Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Girolamo dai Libri’s Madonna and Child with Saints
Madonna and Child with Saints, Girolamo dai Libri Tempera and oil on canvas; 16th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the zoom or download icons under the image. To my mind, this could be titled “Madonna and Child with Laurel Tree“, so striking is the tree’s presence, painstakingly detailed and dominating the composition.…
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Sung Choi
Sung Choi is a concept artist based in Seattle, working in the gaming and entertainment industry. His concept work is dramatically atmospheric, with subdued colors and muted values not only creating depth but mood. Choi has tuned his digital painting tools to create a very brushy, painterly effect, and uses the same characteristics in what…
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Henry John Boddington
Victorian painter Henry John Williams took his wife’s last name as Henry John Boddington to distinguish himself from the prolific Williams family of painters from which he came. Boddington, whose only formal instruction was from his father, painter Edward Williams, developed a style rich with the textures of landscape, often revealed in dramatic almost theatrical…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gerrit van Honthorst’s The Concert
The Concert, Gerrit van Honthorst In the National Gallery of Art, DC; there is also a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Like many of his northern European contemporaries, 17th century Dutch painter Gerrit van Honthorst was taken with the dramatic chiaroscuro and dynamic compositions of Caravaggio. Honrhorst, however, brought his figures into full light and…
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Tom Dickson
Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Tom Dickson lived and worked for a time in Nova Scotia, and then in British Columbia. On summer trips to Mexico, he discovered a rich source of subject matter and inspirstional culture, and he eventually moved to San Miguel de Allende, where he and his wife, painter Donna Dickson, set up…
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Ingrid Kallick
The selection of work on illustrator Ingrid Kallick’s website is not extensive, which is unfortunate, as the delightful nature of her illustrations leaves you wanting more. Imaginatively composed, nicely textural, often intricately rendered, her work is well suited to the flights of imagination integral to her fantasy subjects. Kallick combines traditional and digital media, starting…