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  • Sketches from Richard Solomon artists

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    I’ve written previously about a number of illustrators who are represented by Richard Solomon, a well known artists representative in New York whose list of represented artists reads like a who’s who of the top names in contemporary illustration. In addition to the portfolios of represented artists on the Richard Solomon website (for which I’ll…

  • Alexei Savrasov

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    Though I know of some of the Russian painters associated with the group known as the Peredvizhniki (“itinerants” or “wanderers”), Alexei (Aleksey) Kondratyevich Savrasov was one with whom I was not very familiar until recently (see my recent post Picturing Winter on Tor.com). With a little digging, I’ve found that he was actually one of…

  • Marcin Jakubowski

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    Marcin Jakubowski is a freelance concept artist and illustrator who works digitally, painting his atmospheric images primarily in Photoshop. Based in Gdansk, Poland, Jakubowski works with a variety of clients in CG animation, TV shows and commercials. His website has examples of his illustrations, character and creature design and environments, as well as a section…

  • Marcia Burtt

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    Marcia Burtt is a plein air painter who has chosen to work in acrylic, a medium more often associated with studio painting, photographic realism and illustration than the immediacy of plein air. Her approach, however, makes it seem a natural choice; with fresh, bright colors and a distinctly painterly feeling, she captures scenes of waterways…

  • Scott Gustafson

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    Scott Gustafson’s richly textured and intricately detailed illustrations are steeped in his admiration for great illustrators of the Golden Age like N.C. Wyeth, Normal Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and Arthur Rackham. Though he has had numerous commercial clients in his 25 year career, his fondness for those great classic illustrations, and the classic stories they often…

  • Adoration of the Shepherds, Gerrit van Honthorst

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    I love nativity scenes like the one at top (with details below it), Adoration of the Shepherds by 17th century painter Gerrit van Honthorst, in which the infant is not just bathed in light, but seems to be a source of light, as if incandescent with the Holy Spirit. In this case the child appears…