Category: Illustration
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The illustrators of La Domenica del Corriere
La Domenica del Corriere (“Sunday Courier”) was Sunday insert for Corriere della Sera, an Italian newspaper that ran for 90 years, from 1899 to 1989. For most of that time the section featured a full-page illustration on its cover each week. These were often dramatic gouache or watercolor illustrations, almost in a pulp-illustration vein, but…
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Blurb and Lulu
Suppose you’re meeting an art director and you want to leave behind printed samples of your work. You could print out some pages on your home printer and try to assemble them in an office store report cover, or you could go down to Kinkos and have them print and bind it in some kind…
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Steve Rude: Artist in Motion
I received a copy of Steve Rude: Artist in Motion from Flesk Publications. Flesk is a small specialty art book publisher that was the subject of one of my first posts on lines and colors in which I praised their terrific collections of the work of pen and ink greats Joseph Clement Coll and Franklin…
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John Mattos
John Mattos has applied his crisp, colorful illustration style to editorial illustrations for publications like Time, Newsweek, Forbes, and Fortune; and commercial clients like Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and Citibank. He has taught illustration and drawing at De Anza College, Academy of Art University, and California College of Arts and Crafts and has lectured at UC…
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Glenn Harrington
Glenn Harrington’s figures, portraits and landscapes display a painterly approach and fascination with light that reminds me of Sorolla, Sargent, and some of the painters generally called “American Impressionists“, but with the chiaroscuro temperament of Rembrandt and Carravaggio demanding equal time for darkness. Perhaps the most direct comparison I’m tempted to make would be with…
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Project Gutenberg eBooks, Masters of Water-colour Painting
It’s nice to start the new year by looking forward, but it can be just as instructive to look back; and there are some great resources that make looking back easier and more fruitful than ever. Project Gutenberg is a great idea. Not just in the sense of “great” as “terrific”, but in the sense…