Author: cparker
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Rudy Siswanto (update)
Rudy Siswanto is an Illustration Craft Lead at Riotgames; which basically means he leads a team of illustrators and concept designers who help craft the look and feel of particular games. I’m not a gamer, so I don’t recognize the games for which these images were created, but many of them involve animal characters that…
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Eye Candy for Today: William McCloskey still life
Apples in a Basket, William Joseph McCloskey; oil on canvas; roughly 8 x 18 inches (20 x 46 cm). Link is to Wikimedia Commons. The original is in a private collection. This still life by American painter William Joseph McCloskey — who was active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries — is much…
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Sydney Long
Sydney Long was an Australian painter and printmaker whose style was influenced by the Australian Heidelberg school, French Barbizon school plein air, Symbolism and Art Nouveau.
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Eye Candy for Today: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard self portrait with students
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard; oil on canvas, roughly 83 x 59 inches (210 x 151 cm). Link is to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has the original in its collection and offers zoomable and downloadable images. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was one of only four…
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Jarosław Jaśnikowski
Jarosław Jaśnikowski is a Polish artist working in the vein of magic realism/neo-surrealism whose work carries the influence of the original Surrealists as well as their artistic descendants. In particular, you can see his admiration for the work of Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí and contemporary steampunk fantasy art. The latter infuence often takes the form…
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Eye Candy for Today: Raphael figure studies
Nude Studies, Raphael, red chalk and metalpoint, roughy 16 x 11 in. (40 x 28 cm); link is to zoomable images on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. original is in the Albertina, Vienna. Raphael is considered to be one of the greatest draftsmen in history, and this relatively well known drawing of…