Month: June 2011
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Joe Banana’s “The Rocketeer 20th Anniversary”
As someone who very much enjoyed Dave Stevens’ comic book The Rocketeer, and the Republic Pictures 1950’s Commando Cody serials, to which Steven’s character was a loving homage, I couldn’t help but like 3-D animator Joe Banana’s The Rocketeer 20th Anniversary, which is in turn a homage to Steven’s character and the underrated 1991 Disney…
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Nina Johansson
Swedish artist, designer and teacher Nina Johansson subtitles her website “Because drawing is good for you”, and its pages are filled with the ripe, healthy fruit of that philosophy, lots of wonderful drawings, sketches and watercolors. Johansson seems to take as her favorite subject that most perfect of all drawing subjects — what’s in front…
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Joe Fenton
Joe Fenton started in sculpture, moved into concept art for the film industry and then transitioned into children’s book illustration. He also creates the large scale drawings shown above, which I assume are gallery pieces. For these, Fenton works initially in a detailed graphite drawing, then works over that in ink and acrylic or gouache.…
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Vincent or Theo?
It has long been assumed that Vincent van Gogh never painted a portrait of his brother Theo, despite the number of self-portraits he completed during the two years he lived with Theo in Paris. Now researchers at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, think they have determined that the presumed self-portrait at right, above, is…
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Four Go Painting in Provence
In what would surely count as a dream painting excursion in the eyes of many artists, myself included, four painter/bloggers who are familiar to many, Katherine Tyrrell, Sarah Wimperis, Robyn Sincliar and Ronelle van Wyk, arranged a joint painting trip to Provence in the south of France. With the exception of Van Wyk, who could…
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Illustrator Shaun Tan Draws Conclusions on Spiegel Online
In a delightful twist on the usual interview format, Australian illustrator, author and concept artist Shaun Tan replies to a series of interview questions on Spiegel Online with pictures instead of words. The images have a little magnifier icon for viewing them larger. See my previous post on his beautiful wordless graphic story The Arrival.…