Category: Illustration
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Ed Binkley
Concept artist and illustrator Ed Binkley has crafted a style of illustration that seems at once old and new. His finely detailed, almost monochromatic images feel as though they are from another time, or perhaps another place, with fantasy subjects inhabiting misty woods and glades, all drawn with meticulous care. Despite the level of detail…
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Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
A “Book or hours” (Wikipedia) is a devotional text of prayers, stories and psalms common in the Middle Ages. Though they followed similar forms, each was unique and, of course, hand lettered. Many of them were illuminated, but few as lavishly and beautifully as the one known as The Hours of Catherine of Cleves. It…
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Black & White ImageS: The Fifth Special Collection
We are jaded by an abundance of color images. Dazzled, distracted and spoiled by color’s overt and often brash appeal, we can easily lose sight of the sublime pleasures to be had in the appreciation of black and white artwork. There is a visual charm and magic to black and white images that is difficult…
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Tadahiro Uesugi (update)
The good news is that since I last wrote about the wonderfully expressive and brilliantly realized illustrations of Tadahiro Uesugi back in 2005, many more examples of his work have been added to his web site. The bad news is that the site is still in frames and as awkward as ever to navigate. The…
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Jeremy Enecio
Born in the Philippines, Jeremy Enecio came to the U.S. when he was four, grew up in Maryland and studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He later attended the Illustration Academy program in Florida on a full scholarship from the Society of Illustrators. He currently works as a concept artist at Big Huge…
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Sergio Martinez
Born in Mexico, Sergio Martinez studied art at the Academie de la Gandre Chaumiere in Paris, and has had a long career in illustration for book and advertising clients in France, Switzerland, Spain, UK, Mexico, the US and other countries in Central and South America. That I haven’t encountered his work until recently just boggles…