Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh pen & watercolor sketches
Gate at the Paris Ramparts, Entrance to the Moulin de la Galette, Vincent van Gogh Pencil, pen & ink, watercolor & gouache on paper, roughly 9 x 12″ (24 x 32 cm) and 12 x 9″ (31 x 24 cm), respectively. As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts on “Not the usual Van Goghs“, in…
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Arnold Marc Gorter
Arnold Marc Gorter was a Dutch landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. There aren’t a large number of his works available online, but some of them are large to appreciate his approach, which seems to be influenced by both Impressionist color and Barbizon school textures.
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Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2018
Every year since 2006, I’ve been highlighting the brief (one minute or so) animations made by small teams of graduating students from Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Gobelins School of Communications) in Paris to be used as introductions to each of the day’s events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation. Like last year’s group, at…
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Eye Candy for Today: Portrait of Princess Belozersky, Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
Portrait of Princess Belozersky, Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun In the collection of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; full image here. There is also a zoomable version on the Google Art Project that goes a bit more high resolution. Another beautiful portrait by the brilliant 18th century French painter Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun.…
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Louis Escobedo
Louis Escobedo is a painter originally from Texas and now based in New Mexico. Escobedo began his career as an illustrator, and was awarded a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators, among other honors. He transitioned into gallery art and has developed a high chroma signature style with compositions structured with strongly geometric areas…
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Eye Candy for Today:Jacob Marrel still life
Still Life With Red, Black And Green Grapes On The Vine, Together With Oranges, A Partly-Peeled Lemon And A Melon On A Draped Table-Top, Jacob Marrel Roughly 20 x 29 inches (51 x 74 cm), oil on panel. Link is to Sotheby’s auction (image file here). As this is the only image I can find,…