Author: cparker
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Mark Selander
Concept and visual design artist Mark Selander studied industrial design in college, and took that experience to work for Will Vinton Studios (now known as Laika) creating models, sets and concept art, and then to Microsoft Games, where he worked as a concept artist for six years. He now works as a freelance concept artist,…
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They Draw and Cook
They Draw and Cook is a great idea, a series of short recipes submitted by illustrators and other artists who cook (or cooks who illustrate), accompanied by or in the form of illustrations, and served up fresh daily in blog form. The entries are varied in both illustration style and approach to food and drink,…
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Restoring Eakins’ The Gross Clinic
Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross, more commonly referred to as The Gross Clinic, is a painting with a history. The painting is regarded as the masterpiece in the oeuvre of Thomas Eakins, who was in turn considered the greatest American painter of his time. The painting has been described as the most important American…
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Postcard from Provence: Paintings by Julian Merrow-Smith
Once upon a time, there was an English painter who moved to Provence, a part of southern France long associated with artists seeking the colors nature might reveal to them in the region’s legendary sunlight. This painter was not working in the time of the Barbizon School and the Impressionists, however, but in the blossoming…
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Julie Heffernan
Garlands of fruits, rendered with softly psychedelic colors; twisted networks of wiry limbs and roots, framed by lush tropical plants, luminous in distant mist; topographical cornucopias of formal gardens, resplendent on the surface of a globe, itself set in a magical walled garden; fruit laced bowers sheltering asexual twins; glowing indoor showers of jeweled raindrops;…
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Sketch Theatre
Sketch Theatre collects step-through demonstration videos of artists from comics, film and game design, animation and related fields. Created by Alex Alvarez, founder and director of the Gnomon School of Visual Effects and the Gnomon Workshop, and produced by Lily Feliciano, Sketch Theater allows artists in these fields to give quick instructional demonstrations that pass…