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Author: cparker

  • Anders Andersen-Lundby

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    19th century Danish painter Anders Andersen-Lundby was known for his serene, atmospheric winter landscapes, often cast in the muted light of early evening.

  • Jason Norton

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    Jason Norton is a Visual development artist based in California, who works in the gaming industry. Though there isn’t yet a great deal of work on his current or former blogs, there is enough of his sharp, lively style to leave me looking forward to more. [Via Concept Art World]

  • Eye Candy for Today: Hans Hoffmann’s hare

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    A Hare in the Forest, Hans Hoffmann On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file (21mb) on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum, which has some background on the painting. Interesting to compare this oil painting by Hoffmann to Durer’s famous watercolor/gouache study of a hare, on which this, and Hoffmann’s own watercolor/gouache study…

  • Greg Budwine

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    Greg Budwine is an illustrator and painter from Texas, whose gallery paintings evoke a sense of contemplative stillness. Working in acrylic, Budwine often chooses deceptively simple subjects, such as a single leaf, from which he constructs sophisticated statements. In many of his pieces, the presumably flat “background”, rich with texture and vibrant color, is as…

  • B. Kliban cartoons on the web

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    Much to my delight, and considerable surprise, GoComics, the online repository of newspaper comics from both Universal and United Media syndicates, has been placing online the wonderfully off-kilter and reality-warping cartoons of B. Kliban. If you’re not familiar with Kliban, it’s worth noting that The Far Side’s Gary Larson, Bizzarro’s Dan Piraro, the New Yorker’s…

  • Frank Cadogan Cowper

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    British painter and illustrator Frank Cadogan Cowper was born a bit late to have been a Pre-Raphaelite painter, but like his contemporaries Henry Payne and Byam Shaw, he took to their style and subject matter so strongly as to be known as a Neo-Pre-Raphaelite (it that’s not an inherently self-contradictory term). Cowper’s work fell into…