Month: July 2011
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Everything is its own reward: An All Over Coffee Collection, Paul Madonna
Even before seeing it in person, I will without hesitation or reservation recommend Paul Madonna’s Everything is its own reward: An All Over Coffee Collection, the second collection of his remarkable feature in the San Francisco Chronicle, All Over Coffee. For more detail, see the review on Parka Blogs. For more of me raving about…
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Toon Books
Now here’s a terrific idea. Toon Books is an imprint of Candlewick Press dedicated to “Easy to read comics” aimed at early readers. Divided into three levels for grades K-1, grades 1-2 and grades 2-3, the comics are meant to be tools to encourage reading both in the home and in the classroom. Titles include…
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PaintWorks eMagazine, Summer 2011
I was provided with a review copy of PaintWorks, a new eMagazine from Interweave, the parent company of American Artist and their corresponding website Artist Daily. The debut issue of PaintWorks is Summer 2011 and the theme of the issue is “The Essentials of Still Life Painting”. The eMagazine itself is an application, with a…
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Calum Alexander Watt
Calum Alexander Watt is a concept artist and character designer working for a gaming developer in the UK. He started out doing comics work for 2000AD, and briefly worked in graphic design before moving into his current role. Watt starts with sketches drawn and inked in traditional media, using a blue mechanical pencil on tracing…
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Charles Willson Peale, Founding Father of American painting
Today is the 4th of July. Here in the United States, it’s a holiday on which we celebrate our freedom from having to spell the word “color” with a superfluous “u”. It’s also a day in which we celebrate the “Founding Fathers”, individuals who cast the documents and governmental structure on which the country is…
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Dean Cornwell magazine illustrations
Francis Vallejo points us to a wonderful Flickr set containing scans of magazine illustrations by the great American illustrator Dean Cornwell. Cornwell studied with Harvey Dunn, a student of the amazing Howard Pyle, and also with Frank Brangwyn, carrying forward the intensity, power and superb draftsmanship that were the hallmarks of those great illustrators’ work.…