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  • Yutang Yang (update)

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    Yutang Yang is an artist from northeastern China who I first wrote about in 2008, and later featured as one of the seven contemporary ink artists I profiled in my article for the Spring 2014 issue of Drawing magazine. He works in dip pen and carbon based ink on paper, using hatching to create beautifully…

  • Fragonard’s Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe

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    The High Priest Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe, Jean-Honoré Fragonard Image on the Web Gallery of Art; original is in the Louvre. Uncharacteristic of the frivolity of the work for which he is best known, Fragonard has here tackled a history painting. The work was originally meant as a guide for a tapestry that…

  • Fragonard’s drawing for The Sacrifice of Coresus

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    The Sacrifice of Coresus, Jean-Honoré Fragonard Brush and brown wash, over chalk, roughly 14 x 18 inches (35 x 46 cm). In the Morgan Library and Museum. Use Zoom tab or download link. Not only has Fragonard worked out his composition, dramatic lighting and value relationships in this beautifully gestural preparatory drawing, he’s captured the…

  • Paul Scott Canavan

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    Paul Scott Canavan is lead artist for the Scottish gaming company Blazing Griffin, and also does freelance illustration and concept art. Canavan paints digitally in a way that carries a feeling of traditional painting media. His landscapes, in particular, are textural and painterly. He also does digital plein air painting (such as the two castles…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jan Davidsz de Heem still life

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    Mesa (Table), Jan Davidsz de Heem Link is to page on Wikimedia Commons, from which you can access the high-resolution file. Original is in the Prado, Madrid, but I don’t think they have an image on their website. The intricate surface of the decorative metal is of course the star here, but I also love…

  • William Hays

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    Though he also works in oil, Vermont artist William Hays found an initial diversion into reduction linocut prints to be so compelling that it is now the focus of his artistic endeavors. Reduction printing is a color printmaking technique in which a single block, in this case linoleum, is carved, printed in a color, and…