Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

MAY 18, 2015

For my previous posts click here, Part 1 and Part 2 Below are a series of progress photographs taken as I worked my way through the painting. Moving on from basic blocking in of colour. You can see here I am starting to get past the local colour stage and really moving into finding form using colour. For example look at the fox playing skittles. He is lit from the top by the warm glow of the lanterns (lots of cadmium yellow, yellow ochre and burnt sienna), however the majority of his head is fac

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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

MAY 19, 2015

If you know Zapf Chancery and Zapf Dingbats, you know the faintest shadow of the work of Hermann Zapf. If you know exquisite mid-century books printed in Palatino, you’re getting closer; I never did, having come of age with the brutish digitization of Palatino that shipped with my first laser printer (along with other notable Zapf faces such as Optima and Melior, both too subtle to survive the barbarity of toner at three hundred dots per inch.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

MAY 22, 2015

Artwork by Arnaldo Putzu I'm very pleased to announce, I will be teaching a full time book illustration workshop for 5 days at Marlborough College Summer School, 27th - 31st July. The course will be focusing on illustrating the classic children's story 'Swallows And Amazons' by Arthur Ransome. Summer japes and a jolly good adventure in the English Lake District - what could be better?!

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