Stephen Harby is a working architect and lifelong student of architectural history with a passion for travel and sketching architecture. Harby took a sabbatical from the architectural office in which he had been working for many years and devoted it to travel and sketching, and in the process moved to watercolor as his preferred medium for observing and drawing architecture. His site has a section of recent work as well as collections of archived …

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Stephen Bissette is an American comics artist known for his drawings of monsters and dinosaurs and his work on horror comics titles, in particular for several award winning series of DC Comic’s Swamp Thing with writer Alan Moore. The home page of Bissette’s site serves as a blog, though there is also a specific blog section called...
Stephen Scott Young is a renowned contemporary watercolorist and etcher whose works are in major collections and museums. Young was born in Hawaii, moved to Florida with his family at the age of 14, and studied printmaking at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota. His watercolor technique, which frequently makes use of drybrush, is self-taught,...
Butch Belair is a photographer and digital artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He indicates that he drew extensively as a child, but lost interest in drawing for a time and only returned to the practice a few years ago. He began to carry a pen and sketchbook and draw his surroundings, and has since added watercolor to his sketching materials. Belair...
Gouache is a medium that doesn’t get its due. Often looked on as a “less than” subset of transparent watercolor, or a “wannabe” substitute for oil, gouache has some of the characteristics of each. It is a form of watercolor, pigment suspended in gum arabic, and does give the ability to work in light over dark like...
In the field of architectural design, oftentimes a drawing is not enough to assure a client that you have understood specifications as per the desired structure. In these cases, an architectural rendering can enhance trust and communication between both the client and provider, and allow for swift peace of mind.
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If you look at enough concept art, particularly within the gaming industry, much of it can come to feel repetitive and even formulaic; which why I was so pleased to discover the concept art of Thom Tenery, which is delightfully imaginative, unique and wonderfully realized. Tenery studied Architecture at the University of Texas, Austin, and worked...
About Ottorino OTTORINO DE LUCCHI, born in Ferrara, works in Folgaria (Trento). In recent years, he has developed a painting technique based on watercolor drybrush which allows to mantain the brightness of the watercolor. To learn more about Ottorino and to see more of his work, please visit his website by following the link below: http://www.ottorinodelucchi.com...
I’ve written previously about Erik Tiemens , and his blog Virtual Gouache Land . Tiemens has recently redone his web site at watersketch.com with an emphasis on his gouache and watercolor paintings and sketches. There are also galleries of oil paintings, drawings and photography. Tiemens’ gouache paintings, though sometimes combined...
While I’m on the subjects of sketching and anniversaries (see my previous post about Urban Sketchers ), this Saturday marks the 5th anniversary of the World Wide SketchCrawl . SketchCrawl is a drawing marathon, originally conceived by Pixar storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa , and modeled as a pubcrawl, but with art materials. Artists gather...
Dutch artist Anton Pieck was, among other things, a painter in oil and watercolor, a printmaker in etching, engraving lithography and woodcarving; a comics artist and an illustrator of calendars, travel books, textbooks and classics like 1001 Arabian Nights (image above, bottom). He was also a drawing teacher at Kennemer Lyceum in Bloemendaal...
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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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