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Month: November 2009

  • Giovanni Boldini

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    Giovanni Boldini was an Italian painter and printmaker, renowned for his fluid, sweeping portraits of society women. He is frequently associated with John Singer Sargent, sharing some of his dramatic, facile brushwork as well as his international lifestyle, living and working in Paris and London for much of his career. Sargent and Boldini knew one…

  • Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist

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    There are hundreds of art instruction books out there, with a wide range of topics, approaches and degrees of value, but Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist by renowned painter, illustrator and Dinotopia artist James Gurney, is exceptional in several ways. Before I go too far, I’ll point out that although this is…

  • “Gifted Artist”

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    “Gifted Artist” is a charity art show and auction to benefit the Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital in Loma Linda, California. The event will be held on Saturday December 19th from 5 to 10pm at the CCAA Museum of Art in Rancho Cucamonga. The auction features work by a long list of concept artists, character…

  • 25th World Wide SketchCrawl

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    While I’m on the subjects of sketching and anniversaries (see my previous post about Urban Sketchers), this Saturday marks the 5th anniversary of the World Wide SketchCrawl. SketchCrawl is a drawing marathon, originally conceived by Pixar storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa, and modeled as a pubcrawl, but with art materials. Artists gather in groups in various…

  • James Tissot: “The Life of Christ”

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    As I mentioned in an earlier post, French painter James Tissot, known for his radiant images of turn of the century high society in Paris and London, devoted much of his later work to religious themes. He created an ambitious series of 350 gouache and watercolor paintings depicting the life of Christ, for which he…

  • Urban Sketchers turns 1

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    Urban Sketchers, a terrific group sketchblog that I wrote about previously here and here, celebrated its first year anniversary this month. Urban Sketchers is devoted to drawing on location in urban environments, and it has come a long way in the year since it was established by Gabi Campanario, an illustrator and journalist based in…