Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

DECEMBER 8, 2014

I now realise I have a back log of artwork to post! Firstly I had better tie up the lose end from my previous WIP post. Here is the, now complete, painting called 'Catching Butterflies' Catching Butterflies Watercolour & Gouache 24 x 31cm I used three distinct techniques to paint this whimsical image of a stoat chasing butterflies. The first was to work wet in wet to build up the soft trees in the background, I had to be very careful not to encroach on the hat and net.

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Illustration Art

DECEMBER 11, 2014

In the 1960s, illustrators suddenly became much better at painting action. Contrast this illustration of a tennis player from 1956.with this illustration of a tennis player from 1961: Bernie Fuchs for Sports Illustrated It's hard to believe two such different approaches were popular just a few years apart. They seem to come from different worlds. Prior to the 1960s, illustrators often tried to capture action the way a camera did, simply freezing the scene: Occasionally illustrators might try to

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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

DECEMBER 9, 2014

In search of the perfect form for each of a font’s thousands of characters, typeface designers sometimes encounter questions that have more than one answer. Perhaps a flowery capital Q captures a font’s elegance, but one with a shorter tail is more practical when there’s no room for flourish. Perhaps a smart and serious typeface suddenly becomes cool and playful, with a subtle alteration to its lowercase a.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Still catching up with my art back log. Here's another painting for you: Air Mail Watercolour / Gouache 24 x 31cm Again these two characters feature in 'A Quarter Past One On Platform Ten' in the top left swooping under the arched station roof. I'd like to think there are different birds used to deliver post depending on the destination, maybe seagulls for the coast, an albatross for long over sea journeys (especially in the North) and an owl for night dispatch.

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