Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt’s Sleeping Puppy etching

Sleeping Puppy, Rembrandt van Rijn, etching and drypoint, 1 1/2″ x 3″ (4 x 8 cm). This print is in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. From their page, you can zoom or download the large image.

This tiny etching of a sleeping puppy, hardly the expected subject for a Rembrandt etching, has an intamacy and warm feeling, leaving me to wonder if it was actually Rembrandt’s own dog.

Look at how Rembrandt’s seemingly casual hatching and cross hatching follows the contour of the dog’s body, and particularly the more sharply defined elements of the head.

The Village

Concept art for the TV series "The Village" based on the story by Kir Bulychev

Concept art for the TV series "The Village" based on the story by Kir Bulychev by Alex Andreev

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Debbie Tsoi

Debbie Tsoi is a concept artist based in Sweden. I don’t know if the exampl images I’ve shown here here are for specific projects, or for her own enjoyment.

Her work can be dramatic, but it often subtle, with a nuanced play of light and shadow. Her style has elements in common with certain genres of anime related art, and her environments in particular have a nice sense of some of the better anime background paintings.

Her subjects are sometimes fanciful, and she plays with unorthodox compositions, often placing elements and characters very much at the bottom edge of...

A few Autumnal paintings

OK, so I missed the 2026 Autumnal Equinox by two days, but I can still celebrate. Here are a few paintings of Autumn landscapes, mostly from the 19th century.

You can find many of them larger from this Wikimedia Commons page (scroll down and notice the link to “next page” at bottom).

Others you can look up easily enough.

(Images above, links are to Lines and Colors posts): Albert Bierstadt, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Ekaterina Junge, Frederic Edwin Church, H.A. Brendekilde, George Inness, Isaac Levitan, Claude Monet, Peder Mork Monsted, Alfred Smith, Tadeusz Styka, Frits Thaulow, Walter Moras.

Eye Candy for Today: M.J. Galt pencil portrait

Alex, by M.J. Galt, pencil on paper. I don’t know the size. Link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Library of Congress.

There is a character to this drawing, perhaps a feeling of confidence and definitive structure, that make me confident that it is an exacting portrait, an undeniable likeness.

I found the descriptions and accreditation confusing enough that I’m unsure; but I think the subject is the artist’s brother.

The face is both subtly modeled in the areas in light and sharply defined with value contrast on the shadowed side.

The artist...

Julian Merrow-Smith – Postcard from Provence (update)

One of my favorite contemporary painters is a British painter who has been living and painting in the south of France for many years.

In 2005, he became one of the earliest artists to adopt the practice of “Painting a Day”, (perhaps second, not long after the originator of that idea Duane Keiser). This calls for painting a small painting each day and putting it up for auction on his website, Postcard from Provence.

I first encountered his work and posted about him in 2006, and I’ve posted a few times since, but not for a while, so this...

Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Shotter Boys color lithograph

La Ste. Chapelle, Paris, Thomas Shotter Boys, color lithograph, 15 x 12 in. (38 x 29). Link is to the image page on Wikimedia Commons.

Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) was known for his urban and architectural subjects, both in watercolor and in lighographs. Here, in a color lithograph, he highlights the soaring 50 foot high gothic windows of the chapel and its dramatic buttresses.

There is a wonderful contrast between the darker stone of the main structure and the white stone that is apparently either being built or repaired. Look at the subtle change in value between the top...

Shallow by Alex Andreev

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"Virgo" by Artem Chebokha

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