Category: Illustration

Though she had been given art lessons at home as a child, and followed a desire to be an artist into studies at the Art Institute of Chicago and The Art Student’s League in New York, where she studied with William Merritt Chase (see my post on William Merritt Chase), Georgia O’Keeffe stopped making art…

In a way somewhat analogous Franklin Booth’s unintentional pen and ink imitation of engraved illustrations in the books of his time (the result of innocent ignorance of printing processes), contemporary illustrator Peter Siu deliberately uses pen and ink to emulate the visual charm and delicate detail of wood engravings. Though the process is reminiscent of…

Illo is a terrific, too-infrequently appearing magazine about contemporary illustration, published by Daniel Zimmer. Zimmer also publishes Illustration magazine, which focuses on classic illustration. For some bockground on both magazines, see my post from 2007 on Illustration Magazine and Illo. After an all-too-long hiatus, Illo is back with a second issue, even stronger than the…

Robert MacKenzie is a California born artist currently living in New York City and working for Blue SKy Studios, the film and animation development studio whose credits include the Ice Age movies, Horton Hears a Who and Robots. On his blog MacKenzie occasionally posts about his work with Blue Sky, but more often chronicles his…

Ivan Titor is a Czech painter whose work floats in that hazy twilight between representational and non-representational painting. He paints objects, but they are often not identifiable. You might fit them into the category of freely imagined or hallucinatory landscapes. As such he puts me in mind of Surrealists and Dadaists like Yves Tanguy and…

William James Aylward was a student of the great American illustrator Howard Pyle, and carried forth Pyles’ masterful control of tone, color and pictorial drama. Aylward was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin, son of a shipbuilder and Great Lakes ship captain, and had a lifelong fascination with ships and marine subjects, which Pyles’ wonderful pirate ships…