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Category: Illustration

  • Tom Lovell (update)

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    Tom Lovell was a superb American illustrator who was active through much of the 20th century. His style ranged from straightforward, classically delineated realism to dramatically composed pulp magazine action to the more graphically designed illustrations often associated with cutting edge mid-century styles. Lovell was particularly influenced by his friend and fellow illustrator Harry Anderson,…

  • James Gurney’s Fantasy in the Wild

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    In his “In the Wild” series of instructional painting videos, painter, illustrator, writer and instructor James Gurney has previously given us Watercolor in the Wild and Gouache in the Wild (links to my reviews), delving into the use of those mediums on location. He has followed up with an interesting variation, Fantasy in the Wild:…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth pen and ink landscape drawing

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    Landscape drawing (untitled), Franklin Booth Link is to Outside Logic, from this page of Franklin Booth drawings. I don’t know of a reference to the title or use of this drawing as an illustration. Golden Age American illustrator Franklin Booth developed his brilliant and unique style of pen and ink illustration from the mistaken assumption…

  • Fian Arroyo

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    Fian Arroyo is an illustrator and character designer based in North Carolina whose clients include The Los Angeles Times, U.S. News and World Report, Houghton Mifflin, Scholastic, Disney, General Motors and The U.S. Postal Service. In the portfolios on his website and Behance pages you’ll find work in a variety of genres, done in a…

  • Ivan Sulima

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    Ivan Sulima is a Ukrainian illustrator who focuses on children’s book illustration. Aside from that, there is little bio information on his website or Behance portfolio. Among his projects is a free interactive iPad book titled Rolling Pea.

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2016!

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    As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve for the past 10 years, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with a few more of J.C. Leyendecker’s terrific New Year’s babies. These are from a three decade run of The Saturday Evening Post covers from the early 20th century. For more, see…