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  • Eye Candy for Today: Whittredge’s Trout Pool

    The Trout Pool, Worthington Whittredge
    The Trout Pool, Worthington Whittredge

    In the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    One of the younger generation of the Hudson River School painters, Whittredge often favored intimate forest scenes as much as large dramatic landscapes.

    Here, through the framing device of the dark mature trees, their leafy canopy and the fallen log, we are invited to enter a rocky glade; and further — through the break in the rock wall where the creek enters into the pool with a modest fall, we can venture into the space of the dark creek bed beyond. The painting is a nested composition — almost a landscape version of a Pieter de Hooch interior.

    I love the way the dappled light against the large foreground trees is repeated in the light-against-dark trunks of smaller trees around the falls.


    The Trout Pool, Met Museum

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  • Richard Anderson

    Richard Anderson, concept art and illsutration
    Like a stage magician, concept artist and illustrator Richard Anderson deals in suggestion and illusion.

    With an adept skill for suggesting complexity within simplicity, Anderson pulls from his arrays of geometric, semi-abstract forms the essence of an image, leaving your own imagination to fill in with details that don’t actually exist in the original.

    His layered indications of mist, half-seen forms and muted edges gives your mind free license to project as much as you want into the the images. He also uses controlled color palettes, contrasted with sweeping, misty films of higher chroma color, to give his images drama and focus.

    His website offers galleries of his work in various areas, including sketches from life.

    Anderson’s cover illustration was recently mentioned on the blog of Game of Thrones creator George R.R.
    Martin
    , who described it as “kickass”. (In the same post, Martin also speaks highly of the new book Discovering Dinosaurs by one of my favorite paleo artists, Robert Walters.)

    [Via Irene Gallo on Tor.com]



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  • How It’s Made — Oil Paints

    How It's Made - Oil Paints
    Someone has posted to YouTube a short (four minute) segment from the Discovery Channel about how commercial oil paints are formulated and manufactured.

    I don’t know how old this video is — it looks like it’s from a while back — still interesting, though.

    It should be noted that this is about a large art materials manufacturer, in this case Winsor & Newton, and the process would be different for the small independent paint makers, who do many phases of the process by hand instead of on an automated assembly line (see my post on Vasari Classic Artist’s Oil Colors).

    [Via Delaware Art Museum @delartmuseum]



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  • Paul Gustave Fischer

    Danish painter Paul Gustav Fischer, urban scenes of Cpenhagen
    Danish painter Paul Gustave Fischer, active during the late 19th and early 20 centuries, was noted for his urban scenes, many of them set in the light of overcast days, rainy or snowy conditions, with soft edges, muted colors and restrained value ranges.

    He painted frequently in Copenhagen, as well as in Paris, Florence and other European cities. Fischer was also noted for his portraits, and a later series of beach scenes with nude sunbathers.

    The gallery of his work on Wikimedia Commons includes some large images.



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  • Eye Candy for Today: Clarkson Stanfield’s Mount St Michael

    Mount St Michael, Cornwall, Clarkson Stanfield
    Mount St Michael, Cornwall, Clarkson Stanfield

    On Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria.

    Stanfield drew on his eight years as a sailor to create this scene in which he has set the offshore island in the midst of a tempest. Along with a number of other dramatic scenes, it made him a rival for JMW Turner as a marine painter.


    Mount St Michael, Cornwall, Google Art Project

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  • Scott Conary

    Scott Conary, still life, landscape, figureative
    Portland, Oregon based painter Scott Conary paints landscapes, animals, figurative works and still life. His website portfolio offers work in several sections.

    Conary’s still life subjects include common subjects like fruit, but also less commonly explored items like wrenches, spark plugs and cuts of meat. All are handled with brusque, painterly textures and subtle variations in color.

    Conary also has a fascination with the shapes and colors of older motorcycles and their components, which he essentially treats as a form of still life. For these, he has created separate dedicated website, called Oil & Piston, on which offers prints.

    His main websites also includes a FAQ page, in which he discusses his painting materials in addition to other topics.



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