Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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John McCartin
Though his subjects indlude still life and figures, Australian artist John McCartin focuses primarily on landscape, and is particularly adept in his portrayals of the large gnarled gum trees found in Australia. These provide ideal subjects for McCartin’s deft handling of light, texture and atmosphere, their light colored trunks striking in sunlight against the darker…
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Samuel Gomez
New York based artist and designer Samuel Gomez works at a large scale in graphite and ink to create his complex, intricate arrangements of mechanical and biological forms. He apparently uses fine line markers to delineate his subjects, rendering the exactingly applied tones with graphite in an almost airbrush-like effect. He makes use of subtle…
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Sean Farrell
Largely self-taught, and inspired by numerous trips to Italy and the Netherlands where he studied paintings of the masters in museums and churches wherever possible, American painter Sean Farrell brings his fascination with 17th Italian and Dutch painters to play in his luminous, richly hued still life subjects. Farrell makes wonderful use of chiaroscuro in…
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Tomek Sętowski
Tomek Sętowski is a contemporary Polish painter, who would be most readily classified as a magic realist. His compositions are often filled with cascades of multiple objects, figures and architectural structures. In many cases, he portrays objects or figures composed of other objects. His color palate ranges from subdued and almost monochrome to broad arrays…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pieter de Hooch interior
Interior with Women beside a Linen Cupboard, Pieter de Hooch In the Rijskmuseum. This is another of Pieter de Hooch’s marvelous “keyhole paintings”, in which we are not only invited to enter the painting, but to effectively pass through it — first in the form of the window behind the women, which offers a glimpse…
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Bill Cone
Bill Cone is a visual development and background artist for Pixar Animation Studios, and is also a dedicated plein air pastel painter. There is often some question about whether pastel is “drawing” or “painting”. It can be either, of course (or even both simultaneously), but I think the distinction has more to do with handling…