Category: Illustration
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Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
On December 23, 1823 a poem titled A Visit from St Nicholas was printed anonymously in the Troy, New York Sentinel. Popularly known by its opening line “Twas the Night Before Christmas”, the poem was widely reprinted and authorship eventually assigned to Clement Clarke Moore. It became one of the most familiar verses in American…
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Fred Lynch
Fred Lynch is an illustrator and gallery artist based in Massachusetts who is also a Professor of Illustration at Montserrat College of Art and a member of the Illustration Faculty at Rhode Island School of Design. His illustration clients include Random House, Viking Penguin and the Atlantic Monthly, among others. You will find a selection…
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Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis
I’ve written before about my admiration for the classic instructional books by the early to mid 20th century American illustrator Andrew Loomis. In particular I’ve enthusiastically reviewed two of the superb new editions from Titan Books of his too long out of print classics, Figure Drawing for All it’s Worth and Drawing the Head and…
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Nadezhda Illarionova
I came across the wonderfully “Grimm” illustrations of Russian illustrator and designer Nadezhda Illarionova in a number of blog posts, as well as mentions on magazine sites. Outside of a Flickr set, I can find little that seems like an official web presence, and almost no background information. Her work displays a beautiful use of…
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Eye Candy Extra: Hendrix by Moebius
An alternate Jimi Hendrix album cover by Jean Giraud (Moebius), who was fascinated with Hendrix and portrayed him multiple times. Hendrix would have been 70 today. That makes me feel weird for some reason, but I can’t remember why…
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All Over Coffee on The Rumpus
First of all, if you’re not familiar with Paul Madonna’s wonderful All Over Coffee, you may want to read my previous article on All Over Coffee, or my subsequent post on the second collection, Everything is its own reward, in which I struggle to find sufficient superlatives to describe the feature. Though ostensibly classified as…