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Author: cparker

  • James Martin

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    Like his friend and fellow contributor to the Paintopolis group blog, Kevin Turcotte, (who has continued to add nice small paintings to that blog since my post last week), James Martin works in the animation industry. Martin works for Dreamworks, but aside from that I can find little information about him or his professional work.…

  • Daniel López Muñoz

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    Daniel López Muñoz is a Spanish born concept and visual development artist for the film industry now living in California. He worked for some time for Blue Sky Studios and now works for Pixar. His credits include Ice Age: The Meltdown and Robots, as well as a series of 3-2-1 Penguins titles. Muñoz has been…

  • Jean Frédéric Bazille

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    I think of Frédéric Bazille as the “lost” Impressionist, both in the sense that he is often overlooked in discussions of the principle figures in the Impressionist movement; and in the sense that he was lost to the Impressionists, and the world, when he foolishly joined Napoleon’s army at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War,…

  • The Vadeboncoeur Collection of ImageS

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    I’ll let you in on a little secret. Some of you may be under the impression from my posts on the subject that I’m an expert on the field and history of illustration, but that’s not the case. I simply know a little bit about some terrific illustrators that I’ve come across over the years.…

  • Richard Parkes Bonington

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    Richard Parkes Bonington was one of the great English landscape painters at the height of the grand era of landscape painting in the 1800’s, and a notable figure in the English watercolor movement. He is credited with carrying the influence of both of those artistic waves to Continental Europe and inspiring many European painters to…

  • Mark Bischel

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    Mark Bischel is another of those illustrators whose work I’ve encountered, but about whom I know little. His web presence is minimalist to a fault, consisting of a series of (unfortunately horizontally) scrolling thumbnails and the larger images they link to; which can also be navigated (fortunately) by forward and back arrows. His images range…