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  • Ken Auster

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    California artist Ken Auster studied for his BFA at Long Beach State University in the midst of the 1960’s surfing craze, and applied his talents to successful lines of silkscreen prints and T-shirt designs that became icons of surfer culture. In the 1990’s Auster moved into plein air painting, capturing immediate scenes in a painterly…

  • Alexa Meade

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    When is a painting not a painting? Mixed media artist Alexa Meade presents that question in images that look like somewhat painterly expressionist/realist paintings but are in reality painted objects, including people. For her living paintings series Meade applies acrylic paint to the surfaces of objects and walls in way that mimics the appearance of…

  • The Realist – Asaf Hanuka

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    The Realist is a graphic story by illustrator and comics artist Asaf Hanuka about one family’s search for a new home after their current living arrangements are upset. The strip was originally serialized in a Hebrew language version in the Israeli Newspaper Calcalist. Hanuka has re-lettered it in English and is publishing it on the…

  • Florian Afflerbach

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    Florian Afflerbach is an architect and architectural artist, and one of the founders of the Urban Sketchers group blog, which I wrote about previously (also here and here). While many artists who sketch architectural scenes rely on a suggestion or informal feeling for perspective, Afflerbach has a masterful command of its nuances, at times tackling…

  • Restoration of Van Gogh’s The Bedroom

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    Vincent van Gogh’s now iconic painting of his bedroom in Arles is one of his most famous and favored works. He described his intention for the painting in his letters to his brother Theo, saying: “This time it’s simply my bedroom, but the colour has to do the job here, and through its being simplified…

  • Chris Beck

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    Wisconsin artist Chris Beck went from the fine art program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to a career as a graphic designer and then found her way back to painting. Her bright, high-chroma watercolors have been featured in magazines like Watercolor Artist and The Artist’s Magazine and she has been the recipient of a number…