Sleep by Alex Andreev
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David Hohn
David Hohn is an illustrator living and working in Portland, Oregon. His works have a lively, energetic character that lends itself well to children’s book illustration.
With a generally bright palette, nicely stylized drawing and a sure sense of value and atmosphere, he conjures scenes from stories both classic and modern.
His website includes a portfolio of work, a range of his book covers and a selection of his illustrations available as prints.
Summer at the beach with Joaquin Sorolla
Spanish Painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, loved to paint at the beach in his native city, Valencia. At times, he would set up a kind of wind and sun break with sheets strung between poles arranged as walls on three sides of his easel.
Here’s an array of Sorolla’s sun-drenched beach scenes (by no means comprehensive) to start off the summer.
These images came from a variety of sources. Rather than trying to give you links, I’ll just suggest you search Wikimedia Commons, Google or Bing images.
While in most places along...
Eye Candy for Today: Hal Foster Prince Valiant comics panel
I place comics artist Hal Foster, creator, author and artist of the early to mid 20th century Prince Valiant newspaper comic strip, among the greatest pen and ink artists of the last two centuries
The Prince Valiant strip in its heyday was given a full comics section page. Here, in a single panel from a multi-panel page, we have a dramatic example of his skill, not only in draftsmanship and rendering, but in economy of notation.
At bottom we see an indication of how this panel would have appeared printed in a color Sunday comics section, with stark complimentary colors adding to...
Infiltration by Alex Andreev
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Benjamin West’s portrait of King George III of England
Portrait of George III, Benjamin West, oil on canvas, roughly 100 x 72 in. (255 x 183 cm), in the collection of the Royal Collection Trust.
American born painter Benjamin West, successful in the US, and specifically here his home state of Pennsylvania, moved to England after a European tour at the age of 25, where he became a founder of the Royal Academy of Arts and a favored portraitist to the king.
In this life-sized portrait, the ruling monarch of Great Britain is dressed in his soldierly uniform and presented as a strong, forceful military commander, with outlines of troop deployment...
Paint List
Paint List is an independent artists’ paint testing, review and information website and YouTube channel created by Melissa Carmon and Jonathan Myers.
I’m not sure how I was unaware of this until now; there is quite a bit of accumulated material, though the YouTube channel was only started two years ago.
This is an excellent, well arranged, highly searchable and useful index of artists’ paint information that can be accessed an a number of ways.
From the home page you can search for a brand, pigment name, or pigment index code, and sort initially by medium. Once with a search you can click...
Eye Candy for Today: Joseph Bail genre scene
Young kitchen boy playing with a cat, Joseph Bail; oil on canvas; roughly 43 x 28 inches (109 x 71 cm); I don’t know the location of the original, the link is to a gallery site, through which the painting evidently passed at one time, so my assumption would be that it’s in a private collection.
I share with 19th century French painter Joseph-Claude Bail his obviously intense admiration for 18th century French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin.
You can see the similarities in his frequent subject matter of simple kitchen themed genre paintings, his strong contrast between dark and light and his beautiful...
Dungeon ⚔️🎲 by Daniele Turturici
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A Quick Break 🌧 by Daniele Turturici
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