Category: Digital Painting
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Jourdan Truffan
Jourdan Truffan is a concept artist snd illustrator based in Sydney, Australia who works digially in Photoshop and Blender. His fresh, nicely styleized designs for both characters and environments have an appealing clarity and precision. He applies to that solid foundation a playful sense of light and shadow, giving his scenes a sense of atmosphere.…
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Arantza Sestayo
Arantza Sestayo is a Spanish painter and illustrator who works promarily in the genres of fantasy and imaginative realism. Her highly refined paintings and drawngs show the influence of Victorian painting, Art Nouveau and the Pre-Raphaelites. (Her image above, bottom, may be a nod to J. W. Waterhouse’s depiction of jealous Circe.) Sestayo applies her…
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Values in Monet’s Impression, Sunrise
Originally exhibited in the April 1874 exhibit of the Societe’ Anonyme des Artistes, Peintires, Sculpters, Graveurs, Etc. (Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc.), now referred to as the First Impressionist Exhibition, this painting by Claude Monet appeared with the title: Impression, Sunrise. The name was picked up by unsympathetic critics and used derisively to…
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Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Rackham illustration for Götterdämmerung
The ring upon thy hand — / … ah, be implored! / For Wotan fling it away! (from Götterdämmerung) One of the many beautiful and sensitively realized illustrations the brilliant “Golden Age” British illustrator Aurhur Rackham did of the stories from Richard Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” series of operas. From this set on Wikimedia Commons. For…
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawing Materials
Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawing Materials is a short (5 minute) video in which a conservator from the Royal Collection Trust describes and demonstrates some of the drawing materials available to Leonardo and other Renaissance artists. It was produced in conjunction with the exhibit “Leonardo da Vinci: Ten Drawings from the Royal Collection” that is on…