Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Vigée Le Brun self portrait
Self portrait in a Straw Hat,, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun; oil on canvas, roughly 39 x 28 in. (99 x 70 cm); in the collection of the National Gallery, London. There is a high resolution image available from this page on Wikipedia. Vigée Le Brun was a renowned 18th centry portait painter. Her subjects…
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Free Comic Book Day – May 6, 2023
Tomorrow, May 6 is Free Comic Book Day 2023. Stop by your friendly neighborhood comic book shop, who will be even friendlier than usual, to see what’s happening in comics and pick one more (depending on the shop) free comic books created by publishers just for the occasion. The shops will often have special deals,…
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Aldo Balding
Aldo Balding is a British painter now living in the south of France. He paints portraits and genre scenes, both of which often contain narrative elements — suggesting a story to which we are only privy to a moment, leaving the rest to our imagination. His lighting is also often theatrically dramatic, pulling your eye…
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Leopold Franz Kowalski
Leopold Franz Kowalski was a French artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was known in particular for his paintings of women in long gowns or dress in bucolic landscapes.
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Eye Candy for Today: Chardin still life with coper pot
Ustensiles de cuisine, chaudron, poêlon et oeufs, Jean baptiste Siméon Chardin, oil on wood, roughly 7×15″ (17 x 38 cm), in the collection of the Louvre. Another of Chadin’s marvelous little still life paintings, that I find elevate the ordinary to the extraordinary. I love the way Chardin paints copper. The white markings along the…
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Frank Sherwin
Frank Sherwin was a British artist active in the early to mid 20th century. He is best known for his delightful travel posters, as well as his traditional watercolors. He also painted watercolors for a number of “carriage prints” (images above, bottom, with details). These were horizontal format banners displayed in railway cars for the…