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Month: October 2008

  • Wang Hui

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    Wang Hui was a Chinese painter who gathered up influences from past masters and wove them into his own interpretation of their methods and techniques; and refreshed the traditions of Chinese painting in the process. Active during the early Qing period (17th Century), Wang was exposed at an early age to the influence of some…

  • SketchCrawl 20

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    As I noted when I first wrote about it back in 2005, SketchCrawl is a series of outdoor group drawing events, originally conceived by Pixar artist and illustrator Enrico Casarosa, as the artistic equivalent of a pubcrawl (seem my post on Enrico Casarosa, and here). He started to organize the events ahead of time, in…

  • Shy the Sun: Bakers Animation

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    Shy the Sun, the South African animation production company formed around the talents of Ree Treweek and Jannes Hendrikz from the Black Heart Gang, has produced a new animated TV spot, this one for Bakers Precious Biscuits. See my previous post on Shy the Sun’s Sea Orchestra spot for United Airlines. The new spot dovetails…

  • Postcard from Provence
    (Julian Merrow-Smith)

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    Back in 2005 I found myself writing an arts oriented blog; partly because I enjoyed writing it, and partly because in the process I was discovering terrific artists I wouldn’t have sought out or encountered otherwise. One of them was Duane Keiser, who had originated the “painting a day” blog concept; painting daily postcard-size paintings,…

  • David Cox

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    David Cox is best known as a superb watercolorist during what was considered the “Golden Age” of watercolor (or watercolour, if you prefer the English spelling); though he also produced many drawings, and later in his career took up oil painting in addition to watercolor. Cox was the son of a blacksmith, and would have…

  • Björn Hurri

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    Björn Hurri is an artist who, according to the sparse biographical information on his web site, will “soon live in the UK” and work for the gaming company Creative Assembly. Hurri also does freelance illustration, and indulges in imaginative exercises for his own amusement; one of which is his series of steampunk versions of Star…