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Month: July 2010

  • Danny van Ryswyk

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    Danny van Ryswyk is an artist from the Netherlands. When I originally wrote this post he was painting high-chroma, detailed still life subjects using the techniques of the Dutch masters, painting on mahogany wood panels. In an interesting turn of artistic direction, he is now working in monochromatic digital media in the vein of pop…

  • Grzegorz Wróbel

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    Grzegorz Wróbel is an architectural designer from Poland. He paints street scenes and, as you might expect, architectural subjects, in beautiful crisp watercolor paintings. He evidently developed a drawing and watercolor style for the purpose of architectural presentation, but also engages in watercolor painting of existing scenes, either for his own satisfaction or as gallery…

  • Sci-fi illustrations by Shigeru Komatsuzaki

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    Let us celebrate the wonderful cheesiness and eye-popping kid-allowance-bait futurism of these 1960’s and 70’s magazine and plastic model kit box illustrations by Japanese illustrator Shigeru Komatsuzaki. Giant destroyer robots! Undersea super tunnel! Space Train! Thunderbirds! And, of course “Frog car boat”! Not only has the Pink Tentacle blog made these marvels available for your…

  • Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg

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    Apparently movie directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are both avid collectors of the work of the great American illustrator Norman Rockwell. Unlike those of us who might indulge in a fondness for Rockwell by collecting old Saturday Evening Post covers, Lucas and Spielberg can afford to collect Rockwell’s originals, and have done so extensively.…

  • Machinarium

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    Machinarium is a point-and-click adventure game with a unique look; the product of hand drawn environments and characters by artists from Amanita Design. The game, as far as I understand it, involves moving a small robot through a series of environments in search of something. The images have a wonderful quality of texture, imaginative design…

  • Terence Tenison Cuneo

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    Like many young boys, I developed a fascination with trains when I quite young, and never completely lost it as an adult. I still find trains and train travel fascinating and possessed of their own aesthetic; huge gleaming machines, spouting grease and sparks, barreling through the night on slivery rails, carrying freight, passengers and the…