Month: August 2010
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Susan Murtaugh
After retiring from her 35 year career as a designer and illustrator, Michigan based artist Susan Murtaugh took up digital art, creating digital paintings in applications like Sketchbook Pro and Brushes on the iPod and Modbook (a third party Apple tablet computer) and now the iPad. Murtaugh doesn’t appear to have a website or blog,…
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Mark Selander
Concept and visual design artist Mark Selander studied industrial design in college, and took that experience to work for Will Vinton Studios (now known as Laika) creating models, sets and concept art, and then to Microsoft Games, where he worked as a concept artist for six years. He now works as a freelance concept artist,…
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They Draw and Cook
They Draw and Cook is a great idea, a series of short recipes submitted by illustrators and other artists who cook (or cooks who illustrate), accompanied by or in the form of illustrations, and served up fresh daily in blog form. The entries are varied in both illustration style and approach to food and drink,…
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Restoring Eakins’ The Gross Clinic
Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross, more commonly referred to as The Gross Clinic, is a painting with a history. The painting is regarded as the masterpiece in the oeuvre of Thomas Eakins, who was in turn considered the greatest American painter of his time. The painting has been described as the most important American…