Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Renaissance book illumination
From Book of Hours by Master Jean de Mauléon. This is a book illumination. The original is approximately 7 x 4″ (17 x 10 cm). In the Walters Art Museum. Click “Download Image” for full size.
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Cliff Childs
Cliff Childs is a concept artist and illustrator based in Los Angeles. He studied at the Otis College of Art and Design and is, I believe, currently working with Sony Computer Entertainment America. Childs has an approach to concept environments that stresses atmosphere, both in the sense of atmospheric perspective and in terms of mood.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederic Leighton’s Lachrymae
Lachrymae by Frederic, Lord Leighton. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” under then image, then use zoom or download arrow. There is an image of the painting in the ornate, portal-like frame Leighton chose for it here. “Lachrymae” is latin for “tears”.
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Jennifer Hom
Originally from New York, Jennifer Hom studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. She now resides in San Francisco and works as an illustrator for Google, where she has created the images for a number of Google Doodles, including the wonderful recent tribute to Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland that I mentioned…
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Eye Candy for Today: Durer’s Hare
Hare (or Field Rabbit), by Albrecht Durer. Watercolor and bodycolor, roughly 10 x 8″ (35 x 22 cm). Wow. Stunning mastery of water media, and one of the most clear, focused and beautiful examples of artistic observation I’ve ever seen. On Google Art Project. Click on the image for zoom controls. Original is in the…
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Guido Daniele
Guido Daniele is an italian painter and illustrator based in Milan. In 2000, Daniele started creating his “Handimals”, in which he applies body painting techniques to hands, poses them in positions that, along with the painting, result in images that resemble animals, portrayed with a wonderful sense of dynamics. He has extended this to painted…