Eye Candy for Today: Egyptian encaustic portrait
Portrait of the Boy Eutyches, Egypt, Roman Period, encaustic on wood panel, 15 x 8 in. (38 x 19 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
What appears at first glance to be a sophisticated contemporary oil portrait, is, in fact, an encaustic painting that is roughly 2,000 years old.
Painted in Egypt during the time of Roman occupation, around 100 -150 C.E., this is a beautiful example of the durable and non-yellowing medium of encaustic. Pigment is suspended in hot wax, often augmented with linseed oil, cold wax, egg yolk or resins, and applied to a wood panel.
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Nuclear by Alex Andreev
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Dugald Stewart Walker
Dugald Stewart Walker was one of the less well known American illustrators active in the early 20th century, basically in the latter part of the “Golden Age” of illustraion.
His style was in keeping with other great illustrators of the time, notably, I think, those from Europe and the UK, like Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Walter Crane, Charles Robinson, Harry Clarke and even Aubrey Beardsley.
Eye Candy for Today: Charles Ethan Porter watercolor still life
Still Life with Corn, Charles Ethan Porter; watercolor on paper, 11 x 17 in, (27 x 43 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Though watercolor and gouahe are common in botanical art, they are infrequently usesd for still life paintings. There’s something I particularly like about those that I’m familiar with, and it’s always a treat to come across some that are new to me.
Charles Ethan Porter was an American painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who focused primarily on still life. Though he also painted in oil, here he uses textural qualities...
Instantly disappearing dream by Alex Andreev
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"The Quantum Revelations" by Artem Chebokha
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Cover art for book by Stuart Heinrich
Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2026!
As I’ve done on every New Year’s Eve for the last 20 years(!), I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with one of J. C. Leyendecker’s New Year’s covers for the Saturday Evening Post.
In most of these, Leyendecker commented on events of the time, In this one he’s marking the arrival of 1926. The title is “No New Taxes!” and the New Year’s baby is chopping the tax bill in half. In the Revenue Act of 1926, President Calvin Coolidge actually reduced federal income tax and inheritance tax. (What a concept!)
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Granville Redmond (revisited)
Originally from Philadelphia, Granville Redmond became prominent as a California Impressionist, bringing the ideas of the Frensh Impressionists to the California countryside.
Like the French Impressionists, and their American east coast contemporaries, the California Impressionists painted on location, looking to capture the visual effects of light and color in the landscape.
Redmond was fascinated, in particular, by the abundance of California wildflowers, painting scenes of rolling hills ablaze with color.
Redmond was deaf from an early age, and studied at the California School for the Deaf. There, he was encouraged to pursue his artistic interests. In later life, he was a part time...
Feeding by Alex Andreev
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Eye Candy for Today: Durer ink drawing
An Eastern Ruler Seated on His Throne. Albrecht Durer, pen and black ink on paper, 12 x 8 inches (31 x 20 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC.
Durer was a master of painting, graphics and, of course, drawing. In this wonderful ink drawing, his command of line, hatching and cross hatching gives the impression of an image much more detailed than it actually is. His lines swoop and swirl, suggesting the depth of the folds, and the curves of the face and sharply define the sword and royal accoutrements.