Author: cparker
-
Bill Carman at Brumfield’s in Boise
Like that irresistibly alliterative title, Bill Carman’s work seems to have bounced out of his imagination fully formed, too wonderfully refined in its execution to be so delightfully off-kilter in its subjects. After solo shows in New York and California, Carman’s characters, beasts and undefinable others — rendered in pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic and…
-
Rachel Ruysch
Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch, whose life and career straddled the seventeenth and eighteeth centuries, was renowned for her striking still life paintings of flowers, which occasionally featured fruit and crystal glassware. Very often they featured insects as well, perhaps either to make them more true to nature or to intimate that the flowers and fruits…
-
Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colors
Most artists who work in oils recognize three general grades of oil paints. For lack of better terms, they can be called student grade, artist grade and premium grade. There are numerous levels of variation within those categories, of course, but they will do as a generalization. In student grade paints, the price is kept…
-
Victor Nizovtsev
Victor Nizovtsev was born in Russia and studied at the Ilia Repin Collge for Art in Chisinau, Moldavia and the Vera Muhina University for Industrial Arts in St. Petersburg. He now lives in the U.S. in Maryland. His paintings have some of the narrative character of Golden Age children’s book illustration, and draw on influences…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Tiffany’s Cairo
On the Way between Old and New Cairo, Citadel Mosque of Mohammed Ali, and Tombs of the Mamelukes by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Tiffany is better known for his stained glass and decorative works, but was a skilled painter in the orientalist vein. In the Brooklyn Museum. Click “Download” under the image and choose a size.…
-
Aaron Schuerr
Aaron Schuerr portrays the mountains, streams and woodlands of his adopted home of Montana in both oil and pastel. His plein air works show a subtle appreciation for the fleeting effects of light, and his painterly approach demonstrates a keen awareness of the importance of edges. Though mountains are his most frequent subject, I particularly…