Author: cparker
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Phil Sandusky (update)
Phil Sandusky is a New Orleans based painter who I have featured previously on Lines and Colors. I checked back recently to see that not only has he added recent work to his website, but a new series of prints as well. Sandusky’s plein air paintings have an appealingly informal, sketch-like feeling, due largely I…
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Ian Chiew
Originally from Malaysia, Ian Jun Wei Chiew studied here in the U.S. at Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and is currently working at Microsoft Turn 10 Studios. Chiew is adept at representing the the effects of both light and atmosphere, and I particularly enjoy those pieces in which he uses both together. His…
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Eye Candy for Today: Lofty Mount Lu, by Shen Zhou
Lofty Mount Lu, Shen Zhou On Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, Original is in the National Palace Museum. Ink on paper, 76 x 36 inches (194 x 98 cm). According to the accompanying description on GAP, the artist painted this to mark the 70th birthday of his teacher, in a compositional approach…
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Julio Reyes
Working in oil, tempera and graphite, California artist Julio Reyes achieves a delicate balance between visceral realism and etherial concept. In a solo exhibition titled “Vessels” that is on view at Arcadia Contemporary in NYC from tomorrow, November 13 through November 30, 2014, Reyes visits repeated themes of contemplative figures amid metallic balloons, perhaps suggestive…
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Eye Candy for Today: Abraham Mignon still life
Still Life with Fruit and a Cup on Cock’s Legs, Abraham Mignon In the Rijksmuseum. Ostensibly a still life, Mignon’s not-so-still composition is actually teeming with insect, arachnid and mollusk life, in addition to the beautifully rendered plant forms and man made objects — not to mention the cock’s leg base for the decorative cup…
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Scott Pollack
Editorial illustrator Scott Pollack works in a rendered watercolor cartoon style, and is noted in particular for his covers for Barron’s magazine, for which he (somehow) keeps coming up with fresh takes on the iconic bull and bear symbols of Wall Street’s manic swings. [Via The iSpot]