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Category: Illustration

  • Istvan Banyai

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    Istvan Banyai is an illustrator and animator originally from Hungary and now living in the U.S. His extensive client list includes The New Yorker, The New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Time, Fortune, Sony Records, Capitol Records Viking Books/Penguin Books, NBC, Random House and many others. His…

  • Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney at NHIA

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    Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that James Gurney is one of my favorite contemporary illustrators, as well as being a superb landscape painter and the author of several books on art technique. Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney is an exhibition that opens today at the New Hampshire Institute of…

  • illustrators magazine

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    illustrators is a new quarterly illustration art magazine from the UK. For those familiar with magazines like ImageS, Illustration and illo (links to my posts), this is a welcome addition to the small range of quarterly publications dedicated to showcasing illustration, both contemporary and classic. In this case it is with a UK and European…

  • Stephen Gilpin

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    Stephen Gilpin is a Kansas based illustrator whose clients include Harper Collins, Random House, Simon and Schuster, Scholastic and the Wall Street Journal. He has a fresh, crisp, cartoon illustration style well suited to his work in children’s book illustration. He strikes a nice balance between rendering and flatter areas of color, while keeping the…

  • The Art of Illustration, PBS Off Book

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    The Art of Illustration is a 7 minute video feature that includes a (very) brief history of illustration from moderator Steve Guarnaccia, and short interviews with illustrators and comics artists Yuko Shimizu, Sean Murphy and Molly Crabapple (above, top to bottom). It is one episode of the continuing PBS web video series Off Book (also…

  • Animal Kingdom at Gallery Nucleus

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    The Animal Kingdom is a show that opened yesterday at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA and runs until March 3, 2013. (Images above: Christopher Buzelli, Jeremy Wilson, Juan Trevieso, Sachin Teng, Lucrezia Bieler, Bill Carman, Joy Ang, Bruce Jensen, Victo Ngai)