Month: May 2006
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La Gioconda (The Mona Lisa),
flipped for your viewing pleasureSometimes the hardest things to see are the things that are in front of us most often. The familiar, the commonplace and the clichéd pull a veil over our eyes that dull us to their real appearance. So it is with Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait of a wealthy Florentine woman, most likely Lisa Gherardini,…
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Will Elder
It’s tempting to think of the comics art form as being most closely related to illustration. It is composed, after all, of drawn images. In reality it is much closer to its celluloid and electronic relatives, film and television. This is not because of the cross-over combination of animated cartoons, but because of the more…
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Chris Moore
Clarity is something we all hope for when thinking about the future. Clarity is also an ideal that some artists, notably science fiction artists, strive for when depicting the future. Chris Moore is a British illustrator whose visions of other words and other times are focused to razor sharpness. His sci-fi work has a refined,…
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handprint : watercolors and
watercolor paintinghandprint is the personal site of Bruce MacEvoy. The home page displays an unlabeled group of eight graphic symbols reflecting entry points to the sections of the site, which are a rather bizarre amalgam of his personal interests, from literary experiments to essays on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, human evolution and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. One of…
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Paul Gillon
I learned from The Comics Reporter that Paul Gillon’s 80th birthday was last Thursday (May 11, 2006). Gillon has a long and distinguished career as one of the preeminent creators of bandes desinnées – French comics (literally: “strips of drawings”). Along with Jean Giraud (Moebius), Gillon was one of the first artists I encountered when…
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Worth 1000
I love living in the digital age. I truly do. Not only do I get to use the internet, paint with electrons and listen to a huge selection of music, I get to reap the benefits of other people indulging in the use of digital image editing tools. Most often that means professionals creating digital…