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Free Valentines Day Icon Set

reADactor — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:16:50 +0000

Icons Designed By Cuberto

Icon Set Shared By our Friends at Smashing Magazine, thanks guys.

Artist Of The Week: Nico Di Mattia

reADactor — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:51:12 +0000

His interest in arts, comic books, animation and narration, and his passion for drawing and colors compelled him to enter the Cinema and TV school at Cordoba`s National University.

His first Speed Painting was in 2001 where he painted the poster from the movie Planet of The Apes on his bedroom wall and recorded the process on VHS. In 2007 Di Mattia moved on to the big stage by opening his own Speed Paining Channel on YouTube. He now has thousands of subscribers and his videos have been watched over 55 Million times.

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Contemporary Classicism Painting by Kinuko Y Craft

reADactor — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:51:40 +0000

Kinuko Craft is a Renaissance woman. By this I mean not that she paints like the Renaissance painters, but that she is an artist for all seasons, for all kinds of subjects, and in all kinds of styles. Her narrative art has included paintings for the book covers of many well known fantasy authors, opera posters, fairy tale books, and covers for many national magazines.

Ms. Craft is a graduate, BFA 1962, of The Kanazawa Municipal College of Fine and Industrial Art (known in Japan as The Kanazawa Bidai). She was born in Japan and came to the United States in the early sixties where she continued studies in design and illustration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a year and a half. Subsequently, she worked for several years in well known Chicago art studios. Since the mid 1990’s, she has concentrated on children’s picture books, fantasy book jackets and poster designs.

Where to find Ms. Kinuko Y Craft on the web

Charcoal and pastel portraits by Dirk Dzimirsky

reADactor — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:39:39 +0000

The artist choose drawing over painting as this allows him to create many layers over layers of lines and dots which react to each other in order to create a vibrant texture with directions and movement. This approach enables the finished work to be viewed more by the “senses” as opposed to the standard visual observation of a photo.

For Dirk Dzimirsky the practice of drawing is view as “reminiscent of scratching on a surface to observe what’s hidden underneath, where as the nature of painting projects more the inverse, covering and hiding details and forms that might have contributed to a sensuality of a work”.

Where to find Dirk Dzimirsky on web

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reADactor — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:55:35 +0000

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Vivid Digital Paintings of Michal Dziekan

reADactor — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:30:19 +0000

Where to find Michal Dziekan on web

55 Inspirational Birds Theme Logos

reADactor — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:22:10 +0000

Not many animals have such a strong mark in our minds regarding the visual identities, like birds. Even there are over 10000 known species of birds in the world, when is talk about corporate identity, is true, we find a strong cliché. Do you have a grill related business? The the chicken get skinned. Do you have a delivery service business? Course, you will like some wings in your logo, rite? What about a guard or security company? “The eagle” claim the crowd. Oh, you can do more then that, because your professional profile is book, study, learning, teaching related. An owl with glasses is all what you need, correct? Yes, cannot end this endless list without to mention the nonprofit organizations. Is possible to have a logo for a such profile without some graphical hands with a dove? No, you can’t!

Is known that the clients have strong ideas and they pay the bills. Is hard to believe that like branding designer to have too much freedom in choosing the logo elements, but, at least you can find a new way to express something overused. The following list contain logos with bird theme what achieve nice results using fine ideas or a good graphic realization.

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reADactor — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:44:57 +0000

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Surrealism Art of Anton Semenov

reADactor — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:51:40 +0000

Anton use Adobe Photoshop for his artworks and prove great skills on Painting & Airbrushing technique. Even he start to pay a serious attention to the digital area just from 2007, is easy to see a background of years of trainings and exercises with traditional techniques, pencils, paint, ink etc. This is a strong lesson for the young “digital generation”, if you want to be good in digital graphic art, then, put the hand on the pencil and paper.

Enkel Dika’s expressive graphic imagination

reADactor — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:08:14 +0000