Category: Illustration
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Gherardo Cibo’s 16th century watercolor illustrations of medicinal herbs
De Materia Medica is a Greek manual on herbal medicine written by Pedanius Dioscorides in the first century. It was re-issued in the 16th century in an expanded version with annotations by Italian physician Pietro Andrea Mattioli. This version featured illustrations by the artist Gherardo Cibo, who was noted for his interest in botany and…
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Florian Aupetit
Florian Aupetit is a French illustrator, concept artist, art director and “3d generalist” based in Paris. Aupetit has an effective minimalist style of digital painting that is best appreciated in large images, though I’ve tried to give a suggestion of his approach to texture and subtle value changes in some of the detail crops above.…
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Teagan White
Minnesota based illustrator Teagan White takes her inspiration in animal and plant forms, often arranging them in compositions in which they are both representational images and design elements. White appears to work primarily in ink, applying color digitally in Photoshop, or traditionally with watercolor and gouache. She uses a restrained palette, leaning toward earth colors…
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So PineNut
So PineNut is the name given on his Behance gallery for a Japanese artist and illustrator based in Tokyo. Beyond that I have little background information. The images on his Behance gallery are often dark, both in emotional tone and subject; and, unfortunately, in the sense that some of the photographs of the work appear…
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NRM Illustration History resource and archive
Since its inception, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA has sought to expand its focus from a single artist to a relevant context and then more broadly to illustration in general. In that spirit, the museum, through its associated Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, has just launched a new web-based project: Illustration History:…