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  • Daniel Sponton

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    There is a fascination to drawings and paintings in which many figures are arrayed in the same space, often in a semi-aerial view that allows for lots of them to be seen at once. Argentinian cartoonist and illustrator Daniel Sponton has developed an illustration style that features hundreds of small figures arranged in sometimes complex…

  • Art Nouveau style mural in Montreal

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    Here in Philadelphia, which has, I believe, more anti-graffiti murals than any other city in North America, I’ve seen my share of large scale and nicely done murals on the sides of buildings. However, in Montreal, members of A’Shop, an artists collective that draws from the graffiti and street art culture, has created a mural…

  • El Mac

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    Miles ‘Mac’ MacGregor, AKA “El Mac” is an artist based between Los Angeles and Phoenix. He started out painting with acrylics and doing graffiti, moved into murals and developed a focus on faces and portraits, both in a photorealist style and in his unique signature style. He sometimes collaborates with an artist known as Retna…

  • 1896 Paintings on Wikimedia Commons

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    Lets set the Wayback Machine and take a walk through the year 1896 by way of the Wikimedia Commons page for that category. Yes, the image quality is uneven, but there are gems to be found, and this is just a selection from the introductory page for this category. You can drill down into subcategories,…

  • Interview with Jean-Baptiste Monge

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    Jennifer Oliver was kind enough to write and let me know that she has posted a two-part interview with French fantasy illustrator and concept artist Jean-Baptiste Monge (who I profiled previously here) on her blog Academy of Art Character and Creature Design Notes. An Interview with Jean-Baptiste Monge, Part 1, and Part 2. The blog…

  • Gennady Spirin

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    Russian born illustrator Gennady Spirin studied at the Moscow Art School and the Academy of Arts, as well as the Moscow Stroganov Institute, and currently resides in the U.S. Spirin is the author and illustrator of a number of children’s books for which his illustrations have garnered awards in Europe and the U.S. Spirin blends…