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Author: cparker

  • Jeffrey Smith (update)

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    Jeffrey Smith is a widely recognized illustrator, with a long and impressive client list, who I first wrote about back in 2007. Since then, Smith has a new and much improved website, a variety of blogs (listed below) and other accessible portfolios. Smith works in deft, fresh applications of watercolor, and his illustrations, which often…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Holyday

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    Holyday, James Tissot Sometimes listed as “The Picnic”. In the Tate Britain. Use Full Screen link under the image (or full size here). While today is not a Holyday (holiday), it is Tissot’s birthday, a nice day to welcome fall foliage and celebrate a wonderful and underrated painter.

  • Mikhail Klodt

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    Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt (sometimes “Clodt”) was a 19th century Russian landscape painter and a founding member of the Peredvizhniki (“Itinerants” or “Wanderers”), the group of Russian painters that broke away from the Academy to carry out their own traveling exhibitions. His work is not as well known here in the US as that of his…

  • 365 Postcards for Ants, Lorraine Loots

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    365 Postcards for Ants was a yearlong project, from January 1 to December 31 or 2013, in which South African artist Lorraine Loots set out to paint one miniature painting per day. Along the way, her process evolved into a kind of collaboration with visitors to her site who would “reserve” a painting, and suggest…

  • A. Wilkenfeld

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    A. wilkenfeld is an illustrator and character designer, originally from Sydney, Australia and now based in New Orleans. Aside from that, I can find little biographical information. To my eye, Wilkenfeld’s lively, fluid drawings show an admiration for the work of great caricaturists like Al Hirschfeld, along with an affection for early 20th century magazine…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Peder Mønsted forest landscape

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    Skogslandskap, Peder Mørk Mønsted On Wikimedia Commons, I don’t know the location of the original, but I know it passed through Bukowski’s Auctions in the recent past, so I assume it’s in a private collection (not mine — sigh). I think the title can be translated as “forest landscape”. I never tire of Mønsted’s beautifully…