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  • Draw Mix Paint

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    Mark Carder, the well regarded painter and portraitist who I profiled in a previous post, at one point participated in and lent his name to a series of instructional painting videos known as “The Carder Method”. These sold for over $100, and were for a time heavily promoted. Carder is no longer associated with the…

  • Mark Carder

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    Mark Carder is a portrait painter who is known for his precise but naturalistic portraits, including commissioned portraits of two US presidents and other officials. He also paints still life, animals and landscape. His web presence is unfortunately limited to about a dozen examples of his work and a very brief bio. Carder is perhaps…

  • Impressionist bridges

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    No — it’s not the subject of a real-world exhibit somewhere, though that might be nice — just a thought that occurred to me while looking through some images of Impressionist paintings. One of the things that set the Impressionists apart was their insistence, like Courbet, on painting the real world as they saw it,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Byam Shaw figure in landscape

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    Boer War, 1900 – 1901 – Last Summer Things Were Greener, John Byam Liston Shaw Image from the Athenaeum. Original is in the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. The painting, in the detailed style associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, depicts the artist’s sister mourning her cousin, who was killed in the Boer War in South Africa.…

  • Strawberry Mansion mural project

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    Strawberry Mansion is an 18th century house in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park that has been designated as a historic site and museum, and for the last few years has been undergoing major renovation. As part of the project, the mansion’s formal banquet room will be painted with new murals on all four walls. Philadelphia artists Dot…

  • Matthew Meyer

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    Matthew Meyer grew up in New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia, and studied illustration at the Ringling College of Art in Florida. After traveling to Japan on a study abroad program, he was so inspired by Japanese art and culture that he moved there in 2007. Meyer has been using digital art to create images…