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Month: March 2012

  • Jose Emroca Flores (update)

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    Jose Emroca Flores is an illustrator and a senior concept designer at Activision/Blizzard Highmoon Studios in California who has done work for companies like EA, Vivendi Universal and Nike and whose work has been featured by Spectrum, Computer Arts and the Society of Illustrators, among others. Since I last wrote about him back in 2007,…

  • Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape

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    Claude Gellée, also known as Claude Lorrain (from his birthplace, the Duchy of Lorraine, once an independent nation in what it currently northeastern France), or simply as “Claude” (rhymes with “road”), was the most important landscape painter in the 17th century, and one of the most important and influential in the history of the genre.…

  • Chuck Jones shows how to draw Bugs Bunny and other WB characters

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    Here are a few short videos (on YouTube) in which the ever brilliant Chuck Jones shows how he draws some of his iconic characters: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Pepe le Pew, Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner. “…learn how to draw a carrot, then you can hook a rabbit onto it.” “Depending on what our…

  • John Morra

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    Contemporary American painter John Morra paints elegantly refined still life canvasses of both common and unusual subjects. His website has galleries of his work in categories like Still Life, Food, Mixers and “Mertz” as well as Plein Air landscapes and Portraits. Morra says in his artists’ statement that he was influenced by Vermeer, and in…

  • Jean Giraud (Moebius) 1938-2012

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    I spent some time trying to select the right images for this post. I found the top one particularly appropriate; if there’s any artist that I associate with magic coming to life from the pages of a book, it’s French comics artist, illustrator and movie concept artist Jean Giraud, more commonly known by his pen…

  • Gabor Svagrik

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    Hungarian born Gabor Svagrik immigrated to the US with his family and studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He has also studied independently with a number of other painters. He now conducts workshops at the Tucson Art Academy, which he founded, and through that venue brings many well known painters to the…