Month: January 2013
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Francis Livingston (update)
Francis Livingston is a gallery artist and illustrator based in Idaho who I wrote about back in 2006. Since then his style continued to develop and change, exploring new themes. In his latest work, he floats animals through the skies, parks and large scale building interiors of New York, as well as placing other objects…
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Eye Candy for Today: Koekkoek Winter Landscape
Winter Landscape, Holland, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. I love these Dutch genre paintings that show folks walking, playing, skating and otherwise engaging in business as usual, particularly on frozen waterways, in the dead of Winter. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and zoom or download.
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Recipe Comix
Back in 2010 I reported on They Draw and Cook, a project in which illustrators and other artists contribute recipes in the form of illustrations. In something of a variation on that idea, food site Saveur has been running Recipe Comix, a series in which they have asked a number of comics artists to contribute…
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Ferdinand Richardt
Today is the celebratory inauguration of the President here in the U.S. (the actual one, as required by law, took place quietly on the 20th). In the news coverage of the event, I caught two mentions of art. One was the inaugural poem, “One Today” written and recited by Richard Blanco, in which he gave…
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Eye Candy for Today: Alma-Tadema scene
‘Twixt Venus and Bacchus, Lawrence Alma-Tadema. In the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Click “Explore Object” or Download.
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The Hotel Fred (Roger Langridge)
Roger Langridge is a comics artist living in the UK. He has several stylistic approaches, all of them idiosyncratic, all of them wonderful. His styles show influences from early 20th century newspaper comics artists like Cliff Sterrett, Billy DeBeck and Frank Willard to more modern artists like Will Elder, various suspects from 2000A.D, and other…