Russ Cook: Grand Master

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Magnus Carlsen

Norwegian chess champ, Magnus. A grandmaster at thirteen! - Blimey.

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Russ Cook: Oxford, United Kingdom; I'm an illustrator, caricature artist, limner & scribbler.

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Welcome to the blog. Check in fairly regularly and you should at least be able to see a quick pencil sketch, if not a painted canvas, appear often enough to make it worth your while.
You'll also be able to keep up to date on any illustration news that is worth imparting.

For a more comprehensive look at past caricature work then please visit my site at http://www.russcook.co.uk/ where you will find various galleries of heroes, rogues, thesp's, muso's and scribers. An alternative site which will cover all other illustration is soon to be started and details of it will be posted here when it is finished. In the meantime, examples of general illustration will appear on this blog alongside the more 'centre staged' caricature work.

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As someone who shrinks from censorship I would actively encourage you to say what you want, how you want.

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With that in mind, can I suggest that in a general atmosphere of (moderate) decorum that if you feel you have to express your comments and advice, praise or disgust in a more earthy form of anglo-saxon then you may well find your entry bowdlerised.
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Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Magnus Carlsen

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