Category: Illustration
-
Jan Lievens
Our picture of art history, including the relative importance we assign to individual artists, is always changing; and a good thing too, as inaccuracies and jaded opinions often need to be corrected. This is the aim of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, called Jan Lievens: A dutch Master Rediscovered.…
-
Shaun Tan on InFrame.tv
InFrame.tv, a video podcast out of Melbourne, Australia with a focus on arts, design and culture, has a nicely done segment on multi-talented illustrator and author Shaun Tan, who I wrote about previously here and here. In it, Tan talks about the adaptation of one of his books, The Lost Thing (images at top) into…
-
Leong Wan Kok
Leong Wan Kok is a Malaysian comics artist and illustrator currently living in Kuala Lumpur. His wonderfully eccentric and at times intricately detailed images combine stylized, cartoon-like figures with intense rendering. His darkly bizarre subject matter is accentuated by his choice of a dark palette and lots of textural variation, and highlighted with accents of…
-
Shawn McKelvey
Shawn McKelvey is a California illustrator and landscape painter. Unfortunately, his three blog-based sites include little background information, other than to say he has been a freelance illustrator since 1988, with clients in the advertising, entertainment and toy industries. His commercial work includes children’s book illustrations, backgrounds and illustrations for licensed properties and board game…
-
Scenes of the Season at Brandywine River Museum
There’s a tendency to think of landscape painting as primarily a summer activity, or at least one of diminished interest in the Winter, both because of the inconvenience of painting in the cold, and the expectation of less color in the winter landscape. Quite to the contrary, many painters and illustrators found great subjects in…
-
Larry Roibal
Larry Roibal is an illustrator known for his work in children’s books and romance novels. His portfolio has examples from those areas as well as landscapes and portraits. Roibal’s blog is often devoted to portraits of another sort, chronicling his practice of sketching character studies of people currently in the news directly on newspaper articles…