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  • Kirsten Zirngibl

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    Kirsten Zirngibl is a concept artist and illustrator based in San Diego. Zirngibl’s subjects can involve both technological and biological forms, in either case often intricately rendered. She often makes interesting use of light sources, contrasting bright sources with darkly portrayed environments that allow the viewer to project their imagination into them. Her website,

  • Simon Addyman

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    Originally from England, Simon Addyman is a landscape painter now living and working in California. Addyman walks a line between suggestion and representation, and apparently feels quite comfortable on either side. His textural, often brusquely applied brush marks fade and weave into one another, creating movement and coalescing into the forms of his subjects as…

  • Anna Mason

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    Anna Mason is an English botanical illustrator and watercolor artist. She often works at a relatively large scale, and her paintings have an appealing blend of detail, texture and color. Mason is self-taught, and only 18 months after beginning botanical painting, won a Royal Horticulture Society medal for botanical arts for a sequence of 20…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Holbein’s portrait of Thomas More

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    Portrait of Sir Thomas More (painting); Sir Thomas More (drawing), Hans Holbein the Younger Links are to zoomable versions on the Google Art Project. The painting is in the Frick Collection, which also has a zoomable version, downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons; the drawing is in the Royal Collection Trust, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons.…

  • Vilhelm Hammershøi

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    If I were to look up “muted palette” in my mental art dictionary, the definition would be a painting by Vilhelm Hammershøi. The Danish painter, active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries, was noted for his enigmatic, poetic interiors — sometimes empty, but frequently occupied by a lone figure. This figure was often…

  • Eye Candy for Today: J.C. Leyendecker Pilgrim and Football Player illustration

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    Pilgrim and Football Player, cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, November 24, 1928, J. C. Leyendecker This is on the website of the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies. The page has fascinating information both about the origins of the association of American Football with the holiday of Thanksgiving, and about…