Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Denise Ramsay

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    Denise Ramsay is a botanical artist originally from New Zealand, who now divides her time between Hong Kong and a cottage in the southwest region of France. Ramsay paints keenly observed and intricately realized watercolors of flowers and other plants, sometimes at a fairly large scale, in watercolor. Her paintings are bold and dynamic, apparently…

  • Arthus Pilorget

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    Arthus Pilorget is French concept artist, illustrator and visual development artist based in Lyon. He graduated from the remarkable Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Gobelins School of Communications) in Paris, and has been working on a nmber of animation projects since. He has a lively, vibrant style with a nice edge of darkness and feeling of…

  • Gaby D’Alessandro

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    Originally from the Dominican Republic and currently based in Brooklyn, Gaby D’Alessandro is an illustrator whose clients include The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The National Audubon Society, NPR and The American Museum of Natural History. D’Alessandro has a particular strength in her depictions of scientific concepts and historical figures.…

  • Cameron Mousavi

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    Cameron Mousavi is a freelance illustrator and visual development artist based in the Los Angeles area. Mousavi works in an appealingly naturalistic style, with the kind of feeling for texture and atmosphere that suggests experience in painting from life. I particularly like his drawings and architectural renderings.

  • Matthieu Forichon

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    French illustrator Matthieu Forichon works in vector illustration, an approach that lends itself well to his crisp, elegant portrayals of fashion, travel, food and drink for clients like Louis Vuitton, Nespresso, Lillet, Camus cognacs & Neuhaus chocolates. I find particular appeal in his use of dramatic lighting in interiors and Parisian night scenes. Forichon’s website…

  • Bror Anders Wikstrom

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    With the exception of the more straightforward watercolor (images above, bottom), the rest of these wild and wonderfully realized watercolor illustrations are designs for New Orleans carnival parade floats from the early part of the 20th century by Swedish/American artist Bror Anders Wikstrom. Wikstrom originally went to sea as a young man, but his career…