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For this Featured Artist, I am interviewing someone I met through Twitter (follow me). I found her images to be quite inspiring in their imaginative composition. I also love interviewing people that I find inspiring and especially those I think are rising artists. It is a good way to find out what or how they are thinking of things and how they work. And of course I have to share so that I am not the only one that benefits. Also, hopefully Leslie will get more of an audience to share her work. You can find her either here on flickr or on Leslie’s website. So with that, on with the interview.
What is the first creative or artistic thing you remember doing?
It started with drawing when I was just a kid. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: birds, dream, fairy tale, interview
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One of my favorite photography subjects is urban exploration and abandoned building photography. Unfortunately, I am unable to do much, if any, urban exploration (urbex) because I live in such a rural location. I do occasionally get to some abandoned houses, but time only permits so much. So I approached photographer Chris Maskell, who is based in London to ask him a few questions and feature his great HDR work.
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Tags: abandoned, dangerous, featured artist, HDR, interview, photographer, Photoshop, urban exploration, urbex
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As a young boy I always had the great opportunity to know a real live artist. Before I really knew of any famous artists both modern and historical I could look up to my uncle Dwight Donarski. He is a phenomenal illustrator that gave my parents a drawing of my brother and I of which they proudly hung on the wall. I was always amazed at his skill with the pencil and fancied that I could one day grow up to be like him. I still don’t think I have the technical skill that he empowers. He was the first to teach me shading with my crayons as a child and I have been encouraged and inspired by him ever since. I thought to share an interview I conducted with him so that others may be inspired by him as well.
I’m the younger one in this drawing from 1988:
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Tags: drawing, faces, figure, fine art
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This month’s Featured Artist is Patrick Loehr. I came upon his work in an accidental way by picking up his first children’s book, Mucumber McGee and the Half-Eaten Hot Dog
in a bargain bin.
I liked the artwork from the start and read maybe a page or two at the store and decided it was definitely worth a purchase. I got it home and read it to my son. For any of those that have a two year old, you can understand that it isn’t easy to keep one still long enough to finish a book, even one so short, but he was attentive the entire time. As for me, I loved not only the illustration style but the writing as well. I highly recommend picking it up whether you have kids or not.
I don’t have it yet, but Patrick has a second children’s book Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cover, dark, Edward Gorey, interview, victorian
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I am starting a new series on the blog where I feature artists, whether photographer, painter, sculptor, designer, illustrator, or anything else, that I admire and appreciate their work. I don’t know how regular this will be, but something I will come back to from time to time.
In my first featured artist spot, I am promoting photographer Christopher Lane, and no, I am not so narcissistic to feature myself (I do that enough already through this blog!). This is the Christopher Lane that comes up first when you search Google for Christopher Lane photography.
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Tags: cheeky, England, interview, portrait
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