Author: cparker
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Wei Te – Mu di (The Cowherd’s Flute) by Te Wei
Wei Te – Mu di, or The Cowherd’s Flute, is a beautiful short animated film by Te Wei (Sheng Tewei) a master Chinese animator who died this month at the age of 95. Te Wei was a print cartoonist who was asked by the Chinese Ministry of Culture to establish an animation studio in 1949.…
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Vintage German Illustration
Susan Lenox has posted a collection of vintage German posters, illustration and advertising art (mostly late 19th and early 20th Century) to a Flickr set. There are travel posters, ads for beer, bicycles, theatre and pens, and a variety of artists and styles. Many of the images are linked to larger versions, but unfortunately not…
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Jean-Sébastien Rossbach
Jean-Sébastien Rossbach is a French freelance illustrator and concept artist based in Paris. He has done work in publishing, video games, board and role playing games, movies, the recording industry and advertising. Rossbach gives his fantasy themed illustrations an extra element of decorative surface, incorporating patterns and deign elements into his images. Very often he…
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Philip Geiger
Phillip Geiger says that he does not intend for his paintings to carry a narrative, but a narrative element is often implied by the posed subjects that inhabit his room interiors. His interiors are at once quiet and lively, calm and energetic. It is in his treatment of light and painterly handling that Geiger conveys…
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Jason Seiler
Jason Seiler is a caricaturist, character designer and illustrator whose clients include The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Weekly Standard, Business Week, MAD Magazine and many others. As a caricaturist, Seiler often pushes his exaggerated portraits to extremes, to the point where they have a fun-house mirror feeling. He can then turn around and…
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Larry Seiler
Gouache is a medium that doesn’t get its due. Often looked on as a “less than” subset of transparent watercolor, or a “wannabe” substitute for oil, gouache has some of the characteristics of each. Gouache is a form of watercolor, pigment suspended in gum arabic, and does give the ability to work in light over…