An Illustrator's Inspiration

I was first fascinated by his illustration for Cat Fantastic books. This one is my favorite.

Then I found the wonderful illustrations on Celestial Seasonings teas, and, sure, Braldt has done some work for them too. Here's White Pear Tea.

And here's "Table manners"... now, he doesn't only do cats, but he does cats so very, very well... and I love cats. :-)
But, look him up.
Here's his site and here's some pictures from Les Toil's flickr.

Femke Hiemstra

2012-01-10T10:24:00.000+01:00

So fascinated by these paintings...

Femtasia - blog
- pencil nerding

Femtasia - site

Bernhard Oberdieck

2012-01-09T17:25:00.000+01:00

This is made with colored pencils. Bernhard speaks about the work involved in illustrating books on his site.

Hans Arnold

2012-01-08T22:23:00.000+01:00

Hans Arnold was a Swedish illustrator, who died recently. :´(
His illustration to "My Dearest Sister" by Astrid Lindgren was what made me his fan.

He has illustrated horror stories and erotic stories as well as children's books.

Jeremy Enecio: Cover

2012-01-08T14:54:00.001+01:00

Visit his blog

" It seems nearly all of my illustration heroes have been supported by Playboy at some point in their career. Artists like Frank Frazetta, Yuko Shimizu, Phil Hale, James Jean, Sam Weber, Tomer Hanuka, Marcos Chin, Gary Kelley, Kent Williams, Robert Mcginnis ... all artists I attribute to greatly influencing my artistic development."
- Jeremy Enecio: Joanna Silvestri

P.S: Through "Stylish Illustrations" I found Rael Lyra... Nice!

Merry Yule!

2011-12-24T07:58:00.000+01:00

Some Christmas cards by Raphael Kirchner

Dylan Scott Pierce

2011-12-18T21:06:00.000+01:00

I've been watching his "monday demos"... and it's just amazing.

Kinuko Craft

2011-12-16T09:17:00.000+01:00

Kinuko Y. Craft (born 1940) is a Japanese-born American contemporary painter, illustrator and fantasy artist.

Omar Rayyan

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Omar Rayyan at Illustrateurs
Omar Rayyan's Etsy shop

Karol Bąk

2011-12-16T08:43:00.000+01:00

Fascinating... Karol Bąk is a Polish artist, born 1961

Chesley Awards and Isis

2011-12-16T08:32:00.000+01:00

I just learned about Chesley Awards. Here I am, 42, wannabe-illustrator for Fantasy and SciFi, and I just learned about Chesley Awards - and ASFA, too... I feel kind of stupid, but - better late than never, huh?

I was looking at Omar Rayyan pictures, and I found his "Favorite" that was "a potential nominee for best unpublished color work"

I love Omar Rayyan...

Anyway, I stumbled over this page (potential nominees...) and started looking into it, and found out that there is a Chesley Award blah blah blah.

Now, first on the page is Isis by Daren Bader.

Looks really nice at first glance, but... I don't like it. It's a bit too... Just... doesn't work for me. So I went for looking at other things he has done, found his blog, and then I found this...

Nice...

So, of course I went to look up Steve Huston and his sketchbooks... Ah.

It's lovely to see a sketchbook that's just as crowded and messy as mine :-D Of course, I'm not even close to this quality, but... I will be. In some 20 years or so :-D

If you look at all four pictures, you'll see yourself what's wrong with Isis. It's so finished it's dead.

I like this Isis by Willow Arlenea...

and this, by Kinuko Craft... I really need to give her an own entry.

