Author: cparker
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Another Norman Rockwell exhausted Santa
Another of Norman Rockwell’s tired Santa illustrations, this one before rather than after his world-round ride, as in the illustration I featured in this post from 2017. I love the fact that Santa is apparently oblivious to the elf on his shoulder hanging onto his ear as he leans out to point. Source for the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Peder Mønsted winter landscape
Sunny Winter Day (Ein sonniger Wintertag), Peder Mørk Mønsted Link is to image on Wikimedia Commons: I don’t know the location of the original. Happy Winter Solstice, everyone!
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Russell Chatham
Russell Chatham was an American landscape artist based for most of his career in Montana. Though he also produced oil paintings, he is known in particular for his beautifully subtle color lithographs, some of which use 30 or more layers of color to attain the final image. His work shares some characteristics with tonalist painting,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Paxton’s The Yellow Jacket
The Yellow Jacket, William McGregor Paxton, oil on canvas, roughly 27 x 22 inches (56 x 69 cm). Link is to Bonham’s, which auctioned the painting in 2016 and has a zoomable version on the auction detail page. I don’t know the current location; I would assume it’s in a private collection. There is a…
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Will Terry
Will Terry is freelance illustrator with a history of both editorial and children’s book illustration. His emphasis currently is on the latter, and he has worked with publishers like Random House, Simon Schuster, Scholastic, Penguin, Klutz, and Albert Whitman. He has also created widely circulated indie ebooks and is the co-founder of the online children’s…
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Kazuo Torigoe
Trompe l’oeil (French for “deceive the eye”) — a style of painting in which the goal is to create an illusion of the presence of three dimensional objects — has a long history in European painting. While it’s tempting to dismiss it as mere amusement, I think it goes to the nature of illusion inherent…