Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Constance Marie Charpentier’s Melancholy
Melancholy, Constance Marie Charpentier On Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France. Charpentier is another of those fine French painters from the 18th and 19th centuries about whom we know little, likely because they were female — even though Charpentier won gold and silver medals in the Pais Salons of 1814…
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Sylvie Daigneault
Sylvie Daigneault is an illustrator based in Toronto. Her clients include Tetley Tea, The Royal Canadian Mint, Publix, American Express, Bell Canada, MTA, The National Ballet of Canada, UTF University of Toronto, Harlequin, MacMillan/McGraw-Hill and Harper Collins. Daigneault works primarily in colored pencil, with finishes sometimes modified digitally. She uses to advantage that medium’s strengths…
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Eye Candy for Today: Degas pencil drawing
Dancer Adjusting her Slipper, Edgar Degas Pencil on colored paper, 13×10 inches (33x24cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Degas did numerous studies, drawings, pastels and paintings of dancers preparing; this seemingly simple pencil drawing has always been one of my favorites. Straightforward and direct, we see Degas seeking out his model’s form and gesture,…
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Paul Cornoyer
Paul Cornoyer was an American painter who worked in the Barbizon and Impressionist styles. Born in St. Louis, he studied there at the St. Louis School of Art, as well as in Paris at the Académie Julian. He spent much of his later career in New York, where he taught, and delighted in painting street…
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Eye Candy for Today: Johannes Klinkenberg river and town scene
A View of the Groenburgwal with the Zuiderkerk, seen from the River Amstel, Amsterdam, Johannes Christiaan Karel Klinkenberg On the Elsewhere blog (for which I must issue a Timesink Warning). Also on Sotheby’s. Original is in a private collection. Another beautiful example of the genre of 19th century Dutch townscape paintings that I just love…
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Comic Book Cartography
Comic Book Cartography is a blog by John Hilgart in which he features maps, charts, diagrams, infographics and — always my favorite — cut-away views from the pages of comics past. [Via Wired]