Selene and Endymion

2011-12-12T09:00:00.000+01:00

Yes, they managed to depict young, beautiful men too in "interesting" situations "in the name of art and culture". Selene/Diana and Endymion is GREEK myth, it cannot be but proper and decent! :-D

Annibale Carracci

Johann Grund

Stefano Torelli

Ubaldo Gandolfi

Sebastiano Ricci

Pierre-Paul Prud’hon

Anne-Louis Girodet

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

This is his Iris and Morpheus:

Jérôme-Martin Langlois

George Frederic Watts

Simon Solomon

Edward John Poynter

Victor Florence Pollet

Walter Crane

Edmund Dulac

Magnus Enckell

Eldanis

Karl Briullov

Pavel Tatarnikov

2011-12-09T20:31:00.000+01:00

Such a delightful combination of le Cain, Klimt and Christensen...

Errol Le Cain

2011-12-09T19:51:00.000+01:00

Errol Le Cain (1941–1989) was a British animator and children's book illustrator.

I adore the little vignettes he puts around the pictures, borders, little details, funny little surprises and gifts sprinkled all over the work, which would be quite enough as it is...

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne; How Well We Suit Each Other

2011-12-09T19:40:00.000+01:00

So adorable... :-D
I wonder if there's a political message somewhere... Who are these owls supposed to be?

Remedios Varo

2011-12-09T19:30:00.000+01:00

Remedios Varo Uranga (December 16, 1908 - October 8, 1963) was a Spanish-Mexican, para-surrealist painter and anarchist.

Boris Kustodiev, Merchant’s Wife at Tea

2011-12-09T18:57:00.001+01:00

Vasili Nesterenko; Drinking Tea

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R.A.Stone; Witching hour

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L.H. Bonvallet; Les Paons

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Yoshitaka Amano: Witch

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Toshiaki Kato: Briar Rose

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August Riedel: Judith

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Jason Chan: Revelations

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Helen Jacobs: The Magic Mirror

2011-12-09T18:34:00.000+01:00

John Holmgren: Shawl There Is!

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Jessie Arms Botke: Peacocks

2011-12-09T18:15:00.000+01:00

American Painter, 1883-1971

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

2011-12-08T18:54:00.000+01:00

I was in Finland this weekend, and we went to Akseli Gallén-Kallela exhibition.
I was so impressed - once again - by his amazing landscapes and how he developed as an artist a lot during just 3-4 years! Amazing...

The exhibition was on the upstairs of the museum, there were Russian fin de siécle fauvists and abstracts in the lower floor. On top of the stairs they had put the Mäntykoski painting and... Oh my... it was impressive...

This was the first time I saw Demasquée and Mother with Sick Child together... and noticed the same couch, rya and guitar :-D

This is his portrait of Greta Ahlman... I love the detailed lace and the abstract background...

Brothers Detmold

2011-10-01T20:43:00.000+02:00

Charles Maurice and Edward Julius were twins, born in 1883. Charles killed himself 1908. Edward died 1957.

Paul Gustave Doré

2011-10-01T20:00:00.000+02:00

6.1.1832 – 23.1.1883
a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor

Gustave Dore is, to me at least, best known for his Bible and Dante illustrations. I love the graphic design of his images... as can be seen here: Paul Gustave Dore at Miscellaneous Pics

I didn't know of his color work until quite recently.

Gustave Dore at Art Passions

Reading the story in a picture: Dore's Saltinbanques

Anton Lomaev; Little Mermaid

2011-10-01T19:41:00.000+02:00

Sulamith Wülfing

2011-10-01T19:35:00.001+02:00

11.1.1901 - 20.3.1989
Sulamith Wülfing was a German artist, a daughter of Theosophist parents.

"As a child Sulamith had visions of angels, fairies, gnomes, and nature spirits. She first began drawing these creatures at the age of four. The visions continued throughout her life, and directly inspired her paintings."

"During World War II, the industrial area around Wuppertal became a bombing target, and Wülfing's house was destroyed, along with many of her paintings."

Letter from Pixar

2011-09-19T12:33:00.000+02:00

I am sick today. Fever, runny nose, sore throat... :-( Not fun. I have no energy to paint anything today.

Cory and Catska Ench

2011-09-17T16:33:00.000+02:00

I have to adjust this...

