Month: June 2013
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Nick Price
UK illustrator Nick Price is best known for the “Dr. Snuggles” animated series and related series of children’s books, the “Tau Ceti” children’s animated series and the animated feature “Simi & Laminas” as well as “The Wombles” books and others. He has also done advertising illustrations for a number of high profile clients and created…
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Eye Candy For Today: Roesen still life
Still Life: Flowers and Fruit, Severin Roesen Somehow, Roesen, one of America’s premier 19th century still life painters, manages to make this arrangement look simultaneously lurid, bizarre and naturalistic. I love the handling of the plums and the little droplets of water scattered about. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and zoom…
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William Timlin
William M. Timlin was an English architect, illustrator and painter who spent most of his life in South Africa. In addition to his gallery art and periodical illustrations, Timlin wrote and illustrated a personal book project, originally intended for his son, titled The Ship that Sailed to Mars. Timlin worked on the project for two…
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Richard Oversmith
North Carolina painter Richard Oversmith studied in Michigan at the Kendall College of Art and Design, and in the UK, at the Royal College of Art in London. He brought his experience back to his home state, and finds there, as well as in his travels abroad and elsewhere in the US, a range of…
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Remedios Varo
My stepdaughter recently wrote me while vacationing in Mexico and mentioned that she had encountered the work of an artist I might like, if I was not already familiar with her, named Remedios Varo. As it happens, I was not familiar with Varo, and on investigating (bless the internet’s glowing electronic heart) I’m genuinely surprised…