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  • “Painting a Day” Blogs (Round 7)

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    I’ve been reporting on the “Painting a Day” phenomenon since well before it was a phenomenon, since my initial 2005 post on Duane Keiser (left); who originated the practice in its commonly understood form of painting one small painting each day and posting it on a blog, usually also offering it for sale. The demands…

  • More Gustav Tenggren treasures from ASIFA

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    The indefatigable archivists at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive continue to amaze, amuse, entertain and enlighten us with great examples of Golden Age illustration that are being added to their database. Notably, they have added to their considerable reserve of dazzlingly beautiful illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren, an underappreciated Swedish illustrator who I wrote about previously here…

  • Arthur Mount (update)

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    What strikes me about Arthur Mount’s crisp, clean illustrations is what he leaves out. I’m not just talking about the degree to which he simplifies his images, extracting from his reference material just those visual elements that are crucial to conveying the subject, but the line he draws (if you’ll excuse the expression) between a…

  • Pochade Boxes

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    This post is out of date. See my more current special article on Pochade Boxes This post was updated May 10, 2018. Though the practice by individuals can be traced back further, painting en plein air, meaning in the plain air or simply painting out of doors, was first practiced in significant numbers by artists…

  • Michael Brown

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    Michael Brown is an artist about whom I can find little information. I came across his work on the web site for Gallery Nucleus. He indulges in some delightful weirdness involving vaguely bunny-like things holding matches, sinister looking rabbits and birds with human eyes, and, in particular, beautifully colored translucent imaginary undersea invertebrates, floating languidly…

  • Eric Bowman

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    Eric Bowman is a painter and illustrator originally from Southern California and now based in the Pacific Northwest. After years as a successful illustrator, Bowman is apparently focusing on his passion for plein air painting and figure work. His painting site has galleries of recent work, an archive of older work, and figure studies. He…