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Month: December 2008

  • Albert Edelfelt

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    Albert Edelfelt was born to a Swedish family living in Finland in the mid 19th Century. He found art training resources limited at the Imperial University in Helsinki, and went to the Antwerp Academy of Art to study historical painting for six months and then moved to Paris, where he found his artistic horizons broadened.…

  • Leong Wan Kok

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    Leong Wan Kok is a Malaysian comics artist and illustrator currently living in Kuala Lumpur. His wonderfully eccentric and at times intricately detailed images combine stylized, cartoon-like figures with intense rendering. His darkly bizarre subject matter is accentuated by his choice of a dark palette and lots of textural variation, and highlighted with accents of…

  • Shawn McKelvey

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    Shawn McKelvey is a California illustrator and landscape painter. Unfortunately, his three blog-based sites include little background information, other than to say he has been a freelance illustrator since 1988, with clients in the advertising, entertainment and toy industries. His commercial work includes children’s book illustrations, backgrounds and illustrations for licensed properties and board game…

  • Saul Steinberg: Illuminations

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    Saul Steinberg’s brilliant expressions in the medium of cartoon art have brightened eyes and tickled brains for the better part of a century. (See my previous article on Saul Steinberg.) Romanian born, trained in Milan and other cultural centers of Europe, Steinberg emigrated to the U.S. and became familiar to many Americans through his long…

  • Parka Blogs Art Book Reviews

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    In these days of increased reliance on web-based shopping, online book merchants like Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Powells offer much wider selections than physical stores, even large ones, can provide. (Though nothing still beats the personal selections made by owners of small, independent booksellers, if you’re lucky enough to have access to one.) The…

  • FM 100 Hue Test

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    The FM 100 Hue Test is a seemingly simple test of your ability to discern close hue relationships, a sort of “color IQ test”. The interactive is provided by x-rite, a company that makes Munsell-based color measurement products. It consists of four bands of small squares of varying colors. Each band represents a scale of…