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ART FRAUD 16 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
"What is robbing a bank compared to founding a bank?" -- Bertolt Brecht This morning's newspapers bring the fun story of a massive art frau...
ROBERT FAWCETT, IN LINE AND TONE 8 Aug 2013 | 06:48 pm
Here is another spot illustration by illustrator Robert Fawcett, this time a small ink drawing of his friend Austin Briggs who was giving a slide show presentation: Despite the sedentary subject m...
ROBERT FAWCETT'S PATTERN OF LIGHTS AND DARKS 4 Aug 2013 | 09:39 pm
In the 1950s, Robert Fawcett visited the instructors working at the Famous Artists School in Connecticut and talked with them about his method of constructing pictures. He sketched three examples of ...
ONE L0VELY DRAWING, part 44 3 Aug 2013 | 12:02 pm
I feel this blog performs a public service on days when I can share close ups from an original Robert Fawcett drawing. This drawing had everything going against it: It's a tiny, inexpensive spot il....
COMIC-CON 2013 25 Jul 2013 | 04:58 am
This year's Comic-Con in San Diego was like the ancient bazaar of Constantinople teleported to the third moon of Zarbtron. There were charlatans and geniuses in abundance, hawking their wares from pla...
A PICTURE'S PHYSICAL DELIGHT 15 Jul 2013 | 10:34 pm
"Wildness can be the picture's better part, its physical delight." -- Gordon Parks In the 1960s, American illustration entered a wild, expressive phase. Many illustrators employed vigorous, slashi....
MAKING PEACE WITH THE MACHINE 1 Jul 2013 | 02:59 pm
The great illustrator Frank Frazetta proudly wrote his personal credo: "I work purely from my imagination, no swipes or photographs." But this Frazetta drawing... ...was taken directly from a Life M...
ROBERT M. CUNNINGHAM 25 Jun 2013 | 03:28 am
Everyone talks about the importance of "restraint" in making pictures, but restraint is only meaningful if you possess something significant to restrain. (If you have no talent, you're not actually r...
WARRING WITH TROLLS, part 4 18 Jun 2013 | 03:40 pm
"To live is to war with trolls." --Ibsen Talented illustrator Austin Briggs painted a NY Giants baseball game for the April 22, 1950 cover of the Saturday Evening Post. This is not that painting: B...
THE LAST .1 PERCENT 11 Jun 2013 | 02:16 am
99.9% of our DNA is identical for all human beings. Yet, there is enough variety left in that remaining 0.1% to make each of us unique. Your individual DNA gives you your distinctive appearance-- yo...
