Author: cparker
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Animated TV Titles
In the 1950’s 60’s and 70’s, a number of non-animated television shows had animated titles, something that was also common in movies of the time. Undoubtedly influenced by the film title mini-masterpieces of Saul Bass, the TV titles were usually much cruder and less imaginative, but still amusing nonetheless. Some of them were in fact…
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Chris J. Anderson
Chris J. Anderson is a concept artist and illustrator working in both the film and video game industries. He was working with NCsoft, but beyond that I have no information as neither his web site or his blog have any biographical or client history information. (There a link on the web site for a future…
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Lane Bennion
Utah artist Lane Bennion finds subjects for paintings were I, for one, would never think to look for them. I’m fascinated in particular with his recent series of oils of interiors of department stores and malls. Here he finds intricate grids of light and shadow, geometric latticeworks of colorful planes, and compositions in which he…
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Larry Francis
Scale is an interesting aspect of painting and drawing. I’m always fascinated when artists choose to work at both relatively large and relatively small size, particularly when working with the same subject matter (see my posts about Thomas Paquette and his large oils and very small guoache paintings). Philadelphia area painter Larry Francis also paints…
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American Presidents (Patrick Moberg)
In a somewhat different take on a series of portraits of the former and present presidents of the U.S than my previous post on Presidential Portraits, illustrator Patrick Moberg has a piece that I believe is titled November 4, 2008. It gives a nicely striking comparison of certain physical characteristics of the American presidents to…
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Presidential Portraits (Rick Tuma)
With lots of attention being paid to the inauguration of the new American President today, here’s a set of portrait drawings of the 43 former U.S. presidents by Rick Tuma, a staff artist for the Chicago Tribune. The series is posted as a special feature called Presidential Portraits on the Tribune’s web site. Tuma painted…