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  • My Articles for Answers.com

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    I was asked to be the Answers.com “Category Expert Writer” for a period of several months in 2013-2014, writing articles for the category of Painting: http://painting.answers.com These were my contributions. February 2014 An Introduction to Plein Air Painting Beautiful Highlights from the History of Landscape Painting Make Painting Easier by Using the Sight-size Method Vincent…

  • Santiago Rusiñol

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    For a long time, my only impression of Santiago Rusiñol was of the painting Interior of a Café (images above, second down), which is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I liked the painting, with its odd emotional and visual tone and interesting use of value relationahips, but I didn’t follow up on the artist…

  • About Face (Chris James)

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    About Face is a short (4 minute) hand drawn animation featuring a series of nicely imaginative morphing sequences, with animals, faces, even caricatures of figures from history and pop culture, like Picasso and Dal&iacite; (above). Written and drawn in 1977 by Chris James, with camera work by Julian Holdaway and music by Claude Jouvin, the…

  • Bill Mayer

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    Bill Mayer’s wonderfully energetic and delightfully loopy illustrations are flashes of pure visual hyperbole. His intensely colorful and beautifully rendered animals, monsters and freaked-out people just about jump off the screen, eyes a-goggle and huge toothy grins as wide as their heads (if they have heads). Mayer has a website with examples of his work…

  • Google Doodles

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    In the late 90’s (I think it was 1998), in my role as a website designer, I was at a convention for internet professionals called Internet World in New York City. One of the exhibitors was an enthusiastic group at a low-rent table, with a rather bare bones display, handing out leaflets and encouraging people…

  • More goodies from Sotheby’s

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    For those who are frustrated by the seeming shortage of high-resolution images of great paintings on the web, and are tired of navigating little zoom windows to try to get a glimpse of brushwork or paint surface, one resource for full screen high-resolution images of artwork is the auction catalog preview feature on the Sotheby’s…