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...reissued with extra tracks in Europe and released, via Columbia, in the U.S. So has life changed for Parton and his bandmates? Well, they've given up their day jobs to concentrate on teamwork. "We were all running out of days off," says Bell, the laconic bassist, a former draftsman for an engineering firm. "We were turning down shows and just doing ones at weekends." Now they are touring North America again before traversing Europe. But don't expect big-budget perfection. "I want to keep that shambolic edge to things," says Parton. Do expect to grin and dance along...
...scenes on the ceiling are finished, freed of 478 years of accumulated grime, crude repaints and successive coats of darkened glue size applied as a varnish by 17th and 18th century restorers. A quite different Michelangelo, one whose intensity and beauty of color matches his long-acknowledged grandeur as draftsman and iconographer, emerges. The vault of the Sistine is now the domain of light...
From there he became a draftsman at an electric company in Ipswich, Mass., a greeting-card designer in Long Island City, N.Y., an illustrator and graphic designer in Boston and an art teacher at a vocational high school in Quincy, Mass. But on weekends, throughout all his job changes, he faithfully plugged away at portraits, landscapes and other kinds of painting...
...extraordinary things about Degas was that he was a draftsman like none other, a great master of the pastel, really an innovator in printmaking, and a pioneering photographer as well,” said Wolohojian. “Our collection has truly central works in all those media so that we are able to really assess the full range of the artists’ work...
...David B., author of "Epileptic". (Sfar, whose graphic novel "The Rabbi's Cat" will soon be published by Pantheon, was recently chosen as one of TIME's four comic Innovators.) While both contributors take credit for the writing and art of "Dungeon," Trondheim appears to be the principle draftsman. Wonderfully printed in full color, the special visual style of the books contribute as much to the fun as the smart writing (translated by Joe Johnson, who keeps it cheeky). Filled with details, as the way the Keeper's pipe smoke always coils into little skulls and lost creatures, and wildly...