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Author: cparker

  • Niroot Puttapipat (himmapaan)

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    Niroot Puttapipat is a London-based illustrator who uses the handle “Himmapaan”. His work shows his admiration for Golden Age illustrators like Arthur Rackham, Howard Pyle and Edmund Dulac, as well as natural history and paleontological greats like Charles R. Knight. Puttapipat works with a nice balance between detailed rendering and graphic shapes, particular in his…

  • Mick McGinty (update 2014)

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    I’m delighted to say that after a hiatus of three years, painter/blogger/illustrator Mick McGinty is back to posting his small paintings on his blog Twice a Week, and offering them at auction. Presumably, McGitnty has been busy in his other role as an illustrator, but it’s great to see him once again posting his plain…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Carlos Reis Plus de Vin

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    Plus de Vin, Carlos Reis On Google Art Project; downloadable large file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Dionísio Pinheiro And Alice Cardoso Pinheiro Foundation. In this loosely rendered and fascinatingly dark composition, it’s evident that the wine was more in demand than the fruit.

  • Joseph Todorovitch

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    Joseph Todorovitch is a California painter who works primarily with figurative subjects, though these often include elements of interiors, still life or landscape. Todorovitch has a refined, restrained approach to value and color, as well as a subtle sense of the use of edges; elements that together give his paintings both a quiet power and…

  • Kendyll Hillegas

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    There is something direct, un-fussed with and visually charming about the approach Boston based illustrator and artist Kendyll Hillegas takes in her representations of commonplace objects, most notably food items. Hillegas works in a combination of pencil, watercolor pencil, colored pencil and gouache, as she describes in this post and video from her Tumblog. Her…

  • Colin Page (update 2014)

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    Maine based painter Colin page, who I wrote about back in 2007 and 2008, paints crisp, bright landscapes and still life, with a painterly touch and often a high-chroma palette. His paintings of Maine’s rocky coast, small harbors and the surrounding landscape are set in strongly geometric compositions, which you can choose to read either…