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  • 75 Artists You Must Know and Where to Find Them, from DaniDraws.com

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    Dani Jones, the illustrator behind the long-running and very informative art blog, DaniDraws.com, has posted a list of 75 artists, including illustrators and cartoonists, that are suggested as “must know”, along with a good shot of 6 or 8 links to resources for each one. There isn’t much in the way of description, just a…

  • J. Alden Weir

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    Julian Alden Weir, more commonly called J. Alden Weir, was one of the wonderfully diverse group of artists that get lumped together under the catch-all heading of “American Impressionists”. Weir was a member of The Ten American Painters, a loosely tied group of painters in New York and Boston who broke away from the Society…

  • Vincenzo Camuccini

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    Today is the “Ides of March” or March 15th, the anniversary of the date in 44BC when a group of Roman senators assassinated Julius Caesar; whose lust for power had prompted him to declare himself absolute ruler for life (i.e. dictator), and thus threatened the senators’ power (more important, of course, than the welfare of…

  • J.P. Targete

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    How about some nice monsters and warriors for a Friday diversion? J.P. Targete paints wonderfully textured imaginary worlds populated with snarling monsters, glowering demons, deranged warriors, power-mad wizards, seething dragons, jealous witches and all manner of fun beasties and grotesqueries. Targete is an illustrator, concept artist and art director for the publishing and gaming industries.…

  • Walt Reed and Illustration House

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    Illustration House is a venerable gallery, repository and auction house in New York that specializes in great illustration. It is the province of Walt Reed, who is probably the foremost expert on illustration that we have. Reed is also the author of numerous definitive books on the subject, including The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000, Visions…

  • Nelson Shanks

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    It’s always seemed to me that portraiture is a particularly demanding type of painting, at least the kind of portraiture in which the artist is commissioned to create the portrait, as opposed to an artist who paints someone simply because they find them an interesting subject. Not only do you have the exacting demands of…