#7 Who knows the painting that I was inspired by? It's a celebration of boredom, a cool blue room...and a dog.
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Part 5: Art History for Illustrators: Andrew Wyeth with subtle color and limited pallets- light was so specific to him, that when I visited his studio, I felt like each window and object in his house was familiar already. And of course he loved his hound dogs!
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Part 4: I had a serious William Blake phase...English majors often do. It was after the Sylvia Plath phase and before the beat poetry obsession. He was quite the weirdo...and his illustrations were definitely missing dogs.
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#3 It is NOT COOL to love John Singer Sargent, but yet here we are. Ethereal and luminescent, JSS, master of light, impossibly creates space using flat blocks of color. This painting? The only thing it lacks is a dog.
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An art history series for kidlit artists! Anyone else a Ben Shahn fanatic? In his work, one line can be so expressive, that its tiny sliver of space narrates an entire story. This is my drawing of Liberation, 1947. What artists do you study to obsess over line quality?
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