Month: June 2012
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Tibor Nagy
Tibor Nagy is an artist from Slovakia who paints his plein air landscapes and townscapes with brusque, rough edged shards and chunks of color. Over a base of thinly applied darks he layers thick paint, sometimes with a loaded brush and sometimes apparently troweled on with a painting knife. These applications are mixed in with…
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Arthur Rackham (update)
Arthur Rackham was one of the greatest illustrators of the turn of the 20th century Golden Age of Illustration, that is to say one of the greatest illustrators of all time. Though many are familiar with his beautiful illustrations for Rip van Winkle (images above, top), which established his reputation, and Gulliver’s Travels, as well…
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Ben Heine (update)
I first wrote about Belgian painter, illustrator and photographer Ben Heine back in 2010, when I highlighted his delightful series called “Pencil vs. Camera“, in which he draws a continuation or substitution for part of a scene, usually in pencil on a ragged edged piece of paper or card, and then photographs the drawing held…
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Jess and Russ
OK, now this is how you do an online wedding invitation. I can’t possibly do better in describing “Jess and Russ” than Scott McCloud did in his tweet this morning: “Another day, another stunning, collaborative, parallax-scrolling, infinite canvas wedding invitation.” Exactly. Collaborative refers to the contributions that the couple, both designers, elicited from their friends…
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D Eleinne Basa
D Eleinne Basa is a painter from New Jersey whose landscapes and florals can range from refined, as in her large studio paintings, to nicely rough edged and painterly, as in her plain air paintings. Her approach likewise can vary from softly tonalist to more straightforwardly realist. I was immediately impressed by Basa’s painting Fall’s…