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Month: December 2011

  • Marcin Jakubowski

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    Marcin Jakubowski is a freelance concept artist and illustrator who works digitally, painting his atmospheric images primarily in Photoshop. Based in Gdansk, Poland, Jakubowski works with a variety of clients in CG animation, TV shows and commercials. His website has examples of his illustrations, character and creature design and environments, as well as a section…

  • Marcia Burtt

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    Marcia Burtt is a plein air painter who has chosen to work in acrylic, a medium more often associated with studio painting, photographic realism and illustration than the immediacy of plein air. Her approach, however, makes it seem a natural choice; with fresh, bright colors and a distinctly painterly feeling, she captures scenes of waterways…

  • Scott Gustafson

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    Scott Gustafson’s richly textured and intricately detailed illustrations are steeped in his admiration for great illustrators of the Golden Age like N.C. Wyeth, Normal Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and Arthur Rackham. Though he has had numerous commercial clients in his 25 year career, his fondness for those great classic illustrations, and the classic stories they often…

  • Adoration of the Shepherds, Gerrit van Honthorst

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    I love nativity scenes like the one at top (with details below it), Adoration of the Shepherds by 17th century painter Gerrit van Honthorst, in which the infant is not just bathed in light, but seems to be a source of light, as if incandescent with the Holy Spirit. In this case the child appears…

  • Leyendecker’s Santas

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    Even though it was Thomas Nast who fleshed out the old fellow, pipe and toys in hand, Reginald Birch who gave his suit its colors and Haddon Sundblom who often incorrectly gets the credit (much as I like him), I still maintain that our modern concept and image of Santa Claus owes more to J.…

  • Dutch Winters at Schiphol

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    Also in keeping with the Winter Solstice (see my previous post), the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has mounted an exhibition of 19th Century Dutch paintings of winter that will be on exhibit at the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol from 21 December 2011 to 26 March 2012. The museum’s page for the exhibition doesn’t directly link to the…