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Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Paul Sandby ink and wash drawing

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    View in Windsor Park, Paul Sandby Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over a graphite underdrawing. 13 3/16 x 20 1/4 in. (335 x 515 mm). In the Morgan Library & Museum. Click Zoom, then use Full Screen and zoom controls under image. Info at left.

  • Kevin Menck

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    Kevin Menck is a plein-air painter based in Nashville, Tennessee whose work I’ve been following for a number of years. After 15 years as a freelance illustrator, Menck transitioned into gallery painting, specifically plein air landscape painting. He has been posting his work and blogging his experiences in the field since 2007, and recently launched…

  • Jeremy Geddes

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    Jeremy Geddes is a painter and comics artist from New Zealand, now living and working in Melbourne, Australia. In his gallery work, Geddes explores space and gravity as much as light and chiaroscuro. His frequent subjects include cosmonauts, birds, and human figures, often suspended in darkness, defying gravity or apparently in violent motion crashing through…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Irving Wiles’ Russian Tea

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    Russian Tea, Irving R. Wiles On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. For more of his stunning work, along with information and links, see my post on Irving Ramsay Wiles.

  • Steve Brodner

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    New York based illustrator and caricaturist Steve Brodner has a wonderful ability to take his caricatured faces out to a remarkable degree of exaggeration, but retain not only a portrait-like feeling of the individual but a finessed and appealing character to the drawings themselves. His subjects extend from the early days of the republic to…

  • Franz Richard Unterberger

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    Franz Richard Unterberger was an Austrian painter active in the late 19th century. Though his early work featured mountains and Alpine scenes, the work for which he is best known is from his later career, and consists of landscapes that focus on architecture, — largely of locations in Italy like Venice, Naples, and the Amalfi…