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Author: cparker

  • David Wyatt (update)

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    David Wyatt is a UK based illustrator working primarily in the fantasy genre for children’s books. Since I wrote about him in 2009, Wyatt has a new website and a new blog, along with, of course, lots of delightful new material online. In many of his feature illustrations, done in watercolor, Wyatt has a richly…

  • Delbert Gish

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    Delbert Gish is an American painter who received his master of fine arts degree from the University of Idaho, but went on from there to study with late 20th century and contemporary masters Sergei Bongart, David Leffel, Harvey Dinnerstein, Burton Silverman and Nelson Shanks. The legacy of his study with those painters is reflected in…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt landscape drawing

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    Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood, Rembrandt van Rijn. If I were writing an illustrated dictionary of art terms, next to “economy of notation” I would have one of Rembrandt’s drawings. Interestingly, for an artist whose paintings were primarily portraiture, many of Rembrandt’s etchings, and a high percentage of the drawings apparently done for…

  • Newsreel visit to Fleischer Studios

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    This 1939 Paramount “Popular Science” newsreel explains the basic principles of cartoon animation in the course of a visit to Fleischer Studios, where they are working on a Popeye cartoon. I don’t know how long this will be available on YouTube before some copyright troll or other demands a takedown. [Via @MaxtheMutt]

  • Eye Candy for Today: early Fantin-Latour still life

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    Still Life with Roses and Fruit, Henri Fantin-Latour. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and Zoom or download arrow. Though I also admire Fantin-Latour’s mature work, I just love the painterly quality of this early still life — a wonderful study in brushwork and edges. To my thinking, there is a direct…

  • Tugboat Printshop: Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth

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    Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth are collaborative artists working in woodblock prints, and are also husband and wife. Tugboat Printshop is their online store and gallery. The site not only showcases their work but is in large part devoted to process, and details various aspects of the creation and production of their prints. Their work…