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Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Pieter de Hooch interior

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    Interior with Women beside a Linen Cupboard, Pieter de Hooch In the Rijskmuseum. This is another of Pieter de Hooch’s marvelous “keyhole paintings”, in which we are not only invited to enter the painting, but to effectively pass through it — first in the form of the window behind the women, which offers a glimpse…

  • Nurö (Herve Groussin)

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    Nurö is the professional name used by gaming industry concept artist and illustrator Hervé Groussin. Groussin’s website is divided into sections for corporate, personal and published (illustration), and you can find additional examples of his work on hie deviantART gallery. Groussin applies his moody, atmospheric and viscerally textural style to both science fiction subjects and…

  • Bill Cone

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    Bill Cone is a visual development and background artist for Pixar Animation Studios, and is also a dedicated plein air pastel painter. There is often some question about whether pastel is “drawing” or “painting”. It can be either, of course (or even both simultaneously), but I think the distinction has more to do with handling…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Roslin’s Lady with the Veil

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    The Lady with the Veil, Alexander Roslin Zoomable image on Google Art Project, downloadable high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Nationalmuseum Sweden. Roslin, a Swedish Rococo portrait painter who spent much of his career in France, used his wife, pastel painter Marie-Suzanne Giroust, as his model for this enigmatic and alluringly…

  • Gemi

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    Gemi is the professional name used by a Japanese illustrator who works in watercolor (or its digital equivalent, I’m uncertain); and whose compositions often center on a lone young woman in contemplative situations. Though some of her work is of more commonplace subjects, in the stylistic vein of manga and anime, much of it is…

  • Laurent Gapaillard

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    Laurent Gapaillard is a French concept and visual development artist for the film and gaming industries. He is also noted for children’s book illustration, particularly The Yark, written by Bertrand Santini (images above, bottom four) Gapaillard has a blog, though it hasn’t been active for a couple of years, and doesn’t include much in the…