Ring the bell, sucka -- school's back in

Linkparking a bunch of art-educational and illustration pages/sites:

A swell archive of "classes" in the Famous Artists Cartoon Course.

John Kricfalusi's lessons from Preston Blair

Rad Sechrist's HOW TO

Rob Richards' ANIMATION BACKGROUNDS, which are fascinating and oddly funny to see without the actors in front of them.

Some J.P. Miller books at GOLDEN GEMS

A cache of personal Christmas cards from mid-Twentieth Century artists, including Ernie Bushmiller, Rube Goldberg, Otto Soglow, William Steig and Edward Hopper as well as my recent new-favorite, Frank Hanley.

An info site devoted to the irreverent prewar girly movie magazine FILM FUN and its Enoch Bolles-painted covers.

Scott C.'s GREAT SHOWDOWNS -- art plus words, people

Will Finn's righteously savages a deeply misguided piece of FLINTSTONES art

Anne Bush's digital background tutorial

Via Dylan Horrocks and/or Sam Zabel, I recently rediscovered Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema at the Art Renewal Center. Sir Lawrence painted sun-warmed marble like nobody's business.

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