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Month: December 2010

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2011!

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    In spite of the fact that I’ve featured him twice just in the past two weeks, I’ll continue my tradition of ringing out the old year and bringing in the new with a couple of New Year’s babies from J.C. Leyendecker, the American illustrator who started the practice of representing the new year as a…

  • Hendrick Avercamp and the “Little Ice Age”

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    So what to you do in the winter when the ground is covered in snow and the rivers are frozen over? Get out and enjoy of course. Though we have other, more familiar names associated with 17th Century scenes of gatherings on the ice of frozen rivers and streams in Dutch towns (notably Bruegel), Avercamp…

  • Illustration Magazine Archives, Online Free in Fullscreen

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    Wow. I’ve raved before about Dan Zimmer’s beautifully edited, produced and printed Illustration Magazine. Devoted to classic illustration, this magazine is, in a way, more like a series of short books, with in-depth, profusely illustrated articles about great illustrators. While most magazines are stingy about putting their precious content online, Zimmer has made every issue…

  • Wil Freeborn

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    Wil Freeborn is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Though his professional portfolio focuses on his (quite nice) graphic design rather than illustration, his blog features a number of wonderful sketches. These are of a variety of subjects — cafe and store interiors, schoolrooms, townscapes, landscapes and a particularly nice series of…

  • Jake Baddeley

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    Jake Baddeley gives little information about himself on his website, save to call himself a symbolist painter and artist. Looking through his work, I see classical training, influences from the Surrealists and Magic Realists, and a fascination with the art and invention of the Renaissance. He uses a muted, controlled palette, with passages of restrained…

  • Winter snows from George Gardner Symons

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    For those in the U.S. and Europe digging out, or still being covered in the titanium whites and cobalt blues of winter precipitation, I’ll relay a gentle reminder from American artist George Gardner Symons, noted for his beautiful winter scenes, that yes, snow can be beautiful, and yes, it eventually melts, and yes, Spring will…