Author: cparker
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Maurice Sendak 1928 – 2012
Maurice Sendak, one of the premiere book illustrators of the late 20th/early 21st centuries, died today at the age of 83. Unfortunately, I don’t know of a large repository of his work on the web. The Rosenabch Museum and Library, a small museum here in Philadelphia, houses the preeminent collection of his works, and has…
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Harry Clarke
Harry Clarke was a Irish illustrator and stained glass artist, active in the early 20th Century, in the latter part of the Golden Age of Illustration. As an illustrator, he is known in particular for his work for Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales and Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination. You can see…
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Free Comic Book Day 2012
Here in the U.S., tomorrow, Saturday, May 5, is Free Comic Book Day, a yearly opportunity for those who love comics to pick up some free promotional titles prepared by publishers large and small to promote their lines. More importantly, it’s an opportunity for those who aren’t familiar with the current state of comic books…
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Derek Penix
Artist Derek Penix came from a family in which his mother and grandfather both painted, and took it up himself after high school. He says his admiration for painters like Nicolai Fechin, John Singer Sargent and the French Impressionists has been superseded as his primary influence by his studies with contemporary painter Quang Ho. Penix…
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The Boundaries of Life and Death
The Boundaries of Life and Death is a very short (one minute), beautifully realized black and white animation by Saskia Kretzschmann. It is based on a quote by Edgar Allen Poe: “The Boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other…
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Brad Kunkle
Gold is an extraordinarily malleable material. When hammered into very thin sheets, a kind of foil called “gold leaf”, a very small amount can cover a relatively large area, and it can be applied to surfaces for decorative effect. Gold leaf has been applied to art objects and decorative surfaces through much of recorded history.…