2011-09-17T09:55:00.000+02:00

This is after Ailera Stone's photography.

The artist I was supposed to be copying was Norman Rockwell, but... for some reason I decided to try photorealism instead. I don't like photorealism. Or I do... but... with a lot of fantasy involved. For example here, the girls' hair is not that shiny.
And I managed to make the third girl ugly. All of the girls are prettier in real life, but Brigita really came out wrong. Sorry about that, Brigita.
Also, it seems Gintaré's face is slightly twisted in my picture. None of them looks like themselves, and that is not a good thing :-D
The painting IS a bit yellower in real life. The paper is not blue-grey as it seems in the photo, but more cream-white. Nevertheless, the backgrouns is too light, their clothes are too light, their hair too red... Oh well.
Anyway, Norman Rockwell... I wasn't happy about the three pictures I posted in this blog. I think I feel intimidated by The Golden Rule...

I love it how the people standing behind the black boy gives him a halo...

BTW, I didn't know he actually tried a bit of illustration too... I mean book illustration. Here's a sketch for Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair. I love it :-D

Uh, back to what I'm trying to say here. So, I started second guessing my choice. First mistake. Then I started looking for an image I wanted to copy, and found either faults or intimidating qualities in each and everyone of them...
and then I stumbled over this: Norman Rockwell's Photo Realism.
Someone distainfully said he is disappointed, because it feels as if Rockwell was "painting by numbers"... Well... if you can paint by numbers like that, go ahead. Anyway, someone mentioned Alex Colville, and that lead me to Kill Your Idols!
Then, for some reason I decided to try my hands on Rockwell mockup... or something to that... as if I knew how! :-D I've enough troubles in copying a photo, and then to change the picture so that it becomes an independent image, and such an image that tells a story about ordinary people with a good dose of humor and compassion... I think that's why I love Rockwell. He's not only a masterly painter, he is kind to his subjects. He might make caricatures of them, but I would say he sincerely likes his models. I don't know if this was true or not, but I get that feeling as the observer, and that's what matters. If he hated people, he was even a better painter than I thought, to make me like the same people he hated...

Compared to Rockwell, my people are paperdolls.

But - I learned a couple of things this time too.
a) USE MORE COLOR!!! Keep painting and painting and painting, even though you are okay with it, even though you are pleased with it. It's not done yet.
b) even though there is black in nature - the pupils were black and so was the make-up - or black enough to be seen as black - don't use black in art. Especially I shouldn't :-D Because those black bits are about the ONLY places in my picture that has "enough" color, so compared to the rest, those bits pop out a bit too well. :-D As you see, the shadows under the hair are just as black, but there I used dark brown, and I'm happy about that. I should have used the same brown in the girls' eyes.
c) my husband told me, when talking about the kitsune, that I need to decide where the light comes. It's okay if it comes from one point or two or more, but I need to be aware of where it comes from and remember that already when I put my brush in water. I painted the girls' faces with skincolor to begin with. I should have started shading already there. I have been struggling to get their foreheads and noses white enough - because they are really rather white. But this would be okay, if I used the skintone as white, and added more color and shadows to the rest of the face, to make the skintone look white.

I also learned that a picture a day is pace too quick. I WANT to give the picture more time. This took... two or three days... perhaps four.

BTW, it's not bad. It could be a lot better, but it's not bad :-)

Edward Cucuel

2011-09-15T18:18:00.001+02:00

Edward Cucuel (American, 1879-1954)

Boris Diodorov

2011-09-14T14:12:00.000+02:00

More illustrations - in Russian - and here's more, also in Russian

And here's Vera Pavlova - no connections, except both are Russian fairytale illustrators.

