Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • N.C. Wyeth’s Independence Day

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    Independence Day (At Concord Bridge), N.C. Wyeth, oil on canvas, 33 x 30 in. (85 x 77 cm), Image is from a Sotheby’s auction in 2021. (Click on the image twice to get the larger version.) Presumably the original is in a privete collection. The great American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth, like his teacher…

  • John Mattos (update)

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    John Mattos is an award winning illustrator with an impressive client list, based in California, who I first featured back in 2008. He works in a beautiful Art Deco influenced style that takes advantage of the crispness and smooth areas of gradients made possible by vector art. His striking compositional sensibility has produced a number…

  • Horace Knowles

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    Horace J Knowles was a British writer and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his illustrations for fairland and fairy tales, as well as biblical illustrations and pieces to accompany poetry. He worked in black and white, in a style that shows the influence of Art Nouveau as well…

  • Oliver Bonhomme

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    Oliver Bonhomme is a French illustrator and art director with a long client list that inludes le Monde, the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Apple and numerous others. His illustrations look at first to be high in chroma, but then you realize the colors are not actually that intense, but are made to…

  • Angela Hao

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    Angela Hao lives and works in the U.S., but makes virtual visits to Japan via Google Street view, capturing the charm of small, quirky storefronts in digital ink and watercolor style illustrations she creates in Procreate. These are delightlfully whimsical and take note of the small details that give each little store its own personality.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s The Seasons: Spring

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    Alphonse Mucha, who is the most widely recognized figure of the style we know as Art Nouveau, at one time called “Le style Mucha”, created three series of posters in which he portrayed the fourseasons as young women surrounded by elements associated with the season. This is his interpretaion of Spring from the first of…