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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 imagery and painting styles from the Renaissance with a modern design sensibility, and, to my eye, seasons it with influences from great turn of …
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Donato Giancola, the renowned science fiction and fantasy illustrator that I wrote about previously last year and in 2005 , has a new instructional DVD (more details here ), published by Massive Black Media, in which the camera follows him through the creation of “ The Mechanic ” (larger version here ), an painting that was created...
Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Isaak Il’ich Levitan) was one of the greatest of Russian landscape painters, one of the greatest Russian painters in general, and one of the great landscape painters in the history of art. Born into a poor family, he managed to begin study at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture when his family moved to Moscow...
California artist Johathan Bernard Koch studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Since then, he has apparently has had a successful career as an illustrator, with clients like The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune and Rodale Books, and has been honored by the Society of Illustrators New York; but I can’t...
UK painter, illustrator and designer Lawson Wood found a rather unique niche for himself amid the great turn of the 20th Century illustrators by going ape. Though he portrayed many other subjects, and even had other comic illustration series with particular themes, notably police officers and prehistoric scenes, it was his comic illustrations...
About Christine Kane Christine Kane is a pastel and watercolor artist who is inspired by the Midwest landscape and it’s seasons. To find new ideas for her paintings, she hikes in the forest preserves during all seasons. Christine began drawing at an early age. She focused her education on art and has a degree in Graphic Design. She is continuing...
These quick exercises from world renowned architectural illustrator and fine art watercolorist Frank M. Costantino demonstrate different watercolor techniques for painting trees. Learn more about Frank and his seminars at www.fmcostantino.com Many beginner watercolor artists have a great deal of trouble with painting believable trees in their...
If you happen to be a Japanese animation lover, you are sure to at leas have heard about One Piece. In case you haven’t you might want to know that it is a long-running series that has gotten people’s interest all over the world. The talented author and illustrator is non other than Eiichiro Oda a man who has managed to turn a simple animation...
Maurice Sendak has been a window dresser for F.A.O. Schwartz, an illustrator for All-American Comics, and, since 1951, the author and illustrator of some of the most well-known and influential books in children’s literature. A fair bit of attention is currently focused on Where the Wild Things Are , his award winning and controversial classic...
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