Category: Illustration
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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.
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Henry Justice Ford
Henry Justice Ford (AKA Henry J. Ford or H. J. Ford) was a popular British illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. Ford’s primary medium was pen and ink, but he also worked in watercolor. Though his skill in those mediums may not have been quite as refind as that of some…
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Eye Candy for Today: Illustration by François Schuiten
Le panorama de Calvani, François Schuiten, illustration for Le Musée des Ombres by Schuiten & Peters A wonderful illustration by Belgian comics artist François Schuiten who is known for his striking drawings of imaginative architecture. From this page on the Alta Plana website.
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A Cavalcade of Santas
Our image of Santa Claus comes primarily from the interpretations of illustrators over time. Here are a few examples. Despite the fact hat Nast had given Santa his physical form and Reginald Marsh dressed him in the red suit with white cuffs, I think it’s J.C. Leyendecker to whom we owe our most complete contemporary…
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A few thoughts on “AI Art”
I will begin as a curmudgeon and state that I think the term “artificial intelligence” is overly generous when applied to the current level of this technology, and would be better reserved for future systems that are more likely to fulfill the expectations created by the term “intelligence”. In an effort to neatly sidestep the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s Autumn
Autumn, Alphonse Mucha; color lithograph, roughly 40 x 21 inches (103 x 54cm) Image sourced from here; direct link here; info here. This is one of the panels from Mucha’s first and perhaps most successful series of decorative panels, The Seasons, which he created in 1896. This and Summer are my favorites from the series.…