Month: May 2010
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Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta was one of the best and most renowned fantasy illustrators in the history of the genre. Frazetta died yesterday, May 10, 2010 at the age of 82. Frazetta began his career as a comics artist, starting as a teenager as an assistant to other artists. He worked for smaller comic book publishers, producing…
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Dan Seagrave
Born in the U.K. and now residing in Canada, Dan Seagrave began his career with an album cover for a local band. That expanded into a series of notable covers for other bands, though within a specific genre. Seagrave has continued to produce art for music groups, but his intricate, intensely detailed and highly imaginative…
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Art Inconnu
Art Inconnu is a terrific blog that has been going since January of 2008, but one that I have been unaware of until recently. “Inconnu” is a word meaning a stranger or unknown person. Maintained by an anonymous “Curator”, Art Inconnu is devoted to “little-known and under-appreciated art”, sometimes obscure, sometimes just artists who seldom…
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Tyler Jacobson
California illustrator Tyler Jacobson recently graduated from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and has embarked on a career as an illustrator, with an eye to working as a concept artist for the film and gaming industries. His clients include Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons and Dragons, NBC, Texas Monthly and Simon and Schuster.…
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Ted Polomis
Massachusetts still life painter Ted Polomis appears to craft the arrangements of objects for his compositions with as much care and skill as he paints them. His subjects include vintage metal and wooden toys, the time-worn surfaces of which he renders with intimate fidelity, and “classic objects”, vases, glassware, fruit and vegetables, painted with exacting…
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Dominick Domingo
Before graduating from the Art Center College of Design, Dominick Domingo interned at Disney Feature Animation, training in numerous roles in the animation process. After graduating, he worked with them as a concept artist and background artist, in both Los Angeles and Paris. His credits with Disney include Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback Of Notre…