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Adebanji Alade was born in Nigeria, and trained at Yaba College of Technology (a renowned art college in Nigeria). He extended his studies at Heatherly’s School of Fine Art in Chelsea in the UK. He currently lives in the UK and works from a studio in Chelsea. I first encountered Alade’s work through his blog , which he has subtitled: “My art, my passion for sketching”, and passion for art is something that he demonstrates in abundance. His web …

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August Hall artwork at AllenSpiegelFineArts.com
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"August Hall is a California based illustrator and concept artist. He has done work for Industrial Light and Magic, Pixar Animation, and Dreamworks. He has also done covers for DC Comics’ Vertigo line." --Source: http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/12/04/august-hall/...
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Fred Tomaselli
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Tomaselli utilizes both painting and and collage techniques; the latter including unorthodox (and sometimes even illegal) materials like flowers, herbs, prescription pills and hallucinogenic plants. He will also use photographic elements and direct painting in gouache; and adheres the collage components to the panel with resin.
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Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus comes to Chicago
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Caravaggio’s striking painting The Supper at Emmaus is one of the most respected and influential paintings in the canon of Western Art. The occasion of the painting crossing the Atlantic to be on display at The Art Institute of Chicago is an occasion to be noted; similar to the significant visit of Vermeer’s The Milkmaid to the Met in NYC.
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Matt Held Facebook portraits
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Individuals can essentially submit their photos for consideration by joining the “I’ll have my Facebook portrait painted by Matt Held” Facebook group, from which Held selects his subjects based on his own criteria for interesting portraits.
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You Thought Your Doodles Were Good
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Cheeming Boey draws on styrofoam coffee cups with a sharpie pen. Boey’s cups sell in galleries for $120 to $220 and are sometimes placed in plastic cases.
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