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Yu Qiuyang

Yu Qiuyang is a Chinese concept artist and illustrator, working digitally in Photoshop and Maya.

Throughout the work I’ve seen there is an interesting interplay between light and dark themes, the latter often punctuated with a pool of lighter color.

The subjects are primarily fantasy oriented, with a particular emphasis on what appears to be recurring characters of an anthropomorphized tiger and his companions.

Lines and Color

Posted at 2026-02-23 19:51:48 | Illustrations | read on

Anton Hartinger

19th century Austrian artist Anton Hartinger was noted for his still life paintings of fruit and flowers, and also was a botanical illustrator.

He was responsible for a noted work titled Endlicher’s Paradisus Vindobonensis (Endlicher’s Viennese Paradise – link is to the book reproduction on plantillustrations.org), consisting of handpainted prints (“chromolithographs”) of his botanical illustrations of exotic plants in the gardens and museums of Vienna.

Lines and Color

Posted at 2026-02-22 00:43:44 | Illustrations | read on

Eye Candy for Today: Alice Fanner landscape

The Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, Alice Maude Fanner; oil on canvas, 25 x 32 in. ( 64 x 81 cm). Image is from a Christie’s autcion in 2013; I assume the painting is currently in a private collection.

British painter Alice Fanner, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was noted for her landscapes, coastal scenes and cityscapes.

In this painting of the Luxembourg Gardens, she gives us an inviting view down the colonnade of trees along the green of the garden lawn, highlighted by a fountain in dappled shade and the sculptures that adorn it.

I love the turtles...

Lines and Color

Posted at 2026-02-15 17:40:38 | Illustrations | read on

William Henry Margetson

William Henry Margetson was an Engish painter and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is noted in particular for his full length portrayals of women, often in fashionable clothing of the time.

He worked in a variation of Victorian style, but didn’t often dwell on the historic or literary themes popular with many Victorian painters.

Lines and Color

Posted at 2026-02-14 00:41:58 | Illustrations | read on