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Month: February 2010

  • Stephen Harby

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    Stephen Harby is a working architect and lifelong student of architectural history with a passion for travel and sketching architecture. Harby took a sabbatical from the architectural office in which he had been working for many years and devoted it to travel and sketching, and in the process moved to watercolor as his preferred medium…

  • Rome After Raphael

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    Old master drawings are a challenge for conservators. Fragile and damaged over time simply by exposure to light, drawings cannot be placed on permanent display, or even frequent display. Every period of exposure to light must be considered, in effect, a time subtracted from the life of the drawing. Also, drawings, even those by great…

  • Jonatan Cantero

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    I don’t know much about Jonatan Cantero; his blog doesn’t have much in the way of biographical information. He is a young illustrator living in Barcelona, Spain, and is apparently working toward a career in comics, though not yet published in the field. His blog and deviantART page have some examples of his work, many…

  • Eric Fortune

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    Illustrator and gallery artist Eric Fortune creates images that are at once fantastical and emotionally immediate. His subjects, often elongated and in motion, seem isolated but straining to connect, adrift in worlds just beyond their understanding. His paintings, are done in acrylic on watercolor paper, and always have a strong element of texture, complimenting his…

  • Editorial Drawings of Winsor McCay

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    Even among fans of his comic art masterpiece, Little Nemo in Slumberland (a group of whom I count myself an ardent member), few people are aware of the editorial cartoons of Winsor McCay. During his stints as cartoonist for The Cincinnati Enquirer and The New York Herald, and through syndicated work for the Hearst papers,…

  • Christine Lafuente

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    Christine Lafuente studied at Byn Mawr College, The Barnes Foundation and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and is continuing her study at Brooklyn College in New York. Lafuente blurs the line between representational and non representational painting, and moves further over it than I am usually inclined to follow; but her use of…