Category: Illustration
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Stephanie Law
Stephanie Law is a watercolor painter from California. Her work ranges from straightforward botanical art to fantastical imaginings with a botanical feel, to stylized animal and plant forms, to fairie images that evoke a feeling of 19th century European illustrators like Rackham and Dulac. Her watercolor paintings often incorporate elements of metal leaf and ink,…
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Frank Sherwin
Frank Sherwin was a British artist active in the early to mid 20th century. He is best known for his delightful travel posters, as well as his traditional watercolors. He also painted watercolors for a number of “carriage prints” (images above, bottom, with details). These were horizontal format banners displayed in railway cars for the…
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Alfonso Font
Alfonso Font is a Spanish comiics artist and illustrator. He has worked o a number of comics projects with other creators, as well as on his oen self-penned stories, Taxi, Clarke & Kubrick and Prisoner of the Stars. Font’s drawing style is a delightful combination of solid draftsmanship and loose gesture ink rendering — given…
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Élisabeth Sonrel
Élisabeth Sonrel was a French painter and illustrator who was active from the late 19th century to the mid-20th. She worked in both Art Nouveau poster style and in a more naturalistic Victorian style of painting.
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Arantza Sestayo
Arantza Sestayo is a Spanish painter and illustrator who works promarily in the genres of fantasy and imaginative realism. Her highly refined paintings and drawngs show the influence of Victorian painting, Art Nouveau and the Pre-Raphaelites. (Her image above, bottom, may be a nod to J. W. Waterhouse’s depiction of jealous Circe.) Sestayo applies her…
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Eye Candy for Today: Maxfield Parrish landscape
Autumn Brook, Maxfield Parrish, oil on board, roughly 23 x 18 in (60 x 46 cm). Link is to past auction on Christies; large image here. Another beautifully realized imaginary landscape by the great American painter and illustrator, Maxfield Parrish.