Author: cparker
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Alex Warnick
Alex Warnick is an artist who specializes in watercolor paintings of birds. Her website portfolio is divided into sections for Painting and Illustration, though her technique seems basically consistent. She combines a naturalistic approach to the birds themselves, setting them off with bits of flora that act as design elements. In addition to her portfolio,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Johan Christian Dahl landscape
View From Stalheim, Johan Christian Dahl, oil on canvas, 75 x 97 inches (190 x 246 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; (very) high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the National Museum of Art and Design, Oslo. 19th century Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl’s large scale view of…
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Maximilian Liebenwein
Austrian-German painter and illustrator Maximilian Liebenwein, who was active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries, worked in an illustation style that feels in keeping with many of the other classic illustrators of that “Golden Age” of illustration. In particular, some of Liebenwein’s illustrations put me in mind of the Russian folk art influenced…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tarbell’s Preparing for the Matinee
Preparing for the Matinee, Edmund Charles Tarbell; oil on canvas, roughly 45 x 35″ (114 x 89 cm); link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable (very) high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which also has zoomable and downloadable versions. Like other members of the…
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Edward Ladell
\ !9th century English still life painter Edward Ladell was obviously impressed with the still life paintings of the 17th and 18th century Dutch and Flemish masters, and carried forward in a similar style. Many of his paintings tend to be on the small side, roughly 9 x 12″ or so (23 x 30 cm),…
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Eye Candy for Today: Heinrich Reinhold pencil drawing
A View of Civitella from the Serpentara next to Olevano, graphite on paper, roughly 9 x 12 inches (23 x 30 cm), in the collection of the Getty Museum, additional zoomable image on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. This drawing by German painter Heinrich Reinhold, who was active in the late 18th…