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  • Shelly Wan

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    Shelly Wan is an illustrator, concept artist and gallery artist who works both in digital and traditional media. She is currently an artist for Pixar and also does work for Magic: The Gathering as well as comic covers and book covers. Originally from Guang Zhou, China, where she studied at the Guang Zhou Academy of…

  • Nick Patten

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    Room interiors, though a relatively common subject, have never really been treated as a separate genre like still life, landscapes or even “cityscapes”. Though they have a long history, and some wonderful painters are noted for them, such as Vermeer, De Hooch or Tarbell, room interiors seem to be most often treated as backdrops for…

  • Jim Madsen

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    Jim Madsen is an illustrator based in Provo, Utah who works in children’s books, advertising and educational software. Madsen has the kind delightfully springy and energetic style I usually associate with animation art, along with a sure sense of color and a clear faculty for narrative illustration. I was particularly taken with his beautiful illustrations…

  • Paul Bachem

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    Though I had encountered his work on the web previously and filed it away for a future post, I had the pleasure of speaking briefly with New York based artist Paul Bachem yesterday at the 2012 Wayne Plein Air Festival. Bachem has a crisp style, with lots of attention to edges and a physically textural…

  • Renee Lammers

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    I was at the Wayne Plein Air Festival yesterday, the most well known event of its kind in the Philadelphia area, and I had the pleasure of talking with several of the participating painters as they worked. One of them was Renee Lammers, a painter originally from Florida, now living in Maine. She paints her…

  • Eduardo Bajzek

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    Eduardo Bajzek is an architectural illustrator based in São Paulo, Brazil. He is also an avid location sketcher and a member of the Urban Sketchers International and Urban Sketchers Brazil communities. Though he also works in ink and pencil, when sketching on location Bajzek often works in markers, drawing/painting with them directly without preliminary line…