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Author: cparker

  • Picturing Summer, a Solstice Celebration on Tor.com

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    Following up on her terrific previous posts of Picturing Winter, a Solstice Celebration and Picturing Spring, an Equinox Celebration, Irene Gallo has once again invited an array of artists and art directors to give her their suggestions for favorite seasonal images, this time for Picturing Summer, a Solstice Celebration. As in those previous posts, the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ingres graphite portrait

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    Portrait of Mme Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, née Sophie Leroy, graphite drawing by Jean-Aguste-Dominique Ingres. I love how casual the rest of the drawing seems compared to the carefully rendered face. From the Morgan Library and Museum. More here. Use the controls under the image for Zoom and Full Screen.

  • Night Light (Qing Han)

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    Night Light is a delightful and beautifully realized short animation (1 minute) by Qing Han, done as a fourth year project as an animation student at Sheridan College in Ontario. It follows a young girl whose painted fish immediately come to life. You can see more of Han’s visual development work on her website, and…

  • Daniel Sponton

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    There is a fascination to drawings and paintings in which many figures are arrayed in the same space, often in a semi-aerial view that allows for lots of them to be seen at once. Argentinian cartoonist and illustrator Daniel Sponton has developed an illustration style that features hundreds of small figures arranged in sometimes complex…

  • Jakub Schikaneder

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    The muted, atmospheric landscapes, room interiors and nocturnes of Czech painter Jakub Schikaneder often seem steeped in melancholy, if not overt sadness, sometimes with lone figures almost blended into the soft darkness. Schikaneder appears to have taken some of the painterly brushwork and broken color of the French Impressionists and turned them in a different…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Rijckaert

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    Landscape with Satyrs, attributed to Marten Rijckaert. In the National Gallery, London. Use controls at right of image to launch full screen viewer and zoom in.