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  • Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt’s Self-portrait with Two Circles

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    Self-portrait with Two Circles, Rembrandt We don’t have access on the web to an image at the level of high resolution available for the Rembrandt self-portrait at the age of 53 that I wrote about a few days ago, but we can see enough to appreciate more of the master’s superb painting skills. Rembrandt was…

  • Stephanie Hans

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    French illustrator and comics artist Stephanie Hans is known in particular for her painted style comics covers and interior panel illustrations. She excels at dynamic comics covers, many for American titles, that involve women characters in forceful or emotional roles. Her website is in French, but it’s easy enough to navigate for for those who…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Grimshaw’s Stapleton Park

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    Stapleton Park near Pontefract Sun, John Atkinson Grimshaw On WikiArt. The original is in a private collection. Grimshaw loved to do these scenes of softly lit Autumn evenings with a lone figure, usually a woman seen from behind, walking down an empty stretch of road. See also my previous Eye Candy post of Grimwhaw’s Evening…

  • Wayne Haag

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    Wayne Haag is an Australian matte painter and illustrator whose film credits include The Fifth Element, Lord of the Rings, The Wolverine, Maze Runner and Gods of Egypt, as well as the television series Farscape. Haag works both in digital and traditional media, but prefers when possible to paint science fiction subjects in oil. As…

  • New Draw Mix Paint painting instruction course

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    As I reported in 2013, well regarded painter Mark Carder, who some years ago created a specific instruction method for those learning to paint, had put much of his former course into a series of new videos and made them freely available on his site Draw Mix Paint. Carder has recently taken those videos, added…

  • Edward Kinsella

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    Edward Kinsella III is a St. Louis based illustrator whose client list includes The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Boston Globe, Wired, Washington Post, Simon and Schuster, and Penguin, among others. His approach to his subjects, though sometimes straightforward, often includes a narrative twist. His visual…