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Eye Candy for Today: Pierre Guillemet portrait

Portrait of a Lady of the Court Playing the Tambourine, Pierre Désiré Guillemet, oil on canvas, 39×31 in. ( 96 x 79 cm), link is to Google Art Project, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons.

French painter Pierre Désiré Guillemet ws known for his pintings in the Orientalist style. Like many paintings in that genre, there is a fascination with the detsils of dress and an emphasis on how different it was from the European standards of the time. Novelty and the allure of different cultures were key to the appeal.

Guillemet has gone into the details and pattern of...

Lines and Color

Posted at 2026-07-30 23:51:02 | Illustrations | read on

New Plein Air Easels and Systems Special Featured Article

In the past I’ve done several articles on pochade boxes and other painting systems. I’ve tried to follow up with update posts as the things change, but I finally realized the usual post format wasn’t ideal for this.

So I’ve created a couple of separate permanent pages, rather than temporary posts, that consolidate what I’ve found. I intend to keep updating these as time goes on.

In this article on Plein Air Easels and Systems, I’ve tried to give an overview of most of the major commercial options that I’m aware of.
These are not reviews, simply overviews...

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Posted at 2026-07-27 22:26:29 | Illustrations | read on

Eye Candy for Today: Childe Hassam’s Water Garden

Water Garden, Childe Hassam, oil on canvas, 24 x 36″ (61 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Matropolitan Museum of Art.

The Met doesn’t provide large version of this image; I found one on masterapollon.com, a site that sells reproductions, from this page.

American Impressionism took many forms, Hassam is here using the broken color approach the French painters pioneered to great effect in allowing our eyes to glide over the irises bordering a lily pond.

Lines and Color

Posted at 2026-07-23 13:51:43 | Illustrations | read on

Bill Sanderson

Bill Sanderson is a freelance illustrator with a long career in editorial and comercial illustration as well as book publishing.

Sanderson works in the fascinating method of scratchboard, in which a specially prepared board is coated with ink, and the image is created by scratching white areas out of the ink with sharp tools.

While not a popular medium becsuse of the painstaking process required, not to mention the kind of reverse thinking of the light out of dark process, the results can be unique and quite wonderful.

In Sanderson’s case, he uses the medium in a style that...

Lines and Color

Posted at 2026-07-16 22:32:06 | Illustrations | read on

Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Streeton’s Australia Felix

Australia Felix, Arthur Streeton, oil on canvas, 35 x 59 in. (90 x 151 cm), link is to Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Australia Felix is Latin for “dortunate Australia”, referring to fertils plains in Western Australia.

Brilliant Australian painter Author Streeton, who was activein th elate 19th and early 20th centuries, gives us a grand sweeping view of the Australian landscape, but touched with nuances of suggested detail, like the houses to the left in the middle ground (images above, second down).

The logs and trees...

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Posted at 2026-07-12 02:18:03 | Illustrations | read on

"Virgo" by Artem Chebokha

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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Posted at 2026-07-10 12:25:59 | Illustrations | read on

New Pochade Boxes Special Featured Article

In the past I’ve done several articles on pochade boxes and other painting systems. I’ve tried over time to follow up with update articles as the market changes, but I finally realized the usual post format wasn’t ideal for this.

So I’ve created a separate permanent page, rather than a temporary post, that consolidates what I’ve found. I intend to keep updating this as time goes on.

I’ve tried to give an overview of most of the major commercial pochade boxes that I am aware of. These are not reviews, but simply overviews based on the information I can...

Lines and Color

Posted at 2026-07-07 19:36:58 | Illustrations | read on

Dragonwatching 🐉👀 by Daniele Turturici

Toward the end of spring, the ancient dragon Dorain begins his yearly migration to the cooler lands. If you happen to be there at just the right time, you can witness the full spectacle as he crosses the Montyr Mountains. Over the years, dedicated dragonwatchers have mapped out countless viewing spots along the route, always discovering new vantage points to catch a glimpse of this incredible event.

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