Category: Illustration
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Richard Cowdrey
Richard Cowdrey is an Ohio based illustrator with a particular affinity for animals. He has illustrated numerous books for children and teens including the popular Bad Dog, Marley and its follow-up A Very Marley Christmas, as well as the NYT Bestselling series Guardians of Ga’hoole. In addition to owls and dogs, other animals feature prominently…
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More Gustav Tenggren treasures from ASIFA
The indefatigable archivists at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive continue to amaze, amuse, entertain and enlighten us with great examples of Golden Age illustration that are being added to their database. Notably, they have added to their considerable reserve of dazzlingly beautiful illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren, an underappreciated Swedish illustrator who I wrote about previously here…
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Arthur Mount (update)
What strikes me about Arthur Mount’s crisp, clean illustrations is what he leaves out. I’m not just talking about the degree to which he simplifies his images, extracting from his reference material just those visual elements that are crucial to conveying the subject, but the line he draws (if you’ll excuse the expression) between a…
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Eric Bowman
Eric Bowman is a painter and illustrator originally from Southern California and now based in the Pacific Northwest. After years as a successful illustrator, Bowman is apparently focusing on his passion for plein air painting and figure work. His painting site has galleries of recent work, an archive of older work, and figure studies. He…
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Anna Richards Brewster
When looking at the history of art, which in may ways reflects social history, I can’t help but think about how many potentially terrific artists we’ve been denied because women were discouraged or actively prohibited from being artists. Anna Richards Brewster was active at the turn of the 20th Century, a time when it was…
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Austin Briggs
I mentioned in my recent article on Giovanni Bellini that our perception of artists is often altered by the gravitational lens of closely associated artists, the more well known artists often eclipsing those who are less familiar. When I first encountered Austin Briggs, it was in collections of his work on the Flash Gordon newspaper…