Category: Illustration
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Women Painting Women
Women Painting Women is an excellent art blog featuring just what the title implies, women artists painting women as their subjects. The selections focus on contemporary artists working in the figurative tradition. The range of style and approach is nicely varied and the calibre of the work is consistently high. As much as I like…
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Into the Pixel
Into the Pixel is a yearly juried art exhibit showcasing concept and visual development art from the gaming industry. Sponsored by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences and the Entertainment Software Association, the exhibition is displayed at the E3 Expo. You can also view the selections from this year, as well as the past…
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JVJ Publishing
Classic illustration enthusiasts were dismayed a while back to learn of the apparent demise of Bud Plant Illustrated books, a long-time collaboration between Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. and Bud Plant that was a key source of out of print books about great classic illustrators and comics artists. The good news turned out to be that Vadeboncoeur…
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Dan Hipp
Illustrator and comics artist Dan Hipp has clients that include Real Simple, Wired, DC Comics, Image Comics and Random House. When not working on professional assignments, and/or training to survive the zombie apocalypse, Hipp fills his blog with his wonderfully colorful, energetic and in-your-face drawings of characters from comics, movies, games and other aspects of…
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Femke Hiemstra
Dutch artist Femke Hiemstra paints her richly detailed and wonderfully textural paintings of animals (anthropomorphic and otherwise), odd characters and fantastical landscapes on found objects. Her odd shaped “canvases” are the covers of old books, wooden holy water fonts and antique wooden panels. Her mixed media pieces also include typography, sometimes completing the illusion that…
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From Beasts to Babar: Ten Illustrators of Children’s Books
The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art in Colorado is presenting an exhibition titled From Beasts to Babar: Ten Illustrators of Children’s Books that features work by Bernie Fuchs, Maurice Sendak, Etienne Delessert, Gennady Spirin, Henrik Drescher and others. Unfortunately, the images on the gallery’s site are small, but even for those who can’t get to…