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Author: cparker

  • Douglas Fryer

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    Born in Utah, raised in Illinois and California, Douglas Fryer returned to Utah to study, and went on to teach there and in other parts of the country in addition to establishing a career in illustration. His clients have included Warner Brothers, Harcourt Brace, TDK and Proctor and Gamble among others. Fryer eventually gravitated toward…

  • Maggie Taylor

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    Maggie Taylor uses found materials, a flatbed scanner and Adobe Photoshop to create her wistful, atmospheric photo-collages. Her images have a feeling of 19th Century academic art and a consistency that puts me in mind of Max Ernst’s graphic collage novel Une Semaine du Bonté. Taylor has applied her image making sensibilities, which frequently feel…

  • James Paick

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    James Paick is a concept artist for the gaming industry, working out of Los Angeles and is a graduate of Art Center College of Design. Beyond that I know little, as his blog and web site don’t offer much in the way of biographical info, client lists or project credits. I do know, however, that…

  • Ilya Repin

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    Ilya Repin was probably the foremost proponent of 19th Century realism in Russia. He studied at the Petersburgh Academy of Arts, and was by reports uncommonly talented from a young age. His image of Barge Haulers on the Volga (image above, with detail below, sometimes called “The Volga Boatmen”) was begun in his last year…

  • Chris Ware – The Acme Novelty Date Book Volume Two

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    Chris Ware, who I wrote about here and here, has just released The Acme Novelty Date Book, Volume Two: 1995-2000. For those of you who are only familiar with Ware’s precise, carefully controlled marvels of precision comic art, these two volumes are something else altogether. Basically they’re sketchbooks, not that different in essence from sketchbooks…

  • Andrew Loomis in Illustration Magazine

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    The new issue of Illustration magazine (#20) just came out, and the highlight is a beautiful and extensive (32 page) article on Andrew Loomis. Loomis was an influential editorial and advertising illustrator who is better known for his instructional books than his classic illustrations. Hopefully this article will go some way toward correcting this. Loomis’…