Author: cparker
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Mark Boedges (update)
Mark Boedges is a Vermont based contemporary painter whose work I have admired and followed for several years. I first featured his work on Lines and Colors in 2013. The images above are from an upcoming show at the Red Piano Art Gallery in Bluffton, South Carolina. that begins on November 7, 2025 with a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Willard Metcalf landscape
Waning Summer, Willard Metcalf, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. ( 61 x 61 cm). Link is to Wikiart page. I don’t know the location of the original, I assume it’s in a provate collection. Metcalf, an American Impressionist who was particularly adept at scenes of fall colors, finds that sweet spot in late…
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Xu Yao
Xu Yao is a Chinese illustrator, comics artist and game designer about whom I can find little biographical information. I don’t know what kind of projects the artwork I’ve encountered is associated with, but it is delightfully playful and beautifully conceived. There is a recurring theme of characters interacting with exaggeratedly large objects like teapots…
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Eye Candy for Today: Worthington Whittredge forest interior
The Brook in the Woods, Worthington Whittredge, oil on canvas, roughly 28 x 36 in. (71 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Whittredge was an American painter of the second generation Hudson RIver school active in the mid 19th and early 20th centuries. He was fascinated with scenes of…
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Douglas Smith (update)
Douglas Smith is an illustrator whose specialty is working in the fascinating medium of scratchboard. I first wrote about him in 2013, and I thought iw would be interesting to check back into see some additional work. He uses the wonderfully graphic nature of the medium, both in black and white and in color, to…
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Eye Candy for Today: James Tissot’s Japanese Scroll
The Japanese Scroll, James Tissot, oli on panel, roughly 15 x 2 in. (39 x 57 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons, Original is in a private collection, image sourced form past Christie’s auction. The soft light, informal pose and seemingly mundane subject matter might tempt us to think of this as…