Month: January 2011
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Kekai Kotaki
Hawaii born Kekai Kotaki is an illustrator and concept artist for the gaming industry now living and working in Seattle. He is currently working as Lead Concept Artist on Guild Wars 2 for Arena.net. He has previously done work for Wizards of the Coast, Tor Books, Blur DC Comics, Fantasy Flight Games and Ballistic Publishing,…
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Harvey Dunn
The great American illustrator Howard Pyle was influential both in his own work and as a teacher whose ranks of students contained a generation of America’s finest illustrators. Artists like N.C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, William James Aylward, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Violet Oakley, Maxfield Parrish, Ellen Thompson Pyle, Olive Rush, Phillip Goodwin, Stanley…
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Adrie Hello
Adrie Hello ia a watercolorist based in Dordrecht, Netherlends. He paints townscapes of his city with atmospheric transparent watercolor and occasional touches of gouache. Hello often finds interesting subjects in streets and canals seen through mist or light rain, using soft washes of muted color contrasted with accented edges on the objects he wants to…
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The Wormworld Saga, Daniel Lieske
The Wormworld Saga is a new online graphic novel by German illustrator, comics artist and gaming concept artist Daniel Lieske. It is an adventure story centering on the memories of a young boy recalling a time in his life when the world of the everyday intersected with the extraordinary. The format is a bit different…
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Chardin: Painter of Silence
Still life, that genre of painting with a name that seems a contradiction in terms, is, in itself, quiet. Still life never receives the attention paid to more prominent types of paintings. Dramatic interpretations of Biblical, history or literary scenes, genre painting, portraits and even landscapes, overshadow it easily. Still life is the Rodney Dangerfield…