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Fantastic Universe Book Covers

If vintage illustrations, comics and book covers appeal to you, click over to GoldenAgeComicBookStories.blogspot.com to see everything from sci-fi and pin-up girls, to westerns, knights and pirate stories.

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by Rosey Lakos
I am not really sure when or why the housewife theme came into my work, but it first showed up photographically while I was working at City College in San Francisco. I wrote a lot while I was there and the character of a repressed 1940s American woman began developing in my sketch [...]

The Art of Staples

Nice piece right? Lots of anatomical detail, a beautiful sense of movement, big enough to fill a wall…it’s really lovely.
Now look a little closer.

Mind sufficiently blown? Good. Me too.
Title: Aggravure
Artist: Baptiste Debombourg
Medium: 35,000 staples
Time: 75 hours
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The Evolution of a Photographer Pt. 3

by Rosey Lakos
I felt very self-conscious about going to art school because I had never considered myself to be a serious artist. I fell right in step in the photo department and it turned out to be a great fit for me, but it took me longer to feel comfortable and capable as an “artist.”
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