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Mark Boedges (update)

Mark Boedges is a Vermont based contemporary painter whose work I have admired and followed for several years. I first featured his work on Lines and Colors in 2013.

The images above are from an upcoming show at the Red Piano Art Gallery in Bluffton, South Carolina. that begins on November 7, 2025 with a reception on that day from 5:00 – 7:00 pm.

These images are currently on Boedges’ Available Paintings page, and will likely change after the show. Neither Bodges’ site or that of the gallery list a closing date. I might assume it’s up for a month, but I...

Lines and Color

Posted at 2025-10-27 23:00:01 | Illustrations | read on

Eye Candy for Today: Willard Metcalf landscape

Waning Summer, Willard Metcalf, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. ( 61 x 61 cm). Link is to Wikiart page. I don’t know the location of the original, I assume it’s in a provate collection.

Metcalf, an American Impressionist who was particularly adept at scenes of fall colors, finds that sweet spot in late summer when the greens are still a majority, but the fall colors are making their initial appearance.

Lines and Color

Posted at 2025-10-27 21:36:22 | Illustrations | read on

Xu Yao

Xu Yao is a Chinese illustrator, comics artist and game designer about whom I can find little biographical information. I don’t know what kind of projects the artwork I’ve encountered is associated with, but it is delightfully playful and beautifully conceived.

There is a recurring theme of characters interacting with exaggeratedly large objects like teapots and lanterns, I don’t know if the objects are intended to be large, or if the characters are small; I suspect the latter.

Xu Yao’s online presence, as far as I can tell, consists of a portfolio on ArtStation (for which the handle is “huachong”), and a...

Lines and Color

Posted at 2025-10-25 09:31:50 | Illustrations | read on

Eye Candy for Today: Worthington Whittredge forest interior

The Brook in the Woods, Worthington Whittredge, oil on canvas, roughly 28 x 36 in. (71 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Whittredge was an American painter of the second generation Hudson RIver school active in the mid 19th and early 20th centuries.

He was fascinated with scenes of light making its way through the deep shadows of dense forest interiors. It was a subject he returned to many times.

Look at the depth he’s created with the light on more distant trunks behind the sihlouettes of the midground trees.

Compare this to The Trout Pool, also in...

Lines and Color

Posted at 2025-10-21 10:01:01 | Illustrations | read on

Douglas Smith (update)

Douglas Smith is an illustrator whose specialty is working in the fascinating medium of scratchboard. I first wrote about him in 2013, and I thought iw would be interesting to check back into see some additional work.

He uses the wonderfully graphic nature of the medium, both in black and white and in color, to illustrate a variety of subjects.

There is a character to scratchboard, a close relative of pena nd ink (whith which it is often combined) but with its own engaging qualities.

Smith does not appear to have a dedicated website, instead relying on two portfolios of his work on...

Lines and Color

Posted at 2025-10-21 00:52:50 | Illustrations | read on

Eye Candy for Today: James Tissot’s Japanese Scroll

The Japanese Scroll, James Tissot, oli on panel, roughly 15 x 2 in. (39 x 57 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons, Original is in a private collection, image sourced form past Christie’s auction.

The soft light, informal pose and seemingly mundane subject matter might tempt us to think of this as a casual sketch, but it actually looks caresully ocmposed and executed. Tissot, noted for his paintings of society life, was well versed in the depiction of coltherng draperies and incidental furnishings.

I love the way he’s suggested the upside down and foreshortened. images on the scroll.

Lines and Color

Posted at 2025-10-19 23:29:04 | Illustrations | read on

House Of The Dead by Artem Chebokha

Cover illustrations for Nicki Pau Preto's book I made in 2024

OPEN FOR WORK: art.rhads@gmail.com
tutorial about my photoshop technique:
https://artstn.co/m/waxo
Prints:
https://www.artstation.com/rhads/prints

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Sketches

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Posted at 2025-10-08 12:17:23 | Illustrations | read on

"Outrenoir" by Artem Chebokha

Cover illustrations for Marc J. Gregson's books I made in 2024 and 2025.
OPEN FOR WORK: art.rhads@gmail.com
tutorial about my photoshop technique:
https://artstn.co/m/waxo
Prints:
https://www.artstation.com/rhads/prints

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Artem Chebokha on ArtStation

Artem Chebokha on ArtStation

Posted at 2025-10-06 09:33:34 | Illustrations | read on