Category: Illustration
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Sergei Aparin
Sergi Aparin is a contemporary Russian painter currently living and working in Belgrade. Unlike many of the newer artists who are often classed as “Pop Surrealism”, Aparin is working firmly in the vein of the classic Surrealist artists like Dali and Magritte. In particular his work shows the influence of the Spanish Surrealist, but not…
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Jon Foster (update)
When I point you to web based resources for images from the artists I feature on lines and colors, I don’t emphasize nearly enough how limited those images are when compared to images in print. I’m second to none in my appreciation for how well images can display on screen. I was one one of…
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Olga Dugina & Andrej Dugin
Olga Dugina and Andrej Dugin paint lavishly detailed, richly textured and enthrallingly odd illustrations for children’s books. Their intricately detailed paintings can, in turn, carry the feeling of Medieval tempera paintings, the grotesque fantasies of Bosch and Breugel, the carefully arranged tableaus of renaissance tapestries and, in the their collaboration with Madonna (yes, that Madonna)…
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BibliOdyssey
Well, it happened again. I was trying once again to bring you this post and I got lost. You see, I fell down a rabbit hole, found myself among the very large and the very small, and as everything became curiouser and curiouser, lost myself wandering in wide eyed fascination through a seemingly endless wonderland…
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Gary Locke
There is a style in illustration, particularly advertising illustration, in which exaggerated, cartoon-like drawings are rendered in detailed style usually applied to more realistic images. It’s a nice idea that is harder than it looks and consequently rarely done well. Gary Locke is one of the few illustrators who gets it right. His wonderfully exaggerated…
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August Hall
August Hall is a California based illustrator and concept artist. He has done work for Industrial Light and Magic, Pixar Animation, and Dreamworks. He has also done covers for DC Comics’ Vertigo line. That’s about the extent of what I know about him except that I like what I’ve seen of his work. The one…