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Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Richard Wilson chalk drawing

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    The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi, Richard Wilson On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art. Noted 18th century landscape painter Richard Wilson, who spent much of his time in Italy, gives us a beautifully direct observation of a tree at…

  • ImageS Magazine 13 released

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    Back in May of this year, I wrote about the effort to publish The Vadeboncoeur Collection of ImageS #13. Long time publisher and classic illustration enthusiast Jim Vadeboncoeur was looking to KickStarter to raise the funds to publish the the ultimate issue of his 13 year labor of love, with a fantastic selection of classic…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Charlemont’s Moorish Chief

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    The Moorish Chief, Eduard Charlemont On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There is the commonly encountered color discrepancy between the Google Art Project version and the Philadelphia Museum’s online version. In this case, I think the museum got it right, and the Google…

  • Ken Knight

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    Ken Knight is an Australian plein air painter who paints with superb economy, rich color and a beautifully textural surface, for which the word “painterly” seems inadequate. Though it’s difficult to see in small reproductions, in larger images, his brush marks flow, scrape, jitter and dash across the surface — defining forms, carving out depth…

  • Clint Cearley

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    Clint Cearley is a freelance illustrator based in Fort Worth, Texas who trained in traditional media, but now works digitally. His website showcases his work for projects like Magic: The Gathering for Wizards of the Coast and Legend of the Cryptids for Applibot, as well as personal projects. Cearley sometimes utilizes a format often found…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Eckersberg’s view through arches of the Colosseum

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    A View through Three Arches of the Third Storey of the Colosseum, C.W. Eckersberg On Google Art Project; downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons. The original is in the Statens Museum for Kunst, which has a very large, but over saturated, downloadable file of the image. While in Rome in the early 19th century, Eckersberg…