Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: River Gnilitsa by Vladimir Orlovsky
River Gnilitsa, Vladimir Orlovsky; oil on canvas, roughly 37 x 61″ (95 x 155cm). Link is to 2012 Bonham’s auction (with zoomable image). I assume the present location is a private collection. There is a reasonably large downloadable image here on Art Market Monitor. Ukrainian painter Vladimir Orlovsky, who I featured recently as well as…
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Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban
Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban were Austrian born illustrators and stage scene designers who collaborated as well as working independently. In addition, Lefler was a painter and Urban an architect, and they were brothers-in-law. They were active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I have not idea how to sort out who did…
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Jon Juarez
Jon Juarez is a visual development artist, illustrator, cartoonist and screenwriter based in San Sebastian, Spain. He works in a line and color style with a high key and often high chroma palette.
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Bogaerts still life
Still life with a green strainer, Jan Bogaerts Link is to sold listing on Simonis & Buunk gallery, which has a zoomable version of the image. Early 20th century Dutch painter Jan Bogaerts has a marvelous touch for portraying the surface textures of his still life objects. At times his deftly handled light and the…
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Li Yong Hong
Chinese illustrator Li Yong Hong works in scratchboard, a medium that is almost the inverse of pen and ink. Instead of drawing in ink directly on a white surface, scratchboard is done on a white board that is coated with clay and then coated with a layer of black ink. The black surface is scratched…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bernardo Bellotto pen and wash drawing
Imaginary View of Padua, Bernardo Bellotto; pen, black ink and gray wash drawing; roughly 13 x 17 inches (32 x 43 cm). Original is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 18th century Italian artist Bernardo Bellotto had a very effective pen and wash technique for rendering architectural subjects that is similar to…