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Eye Candy for Today: – Sota l’Ombrella (Under the Parasol) by Lluís Masriera

Sota l’Ombrella (Under the Parasol), by Lluís Masriera i Rosés; oil on canvas, roughly 35 x 51 in. (90 x 131 cm); Link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.

Spanish painter Lluís Masriera, who was active in the late 19th snd early 20th centuries, give us the equivalent of a bright splash of fall color, but in the summer, at the beach, under a brightly colored umbrella.

If you look closely, you can see some marvelous, subtle mixtures of color in the white fabrics on the women.

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Posted at 2025-11-03 22:22:14 | Illustrations | read on

Eye Candy for Today: Bierstadt Autumn landscape

Autumn Woods, Albert Bierstadt, Oil on linen, roughly 54 x 94 in. Link is to image page on Visual Elsewhere, large image here. Original is in the collection of the New-York Historical Society.

I had the pleasure of seeing thie painting in person a few yars ago in a show of Hudson River School paintings at the Allentown, PA Art Museum.

At four and a half by almost eight feet, it’s a large painting and wonderfully immersive when you stand in front of it.

Beautiful fall colors and detailed naturalism aside, look for a minute at the values (light and dark) in this...

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Posted at 2025-10-30 19:32:37 | Illustrations | read on

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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Posted at 2025-10-21 10:01:01 | 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