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Author: cparker

  • Hendrick Goltzius, The Resurrection

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    The Resurrection, from The Passion of Christ, Hendrik Goltzius, Engraving, roughly 8 x 5 inches (20 x 13 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hendrick Goltzius was a German born Dutch printmaker, draftsman and painter active in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Among his other accomplishments was a folio…

  • Mac Smith, Scurry

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    Mac Smith is is a concept artist and illustrator who has largely put aside his work in the gaming industry to concentrate on his own comics project. Scurry is a post-apocalyptic survival story in which the protagonists are mice. The setting is an abandoned house and the surrounding woods, now mysteriously devoid of humans. With…

  • Eye Candy for Today: William Hughes grapevines

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    Grapevines, White and Grapevines, Red, William Hughes Two panels of a diptych, oil and gold paint on canvas, each roughly 40 x 17 inches (100 x 44 cm). The source for the images is an auction house, so I assume these are now in a privete collection. Of the two panels, that of the white…

  • Daniel Blimes

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    Daniel Blimes is a Los Angeles based painter whose current work is a series of portraits, faces and figures rendered in oil in a fascinatingly textural approach. Many of the works are almost monochromatic save for key passages, others are rich with subtle variations in color. His textures combine striations, stipple and linear geometric marks…

  • Historic paintings and drawings of Notre-Dame de Paris

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    When my wife and I first arrived in Paris in 2002, evening was descending as we checked into our B&B and it was dark when we went out for our first stoll in Paris. We were staying in the area of the Botanical Gardens, and it was a short walk down to the quay by…

  • Paulo J. Mendes

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    Paulo J. Mendes is an avid urban sketcher based in Matosinhos, Portugal. His blog and Instagram feed have a subheading of “Stealing landscapes with a sketchbook”. I’m not sure if that’s intentional or an algorithmic translation for something more like “capturing landscapes”. (The original Portuguese reads: “A roubar paisagens com um caderno”.) [Addendum: a Portugese…