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Ilya Milstein

Ilya Milstein is an award winning Italian-Australian illustrator with an impressive client list, currently based in New York.

Milstein has a clean, open style that pops with visual charm. While many of his images use traditional linear perspective, a number are in isometric projection.

This is a method of representing three dimensional space in which the elements are all at equal angles, the sum of any two of which is 120 degrees. While unfamiliar to many, this kind of projection is common in certain types of gaming.

Milstein uses it to effect in complex images filled with characters and detailed objects. He also...

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Posted at 2025-10-13 23:45:01 | Illustrations | read on

Eye Candy for Today: Idyllic Walter Moras Landscape

Speedwald Village in Autumn, Walter Moras. Oil on canvas, 24 x 39 in, ( 60 x 100 cm). Link is to MutualArt, larger image on GoodFon.

Yes, I know it can initially look a bit, um… picturesque (and yes, I know there are ducks), but I like it. The more I look at the large reproduction of this painting, the more it reminds me of the atmosphere and feeling of bright overcast Autumn days.

Moras has nicely controlled his values, and arranged the atmospheric and linear perspective of the scene like discreet planes to create an inviting sense of depth.

The nicely shadowed...

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Posted at 2025-10-12 01:25:57 | Illustrations | read on

Color woodcuts by Émile Antoine Verpilleux

Émile Antoine Verpilleux was an English-Belgian artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Though also a painter, he was noted for his color woodcuts with their subtle but striking use of atmospheric perspective.

He seems to treat the layers of distance in his images as distinct planes, almost like a stage set.

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Posted at 2025-10-10 20:32:47 | Illustrations | read on

Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Wyeth drybrush watercolor

Noah’s Ark Study, Andrew Wyeth, drybrush watercolor on paper. Original is in the collection of the Wyeth Foundadion for American Art, I don’t know the size. Image is referenced from a page on the site of the local PBS affiliate, WHYY. The full size image is here.

Starting in 2023, the Brandywine Museum of Art (AKA the Brandywine River Museum) i Chadds Ford, PA, began to mount exhibits of Aandrew Wyeth’s work drawn from the family Foundation’s collection, which includes some 7,000 works.

These are most often works on paper, which can’t be exhibited often, and many of which have never been...

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Posted at 2025-10-10 01:46:19 | 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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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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Posted at 2025-10-06 09:33:34 | Illustrations | read on

Minna Sundberg

Minna Sundberg is a Danish comics artist and illustrator with a lively, visually charming style.

In the illustrations featured in her DeviantART portfolio and the portfolio of her work on Character Design Reverences, I find a fascinating tendency to work with strategically limited palettes.

Sundberg is the author and artist of a number of webcomics. Several are complete, including Stand Still Stay Silent, A Redtail’s Dream, Lovely People and A Meandering Line.

As of this writing, she has one in progress Journey Upstream. The latter two are Christian themed.

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Posted at 2025-10-04 21:02:30 | Illustrations | read on

How The World’s Most Expensive Colors Are Made

This YouYube video from Business Insider goes into the history and making of several of the most expensive artist pigments and materials.

I found the first 10 minutes particularly of interest for going into greater depth than usual in describing the mining and refinement of Lapis Lazuli, the semi-precious stone used to make the original Ultramarine Blue – a pigment more expensive by weight than gold (as opposed to the inexpensive synthetic French Ultramarine Blue that we commonly use today).

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Posted at 2025-10-04 19:36:00 | Illustrations | read on