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Category: Illustration

  • Elizabeth Traynor (update)

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    I first wrote about Elizabeth Traynor in a post in 2006, in which I expressed my admiration in particular for her scratchboard illustrations (and gave a brief description of the scratchboard process). In addition to her scratchboard work (images above, 1 & 4), her online portfolio also showcases her work in pen and ink, often…

  • More J.C. Leyendecker from Leif Peng and Roger Reed

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    Leif Peng, whose terrific blog Today’s Inspiration never fails to inform the mind and dazzle the eye, has recently published two posts on the great American Illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, adding to his already extensive posts on the subject: Leyendecker, Kuppenheimer, Arrow… and Beach and J.C. Leyendecker: “… a recluse locked in struggles of power and…

  • Russian vintage science illustration blog

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    When I was in my early teens, I spent many hours staring in goggle-eyed fascination at the illustrations in “science magazines”, like Popular Science, Popular Mechanics and Science and Mechanics, that depicted future tech. The illustrators created scenes of potential space missions and spacecraft, both actually proposed and wildly imaginative, fantastic airships, monorails, undersea cities…

  • Heritage Auctions

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    Heritage Auctions is an auction house that, like Sotheby’s, puts images of their items to be auctioned, notably including artworks, online in relatively high resolution. Unlike Sotheby’s (and Christie’s), Heritage doesn’t constrain its hi-res images to a zooming box; instead giving you a high res image that you can view as a whole. The tradeoff,…

  • Shy the Sun (update)

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    Back in 2006 I noticed the delightfully idiosyncratic work of a South African artist and illustrator named Ree Treweek (images above, top). In the time since, I have followed with fascination as Treweek and her partners Jannes Hendrikz and Marcus Smit, collectively known as The Blackheart Gang, produced a strikingly original and truly strange animation…

  • Edward Kwong

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    Canadian illustrator Edward Kwong studied at the Alberta School of Art and Design in Calgary, and is now based in Montreal. Kwong takes his affection for early 20th Century art movements like Cubism, Art Deco and Futurism and mixes them in the blender of his strong graphic design sensibilities, resulting in a delightful amalgam of…