Author: cparker
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John Singer Sargent’s portrait drawings
John Singer Sargent, one of the best portrait painters of the 19th century, eventually tired of his role as a society portrait painter. In his later career he greatly reduced the number of formal portrait commissions he accepted, preferring to travel and pursue his own on location watercolors. However, he continued portraiture in a different…
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Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Streeton’s Railway Station
The Railway Station, Redfern; Arthur Streeton Link is to zoomable images on Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The more I see of Streeton’s work, particularly in high-resolution detail, the more impressed I am — rich, subtle color, lively brush marks, beautiful…
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Joseph Barbaccia
In a process that combines elements of painting, mosaics and sculpture — and perhaps bears some relation to the image making process known as quilling (see my post on Yulia Brodskaya) — Washington, DC-based illustrator and designer Joseph Barbaccia creates his illustrations with colored strands of polymer clay. Working from pencil sketches, Barbaccia create an…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fragonard’s Progress of Love: The Meeting
The Progress of Love: The Meeting, Jean-Honoré Fragonard Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; high resolution downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Frick Collection. This was part of a series of four large paintings depicting four stages of love. All four, along with several smaller canvasses, are now in…
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Laura Quinn
Laura Quinn is a UK artist who focuses on wildlife art, portraits and pet portraits. She works in Alkyd, a medium closely related to oil, but with a fast drying synthetic resin as the binder instead of linseed oil. Her approach pays particular attention to the textural qualities of her subjects. Many of her pet…
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Zac Retz
Zac Retz is an illustrator, color artist and character designer for film, based in Rochester, NY. Though you will find a few color guides and model sheets, most of the work on Retz’s blog and website appear to be personal digital sketches, sometimes sketched from life, but more often flights of fancy. In his personal…