Category: Illustration
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Eye Candy for today: Maximilian Liebenwein illustration
Walk of Mary across the mountains, Maximilian Liebenwein. Maximilian Liebenwein was an Austrian/German illustrator active during the “Golden Age” of illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I’m unsure what the medium is here, but it looks like watercolor and gouache to me. I sourced the image from here, larger version here. For…
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Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban
Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban were Austrian born illustrators and stage scene designers who collaborated as well as working independently. In addition, Lefler was a painter and Urban an architect, and they were brothers-in-law. They were active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I have not idea how to sort out who did…
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Jon Juarez
Jon Juarez is a visual development artist, illustrator, cartoonist and screenwriter based in San Sebastian, Spain. He works in a line and color style with a high key and often high chroma palette.
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Li Yong Hong
Chinese illustrator Li Yong Hong works in scratchboard, a medium that is almost the inverse of pen and ink. Instead of drawing in ink directly on a white surface, scratchboard is done on a white board that is coated with clay and then coated with a layer of black ink. The black surface is scratched…
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Eye Candy for Today: Dean Cornwell untitled illustration
This painting by the fantastic American Illustrator Dean Cornwell is in the collection of the South Dakota Art Museum. The museum doesn’t have a title or source reference for where the painting was used as an illustration (if it was published), but the painting is wonderful nonetheless. I haven’t see the original, but I’ve taken…
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The Artist’s Magazine – Imaginative Realism
The March/April issue of The Artists Magazine is devoted to imaginative painting and magical realism. The cover and lead article feature the beautiful painting by James Gurney shown in the images above, and a step-through of his process in creating it. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing this particular painting in person, and it’s a…