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Author: cparker

  • Ricardo Martinez

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    As I’ve pointed out in several previous posts, scratchboard, despite its close relationship to pen and ink, is a medium with its own distinct characteristics, and to my eye a particular visual charm. There’s just something about a well done scratchboard drawing, the patterns of white lines against black, that grabs my attention and lends…

  • Dominick Domingo (update)

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    Dominick Domingo is a concept artist, illustrator and live action film director whose visual development credits include Lion King, Pocahontas, Hunchback of Notre Dame and Tarzan. Since I wrote a profile of him in 2010, Domingo has recently turned his attention to writing, and his YA fantasy novel The Nameless Prince will be released in…

  • “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit” at the Cincinnati Art Museum

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    “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit” is a beautiful show about the terrific and under-appreciated turn of the 20th Century painter. It is currently on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum, where it will be on display until September 9, 2012. Unfortunately, the museum does not have much in the the way of online resources related…

  • Artist studios in 360°, Bradford Bohonus

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    I have an ongoing fascination with artists’ studios. I suppose it’s partly curiosity, partly looking for usable ideas and partly, I must admit, looking for confirmation that I’m not the only one whose working space is crammed wall to wall and floor to ceiling with drawing boards, easels, palettes, jars, tubes, racks, frames, shelves, boxes,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt landscape

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    The Stone Bridge, Rembrandt, on Google Art Project. Mouse over to use zoom feature at lower right. From the Rijksmuseum.

  • Pascal Campion

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    Pascal Campion’s illustrations are, quite simply, a treat. Campion rarely uses line, working directly in areas of color, sometimes augmented with textures, but his images are so fundamentally graphic that his springy, energetic compositions carry much of the visual charm of drawings. At the same time they have the atmospheric qualities of painting. Like Tadahiro…