19 December, 2007 – 12:03 am
The work of Rowland Hilder (1905 - 1993) is held up for your admiration in this snow scene, #3 in the advent series.
The painting is from an advertisement for beer, and it’s titled ” Whitbread Stout at the Cross Keys Inn”
Please click the thumbnail to see a bigger version.
I swiped this mini-bio from the Kings [...]
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Posted in Art, Colour, Composition, Illustration, Painting
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Also tagged , Art, beer, Painting, poster, pub, Rowland Hilder, snow
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28 November, 2007 – 12:55 am
Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with John Howell.
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Fame Is The Spur was Honor Blackman’s first screen appearance.
John Howells started his long cinematic career in the 1930’s. After the second world war he [...]
18 November, 2007 – 11:24 pm
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been collecting images from my hard drive and cropping them to exactly 770 x 140 pixels. The reason for this is it’s the size of the header image on the portal style blog I set up for the students I teach at Ravensbourne College.
I’ve started with a [...]