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Author: cparker

  • Art Blocks for Ghana

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    There are numerous tragic situations around the globe today, some sudden and unexpected, some ongoing; you might think of them as acute and chronic. Art Blocks for Ghana addresses one of the latter, and though it may seem small in scope, it is with small direct actions that we most effectively make changes in the…

  • Terry Miura (update)

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    Since I wrote about California painter Terry Miura in 2007, his website has been redone and updated with new paintings, divided into sections for Landscapes, Cityscapes, Figurative and Small Works. Miura’s softly geometric, atmospheric paintings emphasize color harmony and composition and have an emotional resonance for those brief, almost unnoticed moments when we are struck…

  • Mukesh Singh

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    Mukesh Singh moved from working with a gaming company as a 3D artist and concept designer into drawing comics, working for the then new Virgin Comics publishing house. He moved from his base in Mumbai to new quarters in Bangalore and took on comics full time. He has worked on titles like Devi, Guy Ritchie’s…

  • About Face (Chris James)

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    About Face is a short (4 minute) hand drawn animation featuring a series of nicely imaginative morphing sequences, with animals, faces, even caricatures of figures from history and pop culture, like Picasso and Dal&iacite; (above). Written and drawn in 1977 by Chris James, with camera work by Julian Holdaway and music by Claude Jouvin, the…

  • Paintmap

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    Like The Arts Map, that I wrote about last spring, Paintmap is a location based mapping feature based on the Google Maps API. In the case of The Arts Map, the application allows artists and arts related institutions to locate themselves on a global map, with a virtual pin tied to a pop-up with more…

  • James Hart Dyke, artist who spied on the spies

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    Hart Dyke, James Hart Dyke, was offered a mission by Her Majesty’s Government: to go undercover with MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, and report on the life of undercover agents in paintings and drawings. Hart Dyke has been official artist on four royal tours with Prince Charles and has been embedded as a war artist…