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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Andrew Hem

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    Andrew Hem is an illustrator and gallery artist whose illustration clients include The Atlantic, LA Times, Chicago Time Out, New Scientist and Fort Worth Opera. Hem, originally from Cambodia and now based in Los Angeles, studied at the Art Center College of Design. He works in gouache and acrylic in a painterly, textural style that…

  • Audubon’s Birds of America

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    If your impression of the paintings of French-American naturalist, ornithologist and artist John James Audubon is based on small reproductions of some of his more subdued bird images, you may be surprised by the views afforded in this terrific online resource. The University of Pittsburgh, which owns a rare complete edition of Audubon’s Birds of…

  • Daniel van Benthuysen

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    Artists often select themes within their chosen disciplines, producing series of works with similar subjects. Daniel van Benthuysen, originally from St. Louis and now based on Long Island, NY, is exploring two themes that I find particularly interesting. One is a series he calls “Rooftops” in which the edges and angles of rooftops form his…

  • Nicolai Fechin drawings on Inspiration blog

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    Wow. Francis Vallejo has gifted us with a collection of drawings by the superb Russian-American artist Nicolai Fechin on his aptly named Inspiration blog. Be sure to click on the images for the larger versions; in many cases they are quite large. Some of the images are a bit rough, I don’t know if that’s…

  • The Elements of Drawing: John Ruskin’s Teaching Collection at Oxford

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    I’m most familiar with Victorian writer, art critic, draftsman and watercolorist John Ruskin for his critical defense of the fledgling Pre-Raphaelite group of painters, vital at a time when their ideas and approach were at odds with the prevailing values of the Royal Academy and the British art establishment in general. His defense of their…

  • Olivier Tossan

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    Olivier Tossan is a visual development artist who grew up in Paris, lived an worked in Berlin for 12 years, and is now established in California where he is working for DreamWorks Animation Studios. Tossan has a springy, lively style, particularly in his character designs, that he embellishes with a dark palette accented with highlights…