Oh, crap, I suck :-D

2011-09-13T19:11:00.001+02:00

Ok - this is what I managed to create as the first day challenge work. You see the model here: Rudolf Koivu's Snow Queen. It's so bad I can't help but laugh. It's just bad. :-D
But it's a good thing :-) The only way from bottom is up ;-)

What I have written on the corner there:
- draw what you are going to paint properly first. Get down all the lines, crisp and pure, in their right places.
- Use more color. A LOT more.
Because, frankly, it's not just bad. There's a lot of potential there. I am able to learn and I will be better.

This is something I'm doing just for the fun of it... a Kitsune calendar... And right now it sucks too. The colors are all wrong, and the background is bad and what's with that white... I have no idea what to do with it. And it's really flat. Just areas of color... not much depth at all. It doesn't even look flat the same way as Japanese woodprints do... it just looks like someone has failed drawing a picture of a kitsune in snow under a pine tree :-D
Well... I suppose it's not done yet, and I need to keep adding layers and layers of color... shadows and light and I need to "embroider" the kimonos and then we'll see what we have, but right now it sucks and I don't know what to do about it, and I'm pretty tired with it. So - I'll let it stand for a while and keep doing my daily exercises, and learning things, and perhaps one day I'll know what to do with it :-)

The thing is...

2011-09-13T14:36:00.001+02:00

I love Wedgwood Fairyland Lustreware.

These cost a fortune, because everyone else loves them too...

The thing is...
I know how to paint china... ;-)

A. Duncan Carse

2011-09-13T00:03:00.000+02:00

A. Duncan Carse (1876-1938) was an artist working in Britain, of Norwegian/Scottish parents.
He illustrated the Hans Christian Andersen Fairytales and the Lucy M. Scott Dewdrops from Fairyland.
His son was the explorer Duncan Carse.

Ernst Kreidolf and Elsa Beskow

2011-09-12T23:46:00.000+02:00

Ernst Kreidolf (1863-1956) was a Swiss artist, who made picture books for children.

Elsa Beskow (1874-1953) was a Swedish artist, who made picture books for children.

Very similar, don't you think?

Then there's the flower fairy artist, Cicely Mary Barker.

Michael Whelan

2011-09-12T23:25:00.000+02:00

I love his queens... all the feathers and everything so nicely painted...
He has a site, Glass Onion, and has had that for a very long time.

Art Challenge

2011-09-12T15:04:00.000+02:00

I am really bad at DOING things. I have enough skills, talent and eye to make nice works, but I don't DO anything. It really is so that "done is better than perfect"... If you have DONE something, there's IS something, but if you don't DO, because it will not be good enough, or perfect, or just as you want it to be, or all that, there will be NOTHING.

Bah. Enough with big letters.

So - I decided to challenge myself.
I will pick 365 artworks I like, and then I will copy them, one a day.
I won't be able to copy them very well, because - hey, a day is a very short time when it comes to making art - especially illustrations and the art of the quality I like. To reproduce something perfectly is not my aim with this challenge, or exercise. The goal is to
a) learn to see what kind of colors, lines, compositions and subjects I prefer - learn my own style
b) get rid of the "I don't know what to paint" excuses
c) get rid of most of the other excuses. As I don't need to produce anything perfect, a sketch would be enough, I won't be able to excuse not doing it.

You see, the goal is to paint. I have never produced as much as I did when I was in school, and I have never developed as much as then. It's obvious to me - the more I paint, the better painter I am. I won't get better by WISHING I could paint.
Nothing I did in school was meant to be shown to anyone. I did most of it just for the fun of it, because I had an idea, because I wanted to see my idea on paper, and there were no-one else who could do it for me.

Also, if the idea of copying someone's work bothers you - don't.
Firstly, that was the way the artists learned during Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli all learned that way, and what is good for them is good for me.
Secondly, you are not claiming ownership of anything. You copied the composition, theme, subject, colors, lines, everything, from someone else. It's okay to copy.
I mean, this obsession with originality is probably one of the biggest obstacles in the way of wannabe artists. No-one is a master from birth, everyone has to learn, and humans learn by copying. Even the most original artworks are at some level copies of something, if nothing else, then copies of nature. Of course, you are to have some amount of originality when you become an artist, but we are not talking about people who ARE artists, but people who ARE GOING TO BE artists. You are a student, a beginner, a wannabe. Accept that fact, embrace it and use your right to copy :-D
(Besides, just think about Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. If they are considered not only artists, but some of the greatest modern artists... Geesh. It's okay to copy.)

