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Author: cparker

  • Larry Roibal’s six years of newspaper sketches

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    For the past six years, illustrator Larry Roibal has been sketching on the pages of his morning newspaper — drawing portraits of politicians, world leaders, entertainers, sports figures and other newsworthy individuals directly on sections of newspaper articles about them, and then publishing the sketches to his blog. Roibal has collected all 1550 of his…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Johansen’s kitchen interior

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    Kitchen interior. The artist’s wife arranging flowers, Viggo Johansen On Google Art Project. High resolution downloadable version available on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Skagins Museum, Denmark. Sometimes the underappreciated genre of room interiors encompasses the best qualities of still life and figurative works.

  • Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches

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    Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches (Zoological atlas or collection of 100 plates), by Paul Gervais, is a volume meant to accompany a large set of books on Zoology. Published in France in 1844, the book’s 100 plates feature over 200 illustrations by various artists of a number of different species, both extant…

  • Paul Sullivan

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    Concept artist and character designer Paul Sullivan has managed to create a particularly appealing balance between detailed rendering and a jaunty, cartoon-like drawing style — giving his digital paintings a lighthearted flavor without losing the drama often characteristic of concept art. Projects he has worked on include: The Book of Life, Megamind, Turkeys, Afro Samurai,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Holman-Hunt’s Isabella

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    Isabella and the Pot of Basil, William Holman Hunt (large version) Image from Get Into New Castle. Original is in the Liang Art Gallery, which doesn’t have its collection online. This article on The Journal shows the size of the original. This is the larger of two versions painted by Holman-Hunt. The smaller one, which…

  • Peter Malone

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    Peter Malone is an illustrator from the U.K. who works in watercolor and gouache. His clients include Chronicle Books, Penguin Putnam, Knopf, Pavilion, Random House, Harper Collins, The New Yorker, and Decca. Malone’s work has a sensually textural quality, in which seemingly flat areas of color are made textural by his application of paint. He…