Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Corot waterfall
Waterfall at Terni, by Camille Corot. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” and zoom or download..
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Robert Lemler
Robert Lemler is an artist based in Phoenix, Arizona who works in all four of the traditional subject areas: figure, portrait, still life and landscape. In each, his approach is incisive and economical, using a plein air painter’s eye even in the studio to distill the essence of his subject into forceful compositions and strong…
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Kingdom Animalia
Kingdom Animalia is an online group art exhibit and sale to benefit the Big Life Foundation, an non-profit conservation group created by photographer Nick Brandt in response to the alarming increase in animal poaching in Africa. The show includes contributions by a number of artists, both originals and limited edition prints. The works are, naturally…
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Golden Virtual Paint Mixer
Golden Artist Colors, the well known manufacturer of artists’ acrylic paints and related materials, has posted an interactive Virtual Paint Mixer on their website. The module allows you to choose from their range of colors and assign three tube colors to the mixing tubes on the right (by dragging or selecting and clicking) and then…
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Tibor Nagy
Tibor Nagy is an artist from Slovakia who paints his plein air landscapes and townscapes with brusque, rough edged shards and chunks of color. Over a base of thinly applied darks he layers thick paint, sometimes with a loaded brush and sometimes apparently troweled on with a painting knife. These applications are mixed in with…
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Arthur Rackham (update)
Arthur Rackham was one of the greatest illustrators of the turn of the 20th century Golden Age of Illustration, that is to say one of the greatest illustrators of all time. Though many are familiar with his beautiful illustrations for Rip van Winkle (images above, top), which established his reputation, and Gulliver’s Travels, as well…