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Author: cparker

  • J.C. Leyendecker cover illustration for American Weekly

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    Cover illustration for American Weekly, December 19, 1948; J.C. Leyendecker Link is to Heritage Auctions sold lots. Accessing the full high-res image requires a free account, but there is a somewhat smaller version on Tumblr here. At first I thought that this was Leyendecker’s take on the popular song, “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”,…

  • Peder Mønsted winter landscape

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    Snowy Forest Road in Sunlight, Peder Mørk Mønsted The link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons from which you can download a high-resolution image. The original is in a private collection. A beautiful evocation of winter to mark the Winter Solstice. I love how much green and red Monsted has worked into the painting.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Horace Vernet landscape

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    Departure for the Hunt in the Pontine Marshes, Horace Vernet Oil on canvas, roughly 40 x 60 inches ( 100 x 150 cm); in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Vernet was a French painter active in the early 19th century, and his subjects included battles and historic events, portraits and…

  • Allen Douglas (update)

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    Allen Douglas is a painter and illustrator whose work I featured back in 2011. As an illustrator, his clients include Penguin, Putnam, Tor, Berkley, Random House, Scholastic, HarperCollins, Harcourt, Little Brown, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, and Wizards of the Coast. Since my previous post, Douglas has initiated a new series of works under the banner of “Cryptid Visions”.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth pen and ink advertising illustration

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    Ad for Etsy Organ in House and Garden, Franklin Booth American artist Franklin Booth, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was known for his marvelously intricate pen and ink illustrations, a style that came largely from the young artist confusing images in magazines that were done in wood engraving with…

  • Sylvain Sarrailh

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    Sylvain Sarrailh is a French illustrator, concept artist and environment designer working primarily in the gaming field. He has worked with companies like Guerrilla Games, Illumination Entertainment, Rocksteady, Amplitude, Sony Picture Animation, Ubi Soft and Dreamworks. Given the dark and grungy vein of illustration common within that industry, Sarrailh (who also goes by the handle…