Author: cparker
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Arantza Sestayo
Arantza Sestayo is a Spanish painter and illustrator who works promarily in the genres of fantasy and imaginative realism. Her highly refined paintings and drawngs show the influence of Victorian painting, Art Nouveau and the Pre-Raphaelites. (Her image above, bottom, may be a nod to J. W. Waterhouse’s depiction of jealous Circe.) Sestayo applies her…
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Eye Candy for Today: Maxfield Parrish landscape
Autumn Brook, Maxfield Parrish, oil on board, roughly 23 x 18 in (60 x 46 cm). Link is to past auction on Christies; large image here. Another beautifully realized imaginary landscape by the great American painter and illustrator, Maxfield Parrish.
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait of Mme Lethiere
Madame Guillaume Guillon Lethière, née Marie-Joseph-Honorée Vanzenne, and her son Lucien Lethière, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres; graphite on paper; roughly 9 x 7″ (24 x 19 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. I’m a great admirer of Ingres’ sensitive pencil portrait drawings. This one is a bit unusual, more finished…
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William H. Hays
William H. Hays is a printmaker who works in linocut and woodblock color printmaking methods. These involve either multiple blocks or a reduction process, in which additional areas of the block are cut away for each successive application of color. There is a blog post on his website that describes his process, and a short…
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Eye Candy for Today: JMW Turner etching and mezzotint
The Woman and Tambourine (Liber Studiorum, part I, plate 3), Joseph Mallord William Turner and Charles Turner, etching and mezzotint, roughly 7 x 11″ (21 x 29 cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art This was one of the prints Turner created for a 70 plate “book of studies”, he published in…
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Henry Justice Ford
Henry Justice Ford (AKA Henry J. Ford or H. J. Ford) was a popular British illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. Ford’s primary medium was pen and ink, but he also worked in watercolor. Though his skill in those mediums may not have been quite as refind as that of some…