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Author: cparker

  • Stefanie Lieberman

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    Stefanie Lieberman is an artist based in Philadelphia who focuses on landscape and animals. In her landscapes, Lieberman takes a loose, gestural approach to her brush work, ofetn giving her foliage in particular a lively feeling of texture. In her compositions with water, she often contrasts these textures with the smooth sheen of undisturbed surfaces.…

  • Jim Kay

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    Jim Kay is a British illustrator know for his illustrations for A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, and the pop-up book, Bugs with George McGavin, and lately — in particular — for his work on the new Illustrated Editions of the Harry Potter series. The first in that series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone:…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Pieter Claesz Peacock Pie

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    Still Life with Peacock Pie, Pieter Claesz In the National GAllery of Art, DC, with zoomable or downloadable image, also downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons. It’s interesting to compare this large (30,51inches, 77x129cm), sumptuous still life to a similar composition in the collection of the Rijksmuseum that I featured previously, Still Life with a Turkey…

  • Luigi Marchione

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    Luigi Marchione is an Italian concept artist, stage set designer and art director who brings to his work a wonderful feeling of Renaissance and Baroque art. Though he sometimes works in traditional media — such as soft pastel, charcoal and graphite powder on prepared paper — the majority of the pieces are digital painting done…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Aegidius Sadeler rhino

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    Fable of the Rhinoceros and Elephants, Aegidius Sadeler Etching, roughly 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (96x112mm), 1608. In the Rijksmuseum. Today — I am informed in a tweet from the Rijksmusem — is World Rhino Day. In celebration they point to a selection of rhino images from their collection, from which I focused on…

  • Women Painting Women, RJD Gallery 2015

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    Women Painting Women is the title and subject of a group show at the RJD Gallery in Sag Harbor, NY, that runs from October 10 to November 4, 2015. The large example images on the gallery’s own website are watermarked to an extent that renders them essentially pointless. However, there is a selection of unmarked…