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  • Eye Candy for Today: Burne-Jones’ King Cophetua

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    King Cophetura and the Beggar Maid, Edward Coley Burne-Jones On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Tate, Britain. The Tate’s website has some background on the painting and the story it presents. There is more in an article on the painting on Wikipedia.

  • Nicole Alger

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    New York based artist Nicole Alger paints a variety of subjects, portrait, figurative, still life and landscape, and her approach varies from straightforwardly realist to colorfully interpretive. In many of her portraits and face studies, for example, she plays with backgrounds indicative of Bhuddist philosophy or even early Christian iconography, in the suggestion of halos,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Prout street scene

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    French Street with a Medieval Turret, Samuel Prout In the National Gallery of Art, DC. The National Gallery’s page says this was done in brush and watercolor, as apparently does the artist’s inscription, but I would have assumed an initial drawing in pen and brown ink. Though it exists in that fascinating boundary between drawing…

  • David Chambers

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    David Chambers is a concept and visual development artist, based in British Columbia, who works primarily in the gaming industry. His website home page acts as a portfolio slideshow, but you can also drill down into his portfolio, which is arranged by subject matter. I found his approach to environments of particular interest for the…

  • 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…