Besides, I want to be an illustrator, not a "real artist". There is a difference.

AAAH! They did it again!!!

2011-09-08T15:22:00.001+02:00

The Folio Society "books you love to own", has created yet another lust object... I found out today.

Blue Fairy Book - illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk

Red Fairy Book - illustrated by Niroot Puttapipat

Green Fairy Book - illustrated by Julian de Narvaez

Yellow Fairy Book - illustrated by Danuta Mayer

Violet Fairy Book - illustrated by Bob Venables

and

Brown Fairy Book - illustrated by Omar Rayyan

I love computers :-)

2011-09-07T22:18:00.000+02:00

You know that computer programming has come a long way the last 30 years :-D I remember first finding internet in 1999... it wasn't much then, but it was already enough to hook me for ever.
Back at then... well... anyway, they have invented this facial feature recognizing programs, and this is being used in the internet, as "reverse image search". Now, I first started using Tineye, but today I found Google's version, and it has this delightful little feature "visually similar images"... Ooh... :-D I'm a kid in candy store!!!

It started with Ida Rentoul Outhwaite's Witch On Her Broomstick. Now, it's a very nice image. I received this as "visually similar images".

Lovely!
Then I have been at Pinterest a lot lately, and there I found "color palette generator". Now, that only works with images that doesn't have accent colors, but with this it would work fine.

Color hunter gives this palette

If you want, you can use colblindor to "name" these colors for you :-)
#221122 is for example Mardi Gras violet
#444455 is Gunpowder
#556699 is San Marino blue
#A3BCF5 is Pale cornflower blue
#7788AA is Ship cove blue

You can also try to find them here (Coloria) or here (Chirag Mehta; name that color)

and make the palette at COLOURlovers

There are several fancy and fun tools at COLOURlovers as well, like the pattern coloring and palette makers

and then idée's piximilar multicolr search lab, that will give you images that have the same colors...

and then there's the BYO image search lab...

Somehow I have a feeling that one could also use Polyvore's color tool and Etsy's color tool with this...

At the moment both are rather bad... But there might be some potential there... and then, if there was some sort of tool of choosing wallpapers and paint online by images or numbers...

Anyway, then you can play a little and create inspiration boards based on images...

Now... it was rather stupid of me to choose a picture with colors I don't like. I would hate that room :-D All those dusty lavenders and periwinkles and purple - brrr...

Nevertheless, back to business ;-)

Other pieces by Ida:

Unknown Chinese artist

2011-09-07T11:09:00.001+02:00

I have saved these to my computer some 5 years ago. I love the colors and Ertéisque style. But I don't know who the artist is.

They are signed, both in Chinese and Western style... I think the last name is Chan, but - I don't know. If anyone knows, I'd be happy to put it in here :-)

Fruitfulness

Full Bloom

Glittery Rain

Lady in Red

Mermaid

Catherine Hyde

2011-09-06T23:09:00.000+02:00

Catherine Hyde

Valéri Maugeri

2011-09-05T18:07:00.000+02:00

Karl Bang

2011-09-04T14:25:00.000+02:00

"Karl Bang was born as Bong Ka in Shanghai in 1935."

I used to appreciate his art more... now the "pretty ladies" bore me. They are just pretty, posing expressionlessly, frozen, and remind of dolls. The three last ones are better, though.
I do love the colors, the animals and such.

