Author: cparker
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Baumgartner painting restoration videos
If, like me, you find the conservation and restoration of historic artworks interesting, you will probably enjoy this series of videos (YouTube link) from Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, a conservation studio located in Chicago. In the video from which I’ve shown some example images, above, we see the restoration of a badly torn portrait by…
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Eye Candy for today: Ivan Shishkin graphite drawing
Trees by the Stream, Ivan Shishkin Link is to the image page on The Athenaeum, direct link to the large image here. Original is in the Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg. The drawing is in graphite. I don’t have the dimensions. Like many of the great landscape painters, 19th century Russian…
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Randall Graham
Randall Graham is a painter based in southeastern Pennsylvania who isn’t reluctant to experiment with variations in style. His approach ranges from straightforward realism to highly textural surfaces to the semi-abstraction of a series that he calls “en rain air”, plein air paintings done in the rain through the blur of raindrops on the window…
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Eye Candy for Today: Francesco Novelli ink and wash drawing
Diana and Her Hounds, Francesco Novelli Pen and black ink with brown wash; roughly 5 x 4″ (13 x 10 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. I don’t know much about Francesco Novelli, who was active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but I find this drawing interesting for…
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Michael Doyle
Michael Doyle is a painter based in the Delaware Valley area who paints figures, still life, landscapes and interiors. His landscapes and interiors often incorporate still life elements, handled with a rough edged, painterly style suited to their often rustic feel. Doyle frequently employs backgrounds that are textural combinations of multiple muted colors, giving them…
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Eye Candy for Today: Joaquim Vayreda’s Scarecrow
The Scarecrow, Joaquim Vayreda Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional D-Art de Catalunya. 19th century Spanish painter Joaquim Vayreda gives us a nicely evocative scene of farm fields in early Autumn.