joyous Festival, Gaston La Touche Link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Dixon Gallery and Gardens (no images). In his subject matter and intention, late 19th century French painter Gaston La Touche was more influenced by the Rococo style of the 18th…

  • Kathryn Rathke (update)

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    Kathryn Rathke is a Seattle based illustrator who I first wrote about in 2010. Since then, she has continued to fill out her portfolio with her delightfully calligraphic digital “ink” drawings of figures and faces — some familiar, some less so — but all brimming with personality and character. Her clients include Vanity Fair, The…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh’s painted copy of Hiroshige print

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    Bridge in the rain: after Hiroshige, Vincent van Gogh. Zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikipedia; original is in the Van Gogh Museum. Sudden shower over Shin-Ohashi bridge and Atake, Utagawa Hiroshige; file on Wikipedia. About mid-way through his all too short career, Vincent van Gogh, like many of the French Impressionists…

  • Bill Vrscak

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    Bill Vrscak is a watercolor painter and illustrator based in the Pittsburgh, PA area. He has a wonderfully appealing combination of solid draftsmanship and crisp but free application of color. I particularly enjoy his paintings that incorporate large areas of open space, which he expertly uses to guide your eye through his composition. On his…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Harriet Backer interior

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    Blue Interior, Harriet Backer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikipedia, original is in the The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; the Norwegan online DigitaltMuseum also has a zoomable image. Norwegan painter Harriet Backer, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was…

  • Bayard Wu

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    Bayard Wu is a concept artist and illustrator based in Shenzhen, China. He works in the fantasy genre, creating scenes with dragons, monsters and warriors. His dragons, in particular, are rendered with nicely tactile textural characteristics, emphasized by dramatic lighting and muted color palettes. He also places his scenes in atmospheric backgrounds, with suggestions of…