Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Bruegel pen and ink landscape
Landscape with the Penitence of Saint Jerome, Pieter Bruegel the Elder In the National Gallery of Art, D.C, with zoomable version (also downloadable if you create a free account). There is an additional zoomable image on the Google Art Project and a smaller downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. The nominal penitent saint is probably the…
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Distance
Distance is a short (3 minute) animated film by students from the Gobelins school in Paris. It portrays a psychological mini-drama of fear within the mind of an introverted high school girl as she tries to traverse the distance between her hall locker and that of a boy she likes. Please see the page on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Watanabe Seitei ink painting
Birds of a Flowering Branch, Watanabe Seitei In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download icons below the image. Roughly 14×11 inches (36x27cm), ink and color on silk. The listing doesn’t say what kind of “color”. The white flowers look to me like opaque watercolor, but I don’t know. The…
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Ali Cavanaugh
In a process similar to traditional fresco-secco — a method of painting with water based paints on a dry plaster surface that has been moistened — St. Louis based painter Ali Cavanaugh works by applying layers of watercolor to a prepared clay ground that has been wet. The resulting images have been described as luminous…
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Pronk Still Life with Holbein Bowl, Nautilus Cup, Glass Goblet and Fruit Dish
Pronk Still Life with Holbein Bowl, Nautilus Cup, Glass Goblet and Fruit Dish, Willem Kalf Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, which also has a high-res downloadable file. “Pronk” still life means “splendid”, or…
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Ben Lo
Originally from Toronto and now based in Montreal, concept artist Ben Lo has credits that include Bioshock Infinite and a Need for Speed title. He is currently working for Bioware on a new Mass Effect title. Lo’s digital painting style ranges from quick and efficient to refined and subtle, with much attention given to variations…