Author: cparker
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Claire Wendling
Claire Wendling is a French comics artist, illustrator and cover artist who made a quick impact when she arrived on the scene. She won the “Alph’Art Avenir” prize while still her third year at the École des Beaux-Arts in Angouleme, and the next year began the comics series Les Lumiéres de l’Amelou with writer Christophe…
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Bill Perkins
Bill Perkins has worked as a concept artist, production designer, layout artist, art director and storyboard artist for companies like Walt Disney Feature Animation, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, ILM, and 9th Ray Studios. His film credits include The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Fantasia 2000, Space Jam, Shrek, and the upcoming John Carter and…
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Emily Allchurch
British artist Emily Allchurch uses digital collage, compositing hundreds of her own photographs, usually taken around London, into recreations of old master landscapes. These are then mounted as transparencies in large scale on backlit lightboxes. Her results are dramatic and striking, but the real interest goes beyond that to the “twists”, in which she juxtaposes…
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William Low
The barrier between illustration and gallery art is perhaps more permeable than ever. Artists whose primary focus is on either side are moving between the two worlds with increasing frequency. William Low is primarily an illustrator, though his illustrations look more like gallery pieces than most illustrations, and his gallery work is in pretty much…
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Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones, or Android Jones as he is sometimes known, is a concept artist and an early adopter of digital art tools. He has worked for ILM, Black Isle Studios, Retro Studios and is currently art director for Massive Black. He was integral to the concepts for well known games like Nintendo’s Metroid Prime and…
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Faye F. Vander Veer
My recent post on the Philadelphia First Friday gallery walk reminded me that there was another recent art event in Philadelphia that I had meant to write about. The Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show, which started life 75 years ago as the “Rittenhouse Square Clothesline Show”, is the oldest organized outdoor art show in the…