Author: cparker
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Al Williamson 1931-2010
I’m sorry to report that Al Williamson, one of the greats of 20th Century comics art and a personal favorite of mine, died on Sunday at the age of 79. For more see my posts on Al Williamson and Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic. [Via io9 and CBR]
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The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme
Enemy of the Impressionists, vilified by the modernists, autocratic teacher of Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins and several painters who would later be labeled American Impressionists, and one of the most controversial, successful and popular painters of the last half of the 19th Century, Jean-Léon Gérôme stood out from the labels of Orientalist and Academic that…
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Scott M. Fischer
Massachusetts based fantasy artist Scott Fisher counts among his clients Simon and Schuster, Warner Brothers. Tor Books, Lucas Film Harcourt and Wizards of the Coast. For the latter he has done a number of illustrations for their iconic Magic: The Gathering game, for which his work has a pleasantly different look than many of his…
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Gobelins Students Animations for Annecy 2010
As usual, this year’s wonderfully talented (and obviously superbly instructed) crop of students from the Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris have created short (60-90 second) animated films that are shown as introductions to the events of each day of the years’ Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy (Annecy Animation Festival).…
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Sandra Wakeen
Sandra Wakeen is a Connecticut based painter who transitioned from a career in illustration and commercial art into portraiture, then added still life and landscape to her subjects. She has traveled and studied in Europe, most recently with Tony Ryder at Studio Escalier in France. Wakeen’s portfolio website showcases her crisp, sharply focused still lifes,…
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Threadless T-shirt designs, sketch to print
Threadless is an online T-shirt store in which designs are solicited form the community and put up for popular vote. A few of the highest rated designs are then selected by the company for sale and the designers are paid a set fee. The designs are usually gently humorous, wry or clever in some way.…