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Month: February 2009

  • Ernest L. Blumenschein

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    Ernest L. Blumenschein, an artist who was integral to the Taos Art Colony that flourished in New Mexico around the turn of the 20th century and instrumental in forming the style we now associate with Southwestern American art, was originally trained as a violinist at the Cincinnati College of Music. After taking an illustration class…

  • Coraline Concept Art

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    Ever since I received my remarkable Coraline Mystery Box, I’ve been simultaneously looking forward to the movie and lamenting the absence of a substantial cache of Coraline concept and production art. I finally got a chance to see the movie; which I’m happy to say lives up to my high expectations; and my wish for…

  • Christian Faur

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    In the wake of two other posts on crayons as an art medium, I came across the work of artist Christian Faur who, among his other work in oil, encaustics, fabric and fiber, uses wax crayons as a medium in a completely different way. Using hand cast encaustic crayons (that are still essentially similar to…

  • Tiona Marco

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    Minnesota artist Tiona Marco does landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, still life, wildlife and botanical drawings, all in her medium of choice, Crayola Crayons. That’s right, good ol’ big yellow box of ’em, wax in paper wrappers, wears down to a nub in your hands, drew with ’em when you were five, Crayola Crayons. She doesn’t add…

  • Crayola Crayons

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    Ahhh, think about Crayola Crayons, those wonderful waxy knobs of color, wrapped in shreds of peeled paper, that for so may of us are integral to our first experiences in making art. Wax crayons are a fond symbol of childhood (and/or or child rearing) for many of us. That wonderful smell (is there a sweeter…

  • Zdzisław Beksiński

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    Zdzisław Beksiński was a Polish painter, sculptor and photographer known for his darkly dystopian fantastic realism. His intricately rendered images of other worldly or post-apocalyptic landscapes, often populated with deathly or skeletal figures, are heavily atmospheric, as if filled with a mist of miasma and corruption. He has a sequence of images of cathedrals dissolving…