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  • Chase Stone

    Chase Stone, illustrations MTG
    Though New York based illustrator Chase Stone does editorial and conceptual illustration as well, he excels in particular at fantasy illustration.

    One avenue for his fantastical imaginings is Magic: The Gathering, his illustrations for which are not only beautifully realized, but have a dramatic mythological flair.

    His website is essentially a Tumblr blog. The gallery on the site of his Illustrators Representative, Richard Solomon, has a good sampling of his work, along with a process step-through. He also has a gallery on deviantART.



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  • Paul W. McCormack (update)

    Paul W. McCormack, portraits in oil and watercolor
    Since I last wrote about Hudson River Valley based portrait artist Paul McCormack way back in 2006, he has established a new website which, I’m glad to say, features much larger images of his work (click on the images for enlargements).

    McCormack also maintains his McCormack Studio website, which includes additional paintings in watercolor and oil, as well as graphite drawings. It also lists the roster of his classes and workshops, books, and his custom designed watercolor palette.

    As much as I admire his refined oil portraits (images above, bottom three) and beautifully finessed pencil drawings, it’s his striking watercolor portraits (above, top five) that I find most compelling.



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  • Eye Candy for Today: Hanna Hirsch Pauli invites us for breakfast

    Breakfast-Time, Hanna Hirsch Pauli
    Breakfast-Time, Hanna Hirsch Pauli

    There is an often overlooked sub-genre of painting that I particularly enjoy; for lack of a better term, it might be called “outdoor still life”.

    I’m hard pressed to think of a better example than this stunningly beautiful painting of a 19th century breakfast table in a sun-dappled garden by Swedish artist Hanna Hirsch Pauli.

    Richly painterly, with color that is at once understated and vibrant, it catches that magical difference of presenting still life subjects in the colors of sunlight.

    The link is to Google Art Project. There is a high-resolution downloadable version of the file on Wikimedia Commons.

    The original is in the Nationalmuseum, Sweden, but their version of the image seems over-saturated. I haven’t seen the original, but my feeling is that this is one of those examples where the Google Art Project got the color right and the museum got it wrong.


    Breakfast-Time, Google Art Project

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  • Cherngzhi Lian

    Cherngzhi Lian
    Cherngzhi Lian is an artist based in Singaapore who works primarily in acrylic and watercolor, as well as drawing media.

    There are galleries on his website, largely of scenes from his travels in Bhutan. There is a drop-down menu for subjects, accessed from “Painting” on the left (though I found it cranky in my copy of Safari).

    There are also sketches under “Drawings” and “Travels”.

    Lian has a Tumblr blog, on which he posts sketches, often photographed in the context of the scene he is sketching.

    Many of his recent posts are devoted to his latest project, in which he is attempting to design “The Perfect Sketchbook”.



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  • Miranda Meeks

    Miranda Meeks
    Utah illustrator Miranda Meeks conveys her often dark-edged subjects with a subtle touch, and a refined sense of value and color. She works in both traditional and digital media.

    Her website arranges her work in several categories (accessed from a drop-down), but unfortunately relies on you to use the browser’s back button rather than allowing some way to progressively step through the images.

    You can also find galleries of her work on Behance, and she maintains a Tumblr blog, on which she posts finished pieces as well as sketches, detail crops, works in progress and process articles.



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  • John O’Reilly

    John O'Reilly
    In urban scenes of walls, corridors, alleys and car parks — that most of use might pass by unnoticed — Irish artist John O’Reilly finds fascination with geometric shapes, muted color, weathered textures and patterns of light and shade.

    O’Reilly’s website has example of his urban landscapes, as well as wall art and murals.

    I particularly enjoy the textural patterns in his paintings of slate or shingle roofs.



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Charley’s Picks
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John Singer Sargent: Watercolors
John Singer Sargent: Watercolors

Sorolla the masterworks
Sorolla: the masterworks

The Art Spirit
The Art Spirit

Rendering in Pen and Ink
Rendering in Pen and Ink

Urban Sketching: Understanding Perspective
Urban Sketching: Understanding Perspective

World of Urban Sketching
World of Urban Sketching

Daily Painting
Daily Painting

Drawing on the right side of the brain
Drawing on the right side of the brain

Understanding Comics
Understanding Comics

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Amazon

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John Singer Sargent: Watercolors
John Singer Sargent: Watercolors

Sorolla the masterworks
Sorolla: the masterworks

The Art Spirit
The Art Spirit

Rendering in Pen and Ink
Rendering in Pen and Ink

Urban Sketching: Understanding Perspective
Urban Sketching: Understanding Perspective

World of Urban Sketching
World of Urban Sketching

Daily Painting
Daily Painting

Drawing on the right side of the brain
Drawing on the right side of the brain

Understanding Comics
Understanding Comics