Category: Illustration
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Ronald Kurniawan
Ronald Kurniawan is a Los Angeles based illustrator who graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His highly stylized imagery combines animals and natural forms with geometric constructs, typographic elements, mechanical devices, odd characters and cultural ephemera into marvelous, collage-like visual smorgasbords. His characters careen, gambol and fly through unlikely environments, alternately…
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Gris Grimly
Gris Grimly is the author and illustrator of children’s books like Jordan Ray’s Muddy Spud and the Wicked Nursery Rhymes series. He is also the illustrator for numerous other books, including The Dangerous Alphabet with Neil Gaiman. His web site, Mad Creator Productions, has a showcase of many of them, as well as a portfolio…
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Wake Up, America!
No sleeping in, no blog reading, no excuses; get to the polls and vote. Image above is by James Montgomery Flagg. For more on Flagg, (after you’ve voted), see my post urging you to get out and vote in 2006. Good luck, America.
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Double Lives: American Painters as Illustrators
Long time readers of Lines and Colors know that I take great pleasure in many types of visual art, and that I like to blur and cross the lines between genres. In particular, I like to point out the artificiality of the distinction between illustration and “fine art”. Not that I don’t find it a…
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Tristan Elwell
Tritan Elwell is an illustrator who graduated from the High School of Music and Art in New York and went on to attend the School of Visual Arts there on a full scholarship. In addition he worked as an assistant to photorealist painter Charles Bell. He returned to the School of Visual Arts as an…
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Dream Anatomy
The study of human anatomy has long been a juncture of art and science. The dissection of cadavers, at times forbidden by the church and state, has been of fascination to artists as much as to those endeavoring to figure out how this wondrous collection of bones, flesh and fluids works. Just as the scientific…