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  • The Wormworld Saga, Daniel Lieske

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    The Wormworld Saga is a new online graphic novel by German illustrator, comics artist and gaming concept artist Daniel Lieske. It is an adventure story centering on the memories of a young boy recalling a time in his life when the world of the everyday intersected with the extraordinary. The format is a bit different…

  • Chardin: Painter of Silence

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    Still life, that genre of painting with a name that seems a contradiction in terms, is, in itself, quiet. Still life never receives the attention paid to more prominent types of paintings. Dramatic interpretations of Biblical, history or literary scenes, genre painting, portraits and even landscapes, overshadow it easily. Still life is the Rodney Dangerfield…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2011!

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    In spite of the fact that I’ve featured him twice just in the past two weeks, I’ll continue my tradition of ringing out the old year and bringing in the new with a couple of New Year’s babies from J.C. Leyendecker, the American illustrator who started the practice of representing the new year as a…

  • Hendrick Avercamp and the “Little Ice Age”

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    So what to you do in the winter when the ground is covered in snow and the rivers are frozen over? Get out and enjoy of course. Though we have other, more familiar names associated with 17th Century scenes of gatherings on the ice of frozen rivers and streams in Dutch towns (notably Bruegel), Avercamp…

  • Illustration Magazine Archives, Online Free in Fullscreen

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    Wow. I’ve raved before about Dan Zimmer’s beautifully edited, produced and printed Illustration Magazine. Devoted to classic illustration, this magazine is, in a way, more like a series of short books, with in-depth, profusely illustrated articles about great illustrators. While most magazines are stingy about putting their precious content online, Zimmer has made every issue…

  • Wil Freeborn

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    Wil Freeborn is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Though his professional portfolio focuses on his (quite nice) graphic design rather than illustration, his blog features a number of wonderful sketches. These are of a variety of subjects — cafe and store interiors, schoolrooms, townscapes, landscapes and a particularly nice series of…