Vladislav Erko

2011-09-03T18:01:00.002+02:00

Illustration to Paulo Coelho's Alchemist

"Grafiikka" - printmaking: monoprinting

2011-09-02T16:28:00.001+02:00

Monotypes are done so that you create the artwork on a smooth surface, like a sheet of metal or glass, but also wood or paper is being used. Then you take a print from this. The second print is "ghost print" :-D
You don't create any permanent matrix, printing plate this way, you just want to get your hands to the specific result of printing.

Becky Fehsenfeld - Blue Lion

The paint blob butterflies are one example of this :-D

Alyssa Edmee Fanning

Monoprints are very much the same. "Mono" means one.
When you have a permanent printing plate and you ink it in a specific way, so the print is unique, then you have create a monoprint.

Jane Schwartz Gates

Most stamped ATCs are monoprints, as the stamp is being inked differently and pushed in different spots with each print made.

"Nice dash of paprika" talks about monoprinting with leaves

"Grafiikka" - printmaking: lithography

2011-09-01T15:53:00.002+02:00

Lithography is sort of opposite to etching and that stuff. You start with a smooth stone or metal, on which you draw the image with something greasy, and then etch everything that hasn't been drawn onto, and when you ink the stone, the ink will stuck on greasy bits, and not in the etched areas.

Caitlyn B. Alexander shows how it's done.

Edward Munch

Maurice Sendak

Eileen Mayo

Interesting part of this is, that when color lithography was invented in mid 19th century, they printed all the postcards, posters, ads and paper things, like masks and paperdolls with this method.

Mucha posters are lithographs. Just so that you know ;-)
Also the grand illustrated fairytale books that were one of the greatest inventions of the Victorian era :-D

(not really, but - I do adore Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham and the others...)

Also, the modern printing technique is in all practicality just another form of lithography. Even though you use photography and computers to produce the "stone" of flexible metal, and bend it into a cylinder for pressing, it's still the same idea...

"Grafiikka" - printmaking: aquatint

2011-08-31T15:16:00.000+02:00

Jiha Monn works on an aquatint plate

Alison Mackay

BillyLee Nye

McMillan - winter oaks and 4-plate misty morning

"Grafiikka" - printmaking: mezzotint

2011-08-30T15:10:00.001+02:00

David Ladmore shows the process of making mezzotint plates

"Grafiikka" - printmaking: etching

2011-08-29T14:44:00.015+02:00

Bridget Farmer shows how to prepare and etch a plate

Anders Zorn

M.C.Escher

Alfredo Zalce

I'm sorry, I'm not feeling well, so no more artwork. I might add more later on.

I am also aware of that these might not be etched, but a combination of different techniques... there's
- etching - you cover the plate with wax or some other stuff and draw the image on the wax, and then etch the surface of the plate with some acid
- dry needle - you scraft the plate with a needle
- mezzotint - you prepare the plate by thoroughly roughening it and then polishing the parts you wish to stay lighter.
- aquatint - you prepare the plate by spreading resin on it and then etching it, so has a distinct granular feeling on it. The image is then created by further etching the plate, or scratching it aso.
and then there's some more

all these produce different surfaces, but I'm not in condition to look into it closer. I'm sorry.

"Grafiikka" - printmaking: engraving

2011-08-28T12:57:00.000+02:00

Jack Baumgartner in action

Philippe Mohlitz

Durer's Knight, Death and Devil and a pencil drawing inspired by it, by Theodor Baierl.
I know it's not an engraving, but I like it, and I wanted to show it with Durer :-)

Copper engravers make stamps and money. This little elephant is about the size it was made.

This is by Czeslaw Slania, a Polish artist, who became to know as the stamp engraver of Sweden and court engraver :-) I love his stamps :-)

White line engraving from 15th century

"Grafiikka" - printmaking: woodcut

2011-08-25T19:23:00.001+02:00

I love the (often) black-and-white world of prints. In Finnish this type of art is called "grafiikka" - graphics.

First there was the woodcutting. Woodcutting is carving an image on a block of wood, and then transferring this image on paper with ink. Some woodcuts can be VERY finely detailed.

as James Grashow's prints show... Amazing work...

