Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Egyptian encaustic portrait
Portrait of the Boy Eutyches, Egypt, Roman Period, encaustic on wood panel, 15 x 8 in. (38 x 19 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. What appears at first glance to be a sophisticated contemporary oil portrait, is, in fact, an encaustic painting that is roughly 2,000 years old. Painted in…
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Dugald Stewart Walker
Dugald Stewart Walker was one of the less well known American illustrators active in the early 20th century, basically in the latter part of the “Golden Age” of illustraion. His style was in keeping with other great illustrators of the time, notably, I think, those from Europe and the UK, like Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Charles Ethan Porter watercolor still life
Still Life with Corn, Charles Ethan Porter; watercolor on paper, 11 x 17 in, (27 x 43 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Though watercolor and gouahe are common in botanical art, they are infrequently usesd for still life paintings. There’s something I particularly like about those that I’m familiar with,…
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Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2026!
As I’ve done on every New Year’s Eve for the last 20 years(!), I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with one of J. C. Leyendecker’s New Year’s covers for the Saturday Evening Post. In most of these, Leyendecker commented on events of the time, In this one he’s marking the…
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Granville Redmond (revisited)
Originally from Philadelphia, Granville Redmond became prominent as a California Impressionist, bringing the ideas of the Frensh Impressionists to the California countryside. Like the French Impressionists, and their American east coast contemporaries, the California Impressionists painted on location, looking to capture the visual effects of light and color in the landscape. Redmond was fascinated, in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Durer ink drawing
An Eastern Ruler Seated on His Throne. Albrecht Durer, pen and black ink on paper, 12 x 8 inches (31 x 20 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Durer was a master of painting, graphics and, of course, drawing. In this wonderful ink drawing, his command of line, hatching and…