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  • Luther Emerson van Gorder

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    I discovered Luther van Gorder from a striking small painting of his that attracted my attention in the midst of some of the terrific French and American Impressionist work in the current Paths to Impressionism exhibit at the Newark Museum in New Jersey. The piece is called In the Park, showing women strolling in New…

  • Chris Rahn

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    I love the line in Christopher Rahn’s website bio that goes: “As the son of a hippie and a photographer, I was encouraged to pursue what I loved and see how far I could take it… look what happened.” Look what happened indeed. Rahn is an illustrator with an emphasis on the fantastic and otherworldly,…

  • Suzanne Duranceu

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    Suzanne Duranceu is a Canadian illustrator whose paintings evidence a strong sense of textural detail and a delicate refinement that give them a feeling of presence and gravity. In other hands images like her version of works by Holbein or Gainsborough as represented by cats might lapse into kitsch, but she handles it with such…

  • Wang Hui

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    Wang Hui was a Chinese painter who gathered up influences from past masters and wove them into his own interpretation of their methods and techniques; and refreshed the traditions of Chinese painting in the process. Active during the early Qing period (17th Century), Wang was exposed at an early age to the influence of some…

  • SketchCrawl 20

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    As I noted when I first wrote about it back in 2005, SketchCrawl is a series of outdoor group drawing events, originally conceived by Pixar artist and illustrator Enrico Casarosa, as the artistic equivalent of a pubcrawl (seem my post on Enrico Casarosa, and here). He started to organize the events ahead of time, in…

  • Shy the Sun: Bakers Animation

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    Shy the Sun, the South African animation production company formed around the talents of Ree Treweek and Jannes Hendrikz from the Black Heart Gang, has produced a new animated TV spot, this one for Bakers Precious Biscuits. See my previous post on Shy the Sun’s Sea Orchestra spot for United Airlines. The new spot dovetails…