Eye Candy for Today: Ole RIng canal view
Canal View at Wilders Square, Ole Ring, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. (60 x 76 cm). Link is to Uno Langmann art dealers for a sold item. Presumably this is currently in a private collection.
Danish painter Ole RIng, active in the early to mid 20th century, here takes a simple white boat, and by careful placement and the arrangement of surrounding colors, makes it irresistible to our eye.
The boat is positioned on the canvas with the bulk of the hull just to the left of center and at it’s own height below vertical middle. Centered – but not...
Stan Manoukian
Stan Manoukian is a French illustrator, cartoonist, designer and storyboard artist. Alongside his other projects, Manoukian is an inveterate monster enthusiast. The tagline for his website is ” Monster lover since 1969″.
His monsters and be cute or spooky and are often both simultneously. They are rendered with precision and enthusiasm in pencil, pen, duotone and sometimes full color.
There is a collection of his work available: Zoologia: The Art of Stan Manoukian (Amazon affiliate link).
Eye Candy for Today: Sargent’s portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan
Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew), John Singer Sargent, oil on canvas, 58 x 36 inches (147 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY.
The Morgan Library’s collection centers on rare books and manuscripts and a fantastic collection of old master drawings, but it does include a few paintings, and it’s fitting that this portrait of the founder’s wife should be one of them.
Sargent here displays his astonishing economy of notation. Look at the string of paint splotches that our eyes read as a golden chain, the seemingly simple brush marks...
Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art
Anton Seder was an illustrator, designer, art teacher and art school director active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who worked in a style that combined Art Nouveau, naturalism and perhaps a touch of magic realism.
The Animal in Decorative Art was a design resource, one of many published in the late 19th century, and featured a wide and wild variety of animals and related design elements. These range from the ordinary, like fish, birds, frogs and reptiles, to the fantastic, including fanciful variations on sea creatures and wonderfully imaginative dragons.
The link is to a page on the Public...
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.
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...
House Of The Dead by Artem Chebokha
Cover illustrations for Nicki Pau Preto's book I made in 2024
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Sketches
"Outrenoir" by Artem Chebokha
Cover illustrations for Marc J. Gregson's books I made in 2024 and 2025.
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"The Core" by Artem Chebokha
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Vanda Lehel. Back and Forth. 2025
Vanda Lehel. Back and Forth. 2025
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