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Month: April 2009

  • Free Comic Book Day 2009

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    Once again, the first Saturday in May, this Saturday, May 2, 2009, is (Hooray!) Free Comic Book Day! Comic book shops across the U.S. will offer a number of free comics, published specially to be given away as examples of the publishers’ lines. Many shops also hold creator signings, sales and other special events. For…

  • William Stout: Prehistoric Life Murals

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    We live in a wonderfully weird world, in which life has taken forms more spectacularly bizarre and varied than the imaginings of any fantasy or concept artist (which, given the talents of many of those amazing artists, is saying something). Nature has provided us with a record of some of the wildest experiments of the…

  • Marc Taro Holmes

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    I came across the work of Mark Taro Holmes when I was struck by these two watercolor sketches on the Urban Sketchers blog. They were from his participation in the recent Sketchcrawl in San Francisco (see my posts on a previous Sketchcrawl, and here). I then looked him up and found his sketch blog, SKETCHtaro,…

  • Steven Assael

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    Steven Assael is a New York artist who paints and draws figurative works that feel simultaneously sharply focused and viscerally textured. Assael also looks for texture of another sort, in the vivid personalities of his subjects, often drawn from the enthusiasts in the body art subculture and carrying their own secondary visual texture in the…

  • Wall Art Acura TV Spot

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    Working with lead artists David Whittle and Sainty (Henry St. Leger), who are known as street artists, directors Ben Foley and Chris Hopewell created a 30 second television commercial for Acura called Wall Art in which the car is shown in an animated environment. What you might assume at first to be CGI, compositing the…

  • Theft of the Mona Lisa

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    In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of a noblewoman, titled Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, sometimes titled La Gioconda, and known popularly as the Mona Lisa, was stolen from its place in the Louvre in Paris. The event caused an enormous stir, eclipsing for a time talk of an impending war,…