Category: Drawing
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Dave Malan (update 2023)
Dave Malan is an artist an illustrator I’ve featured twice before, most recently back in 2015. Since then he has updated his website with more of his delightful illustrations, portraits, and drawings. As you might guess from my choice of example images, I’m particularly fond of his pencil portrait drawings. These range from brief sketches…
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Eye Candy for Today: Dante Gabriel Rossetti pencil portrait
Portrait of Mrs. William Morris, née Jane Burden, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; graphite on paper, roughly 13 x 11 inches (33 x 29 cm), in the colleciton of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable image on their site. Though nominally the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti has…
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Eye Candy for Today: Giuseppe Zocchi ink drawing
Villa Mancini in the Vicinity of Signa, Giuseppe Zocchi; pen and black in on paper; roughly 11 x 19 inches (28 x 47 cm). In the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image. Giuseppe Zocch was an 18th century Italian painter and printmaker active in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Raphael figure studies
Nude Studies, Raphael, red chalk and metalpoint, roughy 16 x 11 in. (40 x 28 cm); link is to zoomable images on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. original is in the Albertina, Vienna. Raphael is considered to be one of the greatest draftsmen in history, and this relatively well known drawing of…
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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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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait of Mme Lethiere
Madame Guillaume Guillon Lethière, née Marie-Joseph-Honorée Vanzenne, and her son Lucien Lethière, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres; graphite on paper; roughly 9 x 7″ (24 x 19 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. I’m a great admirer of Ingres’ sensitive pencil portrait drawings. This one is a bit unusual, more finished…