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Category: Illustration

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2019!

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    As has become my tradition every December 31st for the last 13 years, I’ll wish Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with some of J.C. Leyendecker’s wonderful Saturday Evening Post New Years covers. American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker set our modern conception of representing the new year as a baby, with the use of…

  • J.C. Leyendecker cover illustration for American Weekly

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    Cover illustration for American Weekly, December 19, 1948; J.C. Leyendecker Link is to Heritage Auctions sold lots. Accessing the full high-res image requires a free account, but there is a somewhat smaller version on Tumblr here. At first I thought that this was Leyendecker’s take on the popular song, “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”,…

  • Allen Douglas (update)

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    Allen Douglas is a painter and illustrator whose work I featured back in 2011. As an illustrator, his clients include Penguin, Putnam, Tor, Berkley, Random House, Scholastic, HarperCollins, Harcourt, Little Brown, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, and Wizards of the Coast. Since my previous post, Douglas has initiated a new series of works under the banner of “Cryptid Visions”.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth pen and ink advertising illustration

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    Ad for Etsy Organ in House and Garden, Franklin Booth American artist Franklin Booth, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was known for his marvelously intricate pen and ink illustrations, a style that came largely from the young artist confusing images in magazines that were done in wood engraving with…

  • Adam Oehlers

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    Adam Oehlers is a British illustrator, concept artist and character designer whose work carries a feeling of his admiration for the Golden Age illustrators. Most of the illustration on his website is in a fantasy vein, with wonderfully rendered forest scenes, animals and plant details. He makes effective use of muted, limited palettes, giving the…

  • Edward Julius Detmold

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    Edward Julius Detmold and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold were book illustrators active in the “Golden Age” of illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Both were interested in natural history and animals, and even in their illustrations for books like Kipling’s The Jungle Book and The Fables of Aesop, their images…