Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Louise Jopling domestic scene
Blue and White, Louise Jopling, oil on canvas, roughly 49 x 34 inches (123 x 86 cm). Link is to Wikimedia Commons; the page indicates the original is in the Liverpool Museums, but I can’t find mention of it on their site. Louise Jopling was a Victorian era painter and apparently well known, though I…
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Edgar Payne
Edgar Alwin Payne was an American painter primarily active in the early 20th century and known best for his paintings of the mountains, canyons, bluffs and buttes of the American west. He also painted other subjects. I particularly enjoy his compositions involving fishing and sailing boats, painted both in the Boston area and in France.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leonardo metalpoint drawing
Study of a woman’s hands, Leonardo da Vinci; black chalk and metalpoint on paper, roughly 8 x 6 inches (21 x 15 cm). Original is in the Royal Collection Trust in the UK; their website has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image. There is also a version on Wikimedia Commons. The drawing is…
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Wilhelm Bernatzik
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find as many images of paintings by 19th century Austrian-Hungarian painter Wilhelm Bernatzik as I would like. Those I have found, however, show an interesting and skilled painter who took occasional forays from romatic realism into stylized symbolist and Art Nouveau influences.
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Eye Candy for Today: Holman Hunt’s The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat, Willaim Holman Hunt; oil on canvas; roughly 34 x 55 inches (86 x 140cm). Link is to image file on Wikipedia, original is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool. From the Bible: book of Leviticus, which is where we get the general concept as we use the term today. For…
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Richard Thorn
While it’s not unusual for artists to transition from a career in commercial art to gallery art, English artist Richard Thorn came to painting from a career as a jazz musician. Thorn uses watercolor in a manner I particularly enjoy — lots of crisp, controlled edges balanced with softer ones and still maintaining a feeling…