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  • Artem Rogowoi

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    Ukrainian painter Artem Rogowoi works primarily in oil, often augmented with gold leaf. He also does smaller studies in gouache in which he plays with expressionistic color schemes. Rogowoi studied at the Kharkiv State Art College and the Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts. His work has been featured in numerous exhibition in Ukraine, the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Gallery of the HMS Calcutta

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    The Gallery of HMS Calcutta, James Tissot, oli in canvas, roughly 27 x 36 in (68 x 92 cm). Link os to image file page on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Tate, London. 19th century French painter James Tissot, who was unjustly often dismissed as a shallow chronicler of high society, here demonstrates a…

  • Tavík František Šimon

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    Tavík František Šimon was a printmaker and painter from what is now the Czech Republic who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His etchings, woodcuts, aquatints and mezzotints have a wonderful sense of space and air, and yet often retain the visual charm and wiry strength of line drawings.

  • Eye Candy for Today: Vigée Le Brun self portrait

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    Self portrait in a Straw Hat,, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun; oil on canvas, roughly 39 x 28 in. (99 x 70 cm); in the collection of the National Gallery, London. There is a high resolution image available from this page on Wikipedia. Vigée Le Brun was a renowned 18th centry portait painter. Her subjects…

  • Free Comic Book Day – May 6, 2023

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    Tomorrow, May 6 is Free Comic Book Day 2023. Stop by your friendly neighborhood comic book shop, who will be even friendlier than usual, to see what’s happening in comics and pick one more (depending on the shop) free comic books created by publishers just for the occasion. The shops will often have special deals,…

  • Aldo Balding

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    Aldo Balding is a British painter now living in the south of France. He paints portraits and genre scenes, both of which often contain narrative elements — suggesting a story to which we are only privy to a moment, leaving the rest to our imagination. His lighting is also often theatrically dramatic, pulling your eye…