Author: cparker
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Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2025!
As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve since 2005, I’ll wish Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with one of J. C. Leyendecer’s New Year’s covers for the Saturday Evening Post, in this case marking the arrival of 1925.For more Leyendecker to while away your New Year’s day, check the list of Lines…
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LearnFromMasters YouTube channel
If, like me, you enjoy YouTube videos about art and artists, you may have come across a number of slideshow style videos showcasing the art of historic painters. In many of these, if not the majority, the creator of the videos seems compelled to add motion — panning, zooming and using transitions that flip, swipe,…
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Brock Larson
Brock Larson is a contemporary American painter living in Minnesota. On his website you will find landscape and still life paintings along with portrait drawings. In his landscapes, Larson often pulls us into the shadowy depths of deep woods, while at others times leading us out onto broad fields and expanses of water. Brock Larson…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Theodor Reiffenstein castle
Weite Landschaft mit idealer rheinischer Burg (Wide landscape with an ideal Rhenish castle), Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, oil on canvas, 18 x 14 inches (45 x 36 cm) This landscape painting by the 19th century German painter is a perfect example of counterchange — the reversal of value relationships between a shape or object and the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Kay Nielsen illustration for “East of the Sun and West of the Moon”
Kay (pronounced “kigh”, rhymes with “sky”) Nielsen was a Danish illustrator — active in the early 20th century — who was known in particular for his illustrations for the Norwegian fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon. This is one example.
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William Wyld
William Wyld was a 19th century English painter who specialized in watercolor landscapes and cityscapes, as well as making etchings. Among his favored subjects were scenes of Venice and sailing ships.