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  • Alyssa Winans

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    Alyssa Winans is an illustrator and concept artist for the gaming industry based in the San Francisco area. She is also a Google Doodle artist. Winans often uses restrained palettes, along with subtle graphic and textural elements, to give her subjects presence and focus. I enjoy the way she controls her values in textural passages,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Willem Kalf Still Life with Ewer and Basin, Fruit, Nautilus Cup and other Objects

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    Still Life with Ewer and Basin, Fruit, Nautilus Cup and other Objects, Willem Kalf Oil on canvas, roughly 44 x 33 inches (111 x 84 cm); in the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional, Madrid, which has zoomable and downloadable versions of the image on their site. This is another stunning gem by 17th century…

  • Ferdinand Knab

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    Ferdinand Knab was a German painter active in the latter half of the 19th century. He trained as an architect, but after working in the field for two years, he left to devote himself to architectural painting. Aside from that, I can find little information and only a few image resources. Knab frequently focused on…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Sargent charcoal portrait drawing

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    Portrait of Ernest Schelling, John Singer Sargent Charcoal on paper, roughly 24 x 18 inches (62 x 47 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY (use zoom or download links above and below image on their page). Many people are aware of Sargent’s stunning society portraits and his brilliant personal watercolors,…

  • Michal Orlowski

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    Michal Orlowski is a Polish watercolor painter who is the founder of the Creosfera atelier and one of the cofounders of the Polish Watercolor Association. Orlowski’s training as an architect shows in his solid draftsmanship and handling of perspective, along with is general fondness for architectural subjects. His confident, almost casual rendering gives his cityscape…

  • Louise Moillon

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    Louise Moillon was a French still life painter active in the 17th century. Though she lived in Paris, where still life painting had yet to become accepted as a respected genre, she painted in the Flemish Baroque style of still life that was becoming popular in the Netherlands. Her work includedd elements of trompe l’oeil…