Category: Illustration
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Peder Mork Mønsted
Peder Mork Mønsted was a Danish painter active in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Looking through his work you will find lush, color saturated paintings of his native Denmark, where Mønstead studied at the Copenhagen Academy, as well as landscapes from lands where he traveled, including Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, North Africa and Italy.…
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Harry Grant Dart
Harry Grant Dart was an American illustrator and comics artist active in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. He worked for the Boston Herald and then the New York World, where he eventually held the position of Art Editor. He was one of the newspaper sketch artists who sketched important events for newspapers prior to…
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Alex Niño
There are a number of strong communities of comics art (those of you in the expensive seats read: “graphic storytelling”) in various parts of the world, each with its own stylistic leanings. Some, like Japan, France and Belgium are more familiar to us here in the U.S. than others, like Italy, the UK, South America,…
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Dean Cornwell in Illustration Magazine
As I mentioned in my previous article on Dean Cornwell, he was a second generation inheritor of the traditions of the Brandywine School of American illustration, having studied with Harvey Dunn, a student of Howard Pyle. Cornwell’s other major influence was painter and muralist Frank Brangwyn, with whom he studied when he turned his career…
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Colin Stimpson (update)
The classic story of Hansel and Gretel informed us of the alarming eating habits of witches, who love to lure children into their gingerbread houses, fatten them up with sweets, snap them into the oven and cook them right up. Yum. How unsophisticated, though, and how simply old fashioned by today’s standards of cooking shows…
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The Totoro Forest Project
Hayao Miyazaki, arguably the foremost director of anime (Japanese animation), has long been concerned with issues of the conservation of the natural world. It is evident in his work, in films that deal directly with the subject, like Princess Mononoke, and as a pervasive theme through all of his films, though the subject is never…