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Month: January 2014

  • Rick Taylor

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    Rick Taylor is a painter, illustrator and comics artist living in Mississauga, Ontario, just outside of Toronto. After working in watercolor for a time, Taylor moved into working in acrylic on canvas, in a process that involves layers of glazes. He brings from his experience as a comics artist and illustrator a graphic sensibility and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Froment’s Burning Bush

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    The Burning Bush, Nicolas Froment, 1476 On Web Gallery of Art. In certain circles in the Middle Ages, they revised the Old Testament story of God appearing to Moses in a burning bush, with Mary and Jesus in the starring roles. (And we think remakes altering the source material is something new…) Foment portrays the…

  • My articles for Painting.Answers.com: Nov – Dec, 2013

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    I have continued to write a series of articles on painting for Answers.com as their Category Expert Writer for that subject. Most of them are roughly split between “how-to” articles on painting tools and techniques, and history-oriented articles on individual artists, art movements and particular paintings. You can see my most recent contributions at the…

  • Peggy Root

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    Originally from Florida, where she studied at the Ringling School of Art and Design, Peggy Root went on to study at the Lyme Academy of Fine Art in Old lyme Connecticut, and now lives and works in Tennessee. Root paints her large scale oil paintings (perhaps 4×5′ or 122x152cm) on location. Like Monet, she brings…

  • Benjamin Carre

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    Benjamin Carre is a French illustrator, concept artist and comics artist. I’ve found little biographical or background info on him, but his website showcases his work in a variety if areas, including a few brief step-throughs of his digital painting process. I particularly enjoy his use of atmosphere and texture to convey mood, and the…

  • Ohara Koson

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    Ohara Koson was a Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker who was active during the shin-hanga, or “new prints” movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was noted for his prints of animal subjects, and in particular, birds, which he conveyed with a combination of visual poetry and Audubon-like attention to their natural…