Category: Illustration
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PJ Lynch
PJ Lynch is an Irish illustrator currently living in Dublin. His award winning illustrations have appeared in numerous books, illustrating both modern stories and new versions of classics. Lynch has also been commissioned to design posters for Opera Ireland and the Abbey Theatre, created murals for the Cavan County Library based on Gulliver’s Travels and…
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COLOURlovers
COLOURlovers is a community site devited to the exchange of colors and information about color and color trends. Aimed primarily at designers, the heart of the site is the posting of various color palettes created by members. Of more interest to artists, however, is the COLOURlovers Color + Design Blog, which I mentioned in my…
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Robin Eley
Robin Eley is an Australian illustrator based in Adelaide. Eley was born in the UK, raised in Australia and trained in the U.S. at Westmont College and the Illustration Academy. Eley paints in acrylic and oil, in a kind of interpretive realism that combines direct representational and stylized images. This is particularly evident in his…
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More Leyendecker and other great stuff
OK, I realize I just posted about the amazing Golden Age illustrator J.C. Leyendecker a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve written about him half a dozen times in the past, but I have this general rule that says there’s no such thing as too much Leyendecker. The first item I want to tell you…
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Mark A. Garlick
No, It’s not fireworks, at least not of the terrestrial variety. (For the benefit of those in other parts of the world, I’ll point out that today, July 4th, is Independence Day here in the U.S., a holiday usually associated with fireworks displays.) The fireworks shown here are celestial, in an interpretation of a supernova,…
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Guy Billout
Guy Billout seems fascinated with patterns, whether of hedgerow mazes, the multiple columns of colonnades, tiled floors or repeated structures; particularly those patterns that lead us to one conclusion, only to be presented with another. Billout is a French illustrator who deals in quiet irony. His images are still and contemplative, even when portraying dramatic…