Author: cparker
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Brian Dettmer
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer cuts into books, of which he which he has first sealed the edges, proceeding one page at a time, cutting around images and other areas of interest and exposing layers of pages beneath. He does not remove or replace content, he works with the internal arrangement of…
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The Brilliant Line
Though the physical exhibition for which it was created is in the past (having ended in January of 2010), the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design has maintained online an interactive called The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver 1480-1650. The interactive features 8 Renaissance and Baroque engravings, drawn from…
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Drawing Inspiration
Drawing Inspiration (Vimeo Link) is animated short from the UK, directed by Tim McCourt and Wesley Louis, aided by a group listed on the Vimeo page and on the Drawing Inspiration blog. A park denizen’s routine of sitting on his regular bench and drinking is interrupted by the discovery of a mysterious drawing of him,…
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Colley Whisson
Australian painter Colley Whisson has been painting from the age of 20, encouraged by his father, Eric Whisson, also an artist. Colley Whisson uses a bright palette and an appealingly textural rendering technique, in which forms are defined by bold strokes of heavy paint, laid on with very visible evidence of the brush. He utilizes…
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Massimo Carnevale
Italian comics artist and illustrator Massimo Carnevale sent me two links back in 2006, suggesting that I check out his blog and an entry on his work in the Italian edition of Wikipedia. Unfortunately, as often happens with my long and ungainly list of potential topics for Lines and Colors, his suggestion fell between the…
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100 Faces (Karin Jurick)
Karin Jurick continues to impress me, not just with her wonderfully fresh, bold and immediate painting style, but with her relentless pursuit of her art. Feeling stymied in her progress as a painter last summer, she took on a personal challenge to paint 100 faces, choosing as her subjects mugshots from all over the country.…