Author: cparker
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Tom Wheeler
Like many of us who come out of art school with concerns about the viability of gallery art as a source of livelihood, Tom Wheeler had a back-up plan, and devoted part of his attention to computer based design skills. Also like many of who who pursue a dual career path, he found he had…
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The Blank Page
The Blank Page is a short (3 minute) stop-motion animation by student George Metaxas that helped to get him accepted into the experimental animation program at Cal Arts. Metaxas describes it as “An allegory about the creative process”. What’s particularly interesting is the visual charm he accomplishes with his limited materials: a range of cardboard…
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John Collier
John Collier was a Victorian neo-classical painter, apparently introduced early on to Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, who did not take him on as a pupil, and influenced later in his career by the portrait paintings of John Everett Millais and his Pre-Raphaelite colleagues. Judging by the quotes from reviews written during his life and at the…
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Tuomas Korpi
Tuomas Korpi is a Finnish illustrator and matt painter who, like many in his field, paints digitally in Photoshop. His site has little or no biographical information, but has a number of his paintings arranged into genres. I found the work most interesting in the Illustrations section, which includes a variety of subjects including digital…
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Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, is best known for his grand, sweeping views of his home city of Venice, intricately detailed and striking in their architectural fidelity. Most famous are his depictions of large scale public events, like A Regatta on the Grand Canal (image above, top, with detail, second down). Less well known,…
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Jim Denevan
Making lines in sand or earth with a stick is probably the oldest form of drawing practiced by human beings; followed, perhaps, by using a burned stick to make marks on rocks (charcoal drawing!). Many of us (myself certainly included) still love to make drawings in semi-wet sand at the shoreline; making exquisitely brief marks…