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Category: Illustration

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2020!

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    As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve Since 2006, 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. See my 2006 post for background on the origin of the Leyendecker New Years baby covers for the Saturday Evening…

  • Gediminas Pranckevičius

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    Gediminas Pranckevičius is a Lithuanian illustrator who works in the fields of advertising, book and album covers, gaming and children’s books. He has a jaunty,energetic style rendered with nice touches of lighting and texture. His website is divided into sections by project type. I particularly enjoy his the imaginary landscapes in his “Secret place” section.…

  • Carlos Schwabe

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    Though some of his literary subject matter and style characteristics have much in common with Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite artists, German-Swiss painter and printmaker Carlos Schwabe is considered to be a Symbolist. Schwabe was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his work presented a variety of themes and approaches. [Note: some…

  • Another Norman Rockwell exhausted Santa

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    Another of Norman Rockwell’s tired Santa illustrations, this one before rather than after his world-round ride, as in the illustration I featured in this post from 2017. I love the fact that Santa is apparently oblivious to the elf on his shoulder hanging onto his ear as he leans out to point. Source for the…

  • Will Terry

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    Will Terry is freelance illustrator with a history of both editorial and children’s book illustration. His emphasis currently is on the latter, and he has worked with publishers like Random House, Simon Schuster, Scholastic, Penguin, Klutz, and Albert Whitman. He has also created widely circulated indie ebooks and is the co-founder of the online children’s…

  • Austin Briggs, The Consumate Illustrator

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    I initially encountered the work of Austin Briggs (see my previous post) in his role as a comics artist — working as an assistant to the great Alex Raymond, and eventually ghosting Raymond’s Flash Gordon newspaper strip, and taking over in a credited role on Secret Agent X-9. Briggs’ work in comics was a sideline,…