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  • Titus Lunter

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    Titus Lunter is a concept artist for the gaming industry. His credits include Tom Clancy’s The Division, Forza Horizon 2, Killzone: Mercenary, Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons, Fifth Edition. Lunter appears to focus on environments, and is particularly adept at casting them in dark, moody tones, while still retaining their character as stone,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Böcklin’s Odysseus and Polyphemus

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    Odysseus and Polyphemus, Arnold Böcklin Link is to zoomable file on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The file on Wikimedia, though originally from the Sotheby’s sale to the museum in 2012, seems over-saturated in reds. Not having had the pleasure of seeing the…

  • A Revolution of the Palette at Norton Simon

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    Though it had been slowing expanding over the centuries, the range of paint colors available to artists increased most dramatically in the 19th century, when a number of new synthetic pigments began to come into production, partly as a result of the industrial revolution. Prior to that, new color discoveries were few and scattered, and…

  • Seth Havercamp

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    Virginia based artist Seth Havercamp studied at The Cleveland Institute of Art, the Memphis College of Art and Carson-Newman College. He continued his study with Robert Liberace at the Art League and Nelson Shanks at Studio Incamminati. Havercamp concentrates on figures, portraits and still life. In the latter, he takes a fascinatingly textural approach that…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Hassam’s Fifth Avenue flags

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    Rainy Day, Fifth Avenue, and Flags, Fifth Avenue; Childe Hassam First link is to Princeton University Art Museum, which has the original oil in its collection (there is also a version on Wikimdeia Commons); the second link is to Wikimedia Commons; I don’t know the location of the original watercolor. Today is Veterans Day here…

  • Artem “Rhads” Chebokha

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    Most of us have at some point enjoyed laying back and watching cloud formations in which it is easy to see shapes that look like ships, dogs, hills, oceans, dragons and more. Artem Chebokha — who also goes by the handle, “Rhads” — is a digital artist based in Omsk, Russian Federation. Chebokha has taken…