Eye candy for today: Johannes Verspronk portrait

Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer, Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, oil on canvas, 41 x 31 in. (104 x 79 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image.

I hadn’t heard of 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Verspronk until I came across this painting while browsing the National Gallery site.

The portrait grabbed my attention with its striking persence and dimenaionality, the latter largely accompished by the extended elbow and the overall value structure, which thrusts the figure forward into the light out of the dark background..

Meticulous attention is...

Ceramic prints by Sheng Lam

Something a bit different, I opened up a print shop!

https://www.blueduckleaf.com/

Was a fun personal project going doing more marketing and setting things up. Thanks to https://www.artstation.com/aureliahilary for helping out with everything!

Currently only shipping to UK/EU and USA/CA, because shipping to other places is expensive at the moment, but I'm actively working on a way to ship it to other countries for a lower price.
I will make an announcement in the next few weeks when it's ready.

Thanks for checking it out!

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Lynn Boggess (update)

I first wrote about West Virginia painter Lynn Boggess back in 2014. As an introduction, I will quote myself from that post:

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In writing about painters who work with thick impasto (such as Antonio Mancini), I have sometimes used “troweled on” as a metaphor to describe the heavy application of paint. In the case of West Virginia painter Lynn Boggess, however, “troweled on” literally applies to his painting method.

Boggess works in a manner associated with painting knives; and though he does use large painting knives at times, he works at such a scale that cement trowels of varying sizes are among...

Eye Candy for Today: Jasper Cropsey’s Autumn – On the Hudson River

Autumn – On the Hudson River, Jasper Francis Cropsey, oil on canvas, 60 x 108 in. (152 x 275 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Aart, DC, which has both a zoomable image and a downloadable high res file available.

Cropsey was a 19th century American architecht and first generation Hudson River painter known for his colorful and dramatic views of mountains and valleys, particularly when arrayed in bright fall foliage.

This painting is considered his landmark work, painted in the studio from memory, notes and sketches. It’s common to talk of landscape paintings as haveing a morefgound, middleground...

Metronomicon. Spetsbiotech by Alex Andreev

Illustrations for the second volume of the Metronomicon universe artbook series, based on my artwork.

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Metronomicon. Spetsbiotech.

Illustrations for the second volume of the Metronomicon universe artbook series, based on my artwork.

Oliver Bonhomme

Oliver Bonhomme is a French illustrator and art director with a long client list that inludes le Monde, the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Apple and numerous others.

His illustrations look at first to be high in chroma, but then you realize the colors are not actually that intense, but are made to appear so by the artful juxtapositon of complimentary colors.

His subjects are often imaginative and surreal, but sharply delineated and graphically strong.

[Via Richard Solomon, Artist Representative]

Eye Candy for Today: Martin Heade orchid

Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, Martin Johnson Heade, oil on wood, 14 x 18 in. (35 x 46 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of art, DC. which has a large downloadable image.

Though he also painted wonderful landscapes, Martin Heade’s standout subjects are his portrayals of exotic flowers and birds. Here, he sets a striking pink orchid against a mist enshrouded forest, and includes three rare hummingbirds and a nest with eggs.

Angela Hao

Angela Hao lives and works in the U.S., but makes virtual visits to Japan via Google Street view, capturing the charm of small, quirky storefronts in digital ink and watercolor style illustrations she creates in Procreate.

These are delightlfully whimsical and take note of the small details that give each little store its own personality.

She has prints available on inPrint.

Via My Modern Met

constellation by Alex Andreev

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