Margaret Burroughs - Black Venus

Xiang Silou - Residence Among Flowers

Yes, it is a woodcut.

A lot of my favorite covers and illustrations are made in woodcut,

like these by Andrew Davidson for Naomi Novik.

Rather Pauline Baynes-que by Wharton Esherick
So simple and perfect in its crudeness...

Cat-nap by Jacques Hnizdovsky

An Yumin

Dürer made his illustrations in woodcut... talk about intrigate and detailed!

Gustav-Adolf Mossa

2011-08-22T07:51:00.001+02:00

A French symbolist, 28.1.1883-25.5.1971

Odd Nerdrum: White Summer Portrait

2011-08-15T18:27:00.001+02:00

Harriet Halhed

2011-08-11T13:57:00.000+02:00

born 1850 in Tower Hill, Australia, died 1933 in London, UK

Lovely Victorian artist... wonderful use of paintbrushes and all, but it's practically impossible to find any pictures of her paintings! That's very upsetting.

William Merritt Chase; Portrait of miss Dora Wheeler

2011-08-07T14:16:00.003+02:00

Ferdinand Keller: Sheheredzade

2011-08-05T18:17:00.001+02:00

Jacques Poirier

2011-07-28T12:59:00.001+02:00

Jacques Poirier (1928-2002) was a French painter. His paintings were done in the realist "Trompe l'Oeil" style with a mastery and a poetry rarely seen in this genre.

Emile Friant - embarrassed child

2011-07-23T15:43:00.000+02:00

Albert Edelfelt

2011-07-21T16:12:00.000+02:00

Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (21 July 1854 – 18 August 1905)
A Finnish painter and one of my absolute favorites. He still makes me cry :´)

James Jebusa Shannon

2011-07-18T15:37:00.000+02:00

Sir James Jebusa Shannon (1862 - 1923), North American artist, was born in Auburn, New York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada.

Edward Robert Hughes: Heart of Snow

2011-07-17T15:24:00.000+02:00

Frank Cowper: Vanity

2011-07-12T15:23:00.000+02:00

Thomas Mackenzie, illustration for Aladdin

2011-07-09T18:14:00.000+02:00

Warwick Goble

2011-07-09T13:35:00.000+02:00

British artist, contemporary with Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac

Warwick Goble at JVJ Illustrators
At ArtPassions
The art of Pierangelo

Theodore Chasseriau; Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids

2011-07-05T15:22:00.000+02:00

Gyula Talos

2011-07-01T10:54:00.000+02:00

I can't find much information about this man, except that he lived 1887 - 1975, and perhaps was American, born in Hungary. At least he has a very Hungarian name. Gyula is pronounced "dew-la" and Anglicised would be Julius.

Summertime...

2011-06-25T15:48:00.000+02:00

Dorothea Sharpe - Afternoon walk

Madame Monet and her son

Frank Benson - Summer

Albert Edelfelt - Boys playing at the beach

Peder Severin Krøyer - Summer night at Skagen

Tokuhiro Kawai

2011-06-21T10:19:00.000+02:00

Yajuro Takashima

2011-06-21T10:06:00.000+02:00

Wlad Safronov

2011-06-09T14:56:00.000+02:00

Roza Goneva

2011-06-09T14:54:00.000+02:00

Carole Estrup: Calliope

2011-06-09T14:52:00.001+02:00

Gustav Klimt

2011-06-08T13:10:00.024+02:00

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter

Kiss and Claudia Veja's wonderful photo inspired by it

Giovanni Boldini

2011-06-08T08:45:00.000+02:00

a couple of other blogs
The Gold Book d'Odette
Box and Line
Onok-art

A couple of other paintings I think about when seeing this:

Albert Edelfelt and Finnish singer Aino Achté

Sargent and Madame X - that evening gown is very daring...

and Renoir's Umbrellas

All three painters are also my favorites as you can guess :-D