After graduating from Clemson University, William Smith started his career in advertising, eventually working with clients like Coke, Novartis, Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble. In 2008 he shifted into a new career as a concept artist in the gaming industry, and is now working with TimeGate Studios. His online portfolio is divided into three sections, through which you scroll horizontally. I don’t know anything about the individual projects for which they were created, but there are a variety of environments and scenes, most with a science fiction flavor. Smith often contrasts bright, high chroma colors with more muted passages, and sometimes with passages of complimentary colors

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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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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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