Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Hassam’s Rainy Day
Rainy Day, Boston, Childe Hassam. “American Impressionism” (i.e. painterly realism) in the hands of one of its foremost proponents. On Google Art Project. Click in lower right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Toledo Museum of Art.
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illustrators magazine
illustrators is a new quarterly illustration art magazine from the UK. For those familiar with magazines like ImageS, Illustration and illo (links to my posts), this is a welcome addition to the small range of quarterly publications dedicated to showcasing illustration, both contemporary and classic. In this case it is with a UK and European…
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Stephen Gilpin
Stephen Gilpin is a Kansas based illustrator whose clients include Harper Collins, Random House, Simon and Schuster, Scholastic and the Wall Street Journal. He has a fresh, crisp, cartoon illustration style well suited to his work in children’s book illustration. He strikes a nice balance between rendering and flatter areas of color, while keeping the…
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Healy’s Lincoln
Today is “Presidents’ Day” here in the U.S. Originally it was a celebration of the birthday of first president George Washington. A later holiday celebrating the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, also in February, was folded in, the day was moved to a Monday in the general vicinity of the dates, made a postal holiday and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carlson woodland scene
John F. Carlson (unknown title). Photo by Justin Wisniewski, from his blog. See my post on John Fabian Carlson.
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The Art of Illustration, PBS Off Book
The Art of Illustration is a 7 minute video feature that includes a (very) brief history of illustration from moderator Steve Guarnaccia, and short interviews with illustrators and comics artists Yuko Shimizu, Sean Murphy and Molly Crabapple (above, top to bottom). It is one episode of the continuing PBS web video series Off Book (also…