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Category: Illustration

  • Guido Daniele

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    Guido Daniele is an italian painter and illustrator based in Milan. In 2000, Daniele started creating his “Handimals”, in which he applies body painting techniques to hands, poses them in positions that, along with the painting, result in images that resemble animals, portrayed with a wonderful sense of dynamics. He has extended this to painted…

  • Heritage Illustration Auction Oct 13-14

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    Heritage Auctions, which showcases illustration more often than the high society auction houses, has an illustration auction in New York this weekend, October 13-14, 2012, that features some superb examples of Golden Age illustration. Here is the link for the online catalog, and the list of featured images (I’m not sure how long these links…

  • Eye Candy Bonus: J.C. Leyendecker on Tumblr

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    A collection of J.C. Leyendecker goodies on Tumblr. Contains a couple of non-Leyendecker items, but as of this writing, basically 9 pages of Golden Age of Illustration Eye Candy and counting. See my last post on J.C. Leyendecker for links to even more posts and lots of image resources. Is there such a thing as…

  • Mathew Borrett

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    Mathew Borrett is a Canadian illustrator and visual effects artist who works with architectural illustration and also creates wild and sometimes elaborate imagined structures, some underground, some in cityscapes. His underground structures, with their maze-like and Escher influenced explorations of divided space, may have grown out of his more traditional architectural subjects, some of which…

  • Jessie Willcox Smith

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    Jessie Willcox Smith was a prominent American illustrator from Philadelphia who studied at the School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where her instructors included Thomas Eakins. She began her career working in the production department of the Ladies’ Home Journal, but didn’t realize…

  • BibliOdyssey at 7

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    The amazing, fascinating, enlightening, bizarre and wonderful cornucopia of visual ephemera from books, periodicals and other sources known as BibliOdyssey recently turned 7. That means the rabbit hole goes even deeper. I’ll wish author peacay many happy returns, and if you get fascinated with this stuff the way I do, I’ll issue my Major Time…