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  • Steven J. Levin

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    Steven J. Levin is a contemporary American realist painter based in Minnesota. The galleries on his website are divided into Figures & Interiors and Still Life, though within those topics he works in a variety of subjects and approaches. There are often repeated themes, however, of restaurant, museum and poolroom interiors and still life arrangements…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jan van Scorel’s Maria Magdalena

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    Maria Magdalena, Jan van Scorel I love the textures throughout, and the small figures in the background landscape. In the Rijksmuseum. Use the zoom controls, or register for a RijksStudio account to download high-res images. (See my post on the New Rijksmuseum website.)

  • Mike Bear

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    Mike Bear is a concept artist, illustrator and comics artist. His clients include Rockstar Games, Hasbro, Devil’s Due Publishing, Royal Elastics, Lolapps, Inc., Popcap, and EA. Bear’s sketchblog includes some examples of his professional work but more often works in progress, personal flights of fancy, sketches, life drawings, and other graphic meanderings — a visual…

  • Edmund Charles Tarbell (update)

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    Edmund Charles Tarbell was the primary founder of the “Boston School” of American Impressionism, one of the most important of the painters called American Impressionists, and to my mind, one of the great American painters in general. Since I last wrote about Tarbell back in 2006, many more resources have become available for viewing his…

  • Per Haagensen

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    Per Haagensen is a Norwegian concept artist and illustrator based in Oslo. He appears to work primarily digitally in Photoshop. Other than that, I know little. His own website is not yet launched, and there isn’t much background information on the site of his artists’ rep, Shannon Associates or on his CG SOciety portfolio. There…

  • Phil Starke

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    Phil Starke is an artist who brings a bright, painterly sensibility to his portrayals of the landscape of the American West and Southwest. Starke was exposed to European art as a boy while his military family lived in Germany. He later studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, and was drawn to the…