Eye Candy for Today: Hugo Birger park scene
Park scene from Sevilla, Hugo Birger, oil on panel, 10 x 16 in. (26 x 41 cm). Link os to past auction page on Bukowskis.
In this small panel, !9th centiury Swedish painter Hugo Birger, who was likely influened by time he spent in the company of some of the Barbizon painters, paints a park secne in which he employs fresh, painterly brush work and naturalistic colors.
Marianne Stokes
Marianne Preindelsberger Stokes was an Austrian painter active in England in the late 19th eand early 20th centuries.
Her work was primarily figurative. Though many of her paintings are in oil, in her later career she favored egg tempera (as in the Madonna and Child image at top). In these she took stylistic cues from the early Renaissance, perhaps inspired by the Victorian Pre-Raphaelite painters who ware active at the same time.
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...
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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