Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Charles Dana Gibson

    —

    by

    cparker
    in ,

    Charles Dana Gibson was one of America’s great “Golden Age” illustrators, and one of its finest proponents of pen and ink illustration. He is particularly known for his drawings of the “Gibson Girl”, an idealized example of what at the time was becoming known as the “New Woman”. The Gibson Girl became a symbol of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: John Berkey spacecraft

    —

    by

    cparker
    in ,

    Up in Space, John Conrad Berkey Image is from this article on the always superb One1more2time3’s Weblog (scroll down in the article). (See my post on production designer Hans Bacher’s amazing blog here. If you have not visited this blog, I will issue a Timesink Warning. It’s amazing.) This painting is a wonderful example of…

  • Carl Larsson

    —

    by

    cparker
    in , ,

    Carl Larsson was a Swedish illustrator and gallery artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though he also worked in oil and painted large frescos, Larsson was primarily known for his watercolors. With a deft hand and a light touch, he depicted family and home in particular. In many cases, he used…

  • Brian Ajhar

    —

    by

    cparker
    in ,

    Brian Ajhar is a well known illustrator and character designer whose wonderfully loopy people and animals, both real and imagined, have enlivened the pages of countless periodicals, children books and animations over the past forty years. His style can look so loose and gestural as to appear casually done, but if you stop an look,…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2021!

    —

    by

    cparker
    in

    As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve for the past 15 years, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with another of J.C. Leyendecker’s terrific New Year’s Baby covers for the Saturday Evening Post. Equipped with a pickaxe and shiny lunchpail, our 1921 Leyendecker baby seems ready to get to work…

  • Beleaguered Leyendecker Santa

    —

    by

    cparker
    in

    Another wonderful Saturday Evening Post Santa Claus cover by the brilliant American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, who I think played a major role in forming our modern image of the Jolly One. Here, he is portrayed as not so jolly as he fends off the unwanted attention of the house’s stalwart defender, who apparently doesn’t recognize…