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  • Isaac Orloff

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    Isaac Orloff is a visual development artist and illustrator based in the San Francisco area, and currently working with Storm 8. Orloff has range of stye that nicely mixes painterly effects with more graphic rendering, color with monochrome and cartoony with more fully realized. His website galleries (accessed from a pop-out under “Work”) include Color…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Waterhouse’s Lady of Shalott

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    The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse Original is in the Tate, Britain. There is a high-resolution zoomable image on the Google Art Project, and a downloadable version of that file on Wikimedia Commons. I almost hesitated to feature this image; Waterhouse’s interpretation of the scene from Tennyson’s poem is so commonly reproduced, it’s almost…

  • Benjamin West’s Ben Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky

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    Ben Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, Benjamin West Here in the U.S., we celebrate July 4 as “Independence Day”, marking the time in the late 18th century when our land transitioned from being a wholly owned subsidiary of the British East India Company to a more fairly divided property co-owned by a number of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jeanna Bauck’s portrait of Bertha Wegmann painting a portrait

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    The Danish Artist Bertha Wegmann Painting a Portrait, Jeanna Bauck On Google Art Project. High resolution downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Nationalmuseum Sweden. Swedish Artist Jeanna Bauck (about whom there is frustratingly little on the web) painted her friend, fellow artist and studio-mate Bertha Wegmann in the act of painting a…

  • Marc Dalessio (update)

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    Marc Dalessio is an American painter, now living in Croatia, who I first profiled back in 2009, at the recommendation of British painter Julian Merrow-Smith. Dalessio lived in Florence for 20 years, and during that time studied at Charles H. Cecil Studios, and atelier that traces its heritage to the École Des Beaux-Arts teachings of…

  • Marianne North

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    I really enjoy botanical art; at its best it combines some of the best characteristics of landscape and still life. Too often, however, botanical artists seem to feel that they must restrain themselves to timidly rendered watercolors, almost devoid of individual artistic expression, lest their efforts be considered less than scientific (how different from scientific…