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Author: cparker

  • Kent Barton

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    Illustrator Kent Barton works in scratchboard, linocut and woodcut, media that draw their lineage from graphic arts traditions that reach back into the early history of image making. He uses that feeling to advantage in his images, both in subjects for which it seems particularly appropriate to use classical graphic approach, and in modern subjects…

  • Concept Art World

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    Concept Art World is a blog (or blog-themed magazine) devoted to film and gaming concept and production art and related disciplines. It features artists from around the world, and offers articles on concept art from particular projects and a listing of artists and studios, as well as resources like books and some how-to features. You…

  • The Arts Map

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    The Arts Map is a new site, still in BETA, that uses a version of Google Maps to list artists, arts organizations, galleries, and other arts related people, places and things in a geographical context. Other than those who operate their own gallery or offer instruction in their studios, I’m not sure how useful it…

  • Jim McVicker

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    California painter Jim McVicker makes his home in Humbolt County, which is part of the rugged and beautiful Pacific Northwest region of the U.S. His paintings of that landscape and others carry the feeling of both mid and late 19th Century landscape painters, with a sense of atmospheric immediacy, and a serene, confident command of…

  • Urban Sketching Symposium

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    Co-sponsored by the Urban Sketchers blog and Flickr group and the Pacific Northwest College of Art, the 1st International Urban Sketching Symposium is slated for July 29-31, 2010 in Portland, Oregon (USA). Registration is now open. You can find all of the relevant information, including instructors, location information and accommodations on the symposium’s blog. There…

  • Tiziano Vecellio (Titian): Polyptych of the Resurrection

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    It’s as fascinating to compare artists’ interpretation of the resurrection of Christ as those of the crucifiction; though, as I pointed out in my post on Rogier ven der Wyden’s Miraflores Altarpiece, the resurrection has been much less frequently depicted in the history of art, despite its importance as a Christian observance. Here, in a…